Dec 27

Good morning everyone! Kathleen - I am sorry about your Molley. I wonder if is something about the date. We lost our border collie, Jenny, 5 years ago yesterday when the UPS driver hit her with his truck. Yesterday a.m. dh found that Blondie, our nanny goat, aborted her triplets. They were about a month early. We could hear her crying for the kids several times during the day.

Kathy Jo - that is so funny about the wrapping paper. My sister's in-laws do a "white elephant" exchange. We have been trying to do something like that for several years as all we ever do is just exchange gift certificates. My dh did open his box and it was full of peanuts. He thought that was all he had gotten but my brother-in-law had buried a gift certificate.

I forgot to tell you all how well dd did at the cattle show on Saturday that I was grumbling about last week She won the overall show. I think we are still in shock as there were some big names there with some big money cattle. DD said her steer looked "awesome" and even behaved himself. She won a really nice jacket and $$ jackpot. So yesterday she had to spend some of that money. Guess what she bought? She bought a propane tank water heater for her cows on the corn stalks so that we don't have to go over every day and bust ice. She did order herself a nice necklace in the shape of a steer. She had one several years ago and the clasp broke and she lost it. So yesterday we did some post Christmas shopping for some bargains (talk about a bunch of crabbie people) and then went in search of the heater. We bought a Broyhill versus a Trojan heater based on several recommendations. They hooked it up yesterday afternoon. Although the temp is suppposed to be in the 30's today.

Well need to go - we have to take dd's Explorer to the Ford dealership this a.m. to have some recall work done to the hatch.

Hope you all have a good day!