January 27,2020

January 27,2020

Blogging is addictive.  I stopped this one a few years back because I was convinced that no one was reading it.    The original purpose was to let the family know that we were ok and having fun when we retired and took to the road in a 10 year old  5th wheel, and no real destination in mind.  

To catch you up on the intervening years...

We lost our daughter to that bastard Cancer in 2016. 

We had a couple of inches of snow here in southern Texas in 2017.   It was pretty much gone at the end of the day, but it was exciting to see.  It happened on December 8th..I was hoping for a white Christmas but it didn't last much past the first day.

We  happily attended our grand daughter's wedding to a really terrific guy (except he beats me at cribbage) in 2018. The service was preformed by her brother ( our grandson,,,on the left in the photo).

And Neil had a couple of TIA's and a mild stroke 2019 but he is doing really well  with very few changes.

So now we are all up to date.  

We are still in southern Texas in the winter where a lot of sugar cane is grown.  When it is time to harvest the cane they set it on fire.  The cane is not harmed because the fire races thru and the plant is still live and green but the dry leaves, small animals and anything else is burned away.  

And this is what it looks like up close.  Notice  the amount of debris in the air.  That stuff rises up in the air until it cools, and then comes down as black cinders, often a good distance from the burning field.   Could that  be why we all have runny  noses and sinus problems?

How amazing is this beautiful arrangement of  feathers .  It's not only beautiful  but it allows a pelican to fly,  There are no mistakes in nature.....except that bastard cancer.

We found  a  collection of cartoons, truisms, and funny  stuff on Laurie's computer and I will include some in blogs from time to time because they make me laugh too.

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