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Yes, Christmas is approaching...:)
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Sandy Zalecki
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Thanks, this picture is a couple of years old, but I haven't changed that much. Still no gray hair or wrinkles. Good genes I guess. My dad died at 92 and my mom is going to be 90 next week. She still rides horses every day. She was a national champion horse back rider at 86. I also take some highly concentrated minerals every day the "control" the aging process. They don't stop the aging process, but they help minimize the effects of aging.Well, if your mirror is anything like the lady with jewelry in the avatar, you're not old...
Anyway, I hope you guys have a great Christmas, preparation or no preparation. For us, it takes us a long time to do our Christmas card list. (We haven't gone completely over to email, yet...)
Blessings.
We are going to be with friends a family for Christmas. I have a sister from another mother that just moved into a different home and she wants to show it off this Christmas.
Sandy Zalecki
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You guys are just too cold. We will probably be 70 degrees for Christmas. I have seen one white Christmas in the last 30 years. A couple of years ago a freak snow storm came through New Mexico and we had a white Christmas. I loved it but everyone else was just complaining about it.Ha! Are you from Windsor? Hey, we could do lunch sometime neighbor
farouk
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Sounds like your mother is a remarkable lady...
Hope you guys have a great Christmas, anyhow (not quite there just yet...)
Blessings.
Danacovert82
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I used to hate Christmas with a passion, because it made me sad that people were using it for commercialism. But, I love it now because I have a niece, and 2 nephews to think about. So, it's my favourite holiday of the year.
farouk
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Yes, a great reason for commemorating it.
Always, the truth of the Incarnation is not far behind (John 1.14).
Jethro Bodine
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If the temp doesn't get below 40 degrees...it ain't Christmas. Just a sad, pathetic substitute.
Jethro Bodine
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It's all about the kids isn't it?
(By the way.....anyone get me that 'Burn Notice' DVD set yet?)
Danacovert82
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Yes, it sure is about the kids. It is about seeing their faces light up when they open their presents, and, enjoy them. I love Christmas music for some reason too.
Jethro Bodine
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I like Christmas music too.
Hey, got a new siggy for ya:
"I can do all things through Christmas which strengthen me." JethroBodine 4:13
Sandy Zalecki
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True, but you get used to putting Christmas lights on cactus and playing outdoor games for Christmas. To me one of the most beautiful sites on Christmas is seeing a saguaro cactus all lit up. I like it kind of cold, but I lived in North Dakota for awhile when I was in the Air Force and that's a different kind of cold.
Jethro Bodine
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Lived in Florida for twenty years...we got used to the fake Christmas's there, lol.
What all the transplants did who lived there was turn the air conditioning down to sixty something and fired up the fireplace at Christmas time.
Well, I actually can get a visual of this. I lived in Clovis, NM for almost two years. At least it got cold there.
Minot, right? I've been out of the AF for a long time and I think I remember that's the name of that northern tier base. I was stationed at K.I. Sawyer in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Farouk calls those two places his summer vacation spots, lol.
Sandy Zalecki
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No, it was Grand Forks. I hated to cold there so when I got out I moved to Arizona for 23 years. When I married my husband we decided to move to New Mexico. We both love to live in the country and Phoenix was getting a little crowded. Greg also couldn't handle the heat. He would get heat rashes all over his body. Where we live now is higher than Phoenix so it is 10 to 15 degrees cooler. It snows here every winter but rarely stays on very long.
I don't know where Farouk lives, but Upper Michigan doesn't seem like a summer destiny to me. New Mexico is a beautiful state as far as I am concerned.
I don't know where Farouk lives, but Upper Michigan doesn't seem like a summer destiny to me. New Mexico is a beautiful state as far as I am concerned.
Jethro Bodine
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Oh yeah, forgot about Grand Forks. We didn't make that the butt of our jokes. Prolly why I didn't remember it.
Farouk lives in Canada, so anything in the lower 48 is a southern vacation spot to him (isn't everything relative in this life?)
And yes, New Mexico is a beautiful state. If I had been a little more mature, and made about 10,000 more dollars a year (I was an 'airmen no striper' when I got there in 1983) I could have enjoyed my stay there better. Instead I whined and grumbled until I swapped assignments and went to K.I. Sawyer AFB.
Do you think when we celebrate God's birthday in heaven, he'll make it snow?
Sandy Zalecki
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It is a beautiful state. That is why they call it the "Land of Enchantment." I remember the days when I was a no stripper. The pay was nothing. And you came in after Regan gave raises to the military. I went in the 1978 when Carter was in office. He didn't care about the military and we were not making much at all. Regan raised everybody's salaries by 20% or something like that in 1981. By that time I was a Senior Airman so I was making a pretty good salary.
Why not Minot? Even in Grand Forks Minot was the brunt of jokes.
farouk
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Well, Buffalo, NY is kind of good for shopping trips...
Like between Christmas and New Year...
Jethro Bodine
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By the time my enlistment was ending and I made E-4 the pay was actually pretty good. It gave even me a glancing notion to reenlist. But then there was the prospect of an unaccompanied overseas tour. Wasn't interested. This was before all the Gulf stuff and the military was a job, not so much an adventure.
While all my buddies were buying computers, VCR's, and VW's (ah, the 80's, lol) my wife and I were saving our money to get out of the military. When that rolled around we went to Florida where my family moved while I was in (they couldn't hide, I found them). We had $4,000.00 saved and bought a house and stayed there twenty years...and along the way added three more kids to the one we had in NM.
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