This afternoon, my husband and I took a walk around our neighborhood. Leaves were still falling while some people were out decorating their front yard with colored lights and wooden Santa's. Others were washing their cars, mowing their grass, and raking up leaves mixed with now-rotted pecans the squirrels had refused to eat or store away. I mean, heck, they don't need many considering it was 80 degrees and already the second day in December! They've already stored-up the warm tree-trunk holes, but continue to lay out on the limbs to stay cool.
We were both born in south Louisiana, lived there for many years, and moved eight years ago to southeast Texas, yet we are still amazed every year around this time when we are running our A/C's full blast while playing Christmas music on our CD player! I mean, who can bake cookies and feel like singing,"White Christmas" when it is probably 100 degrees (or more) in the kitchen?
Okay, so we aren't freezing like the elves on the North Pole, or blowing away snow drifts ten feet high from our front door. And we are less than ten minutes from our local beach. Many would trade places with us, especially when we get to keep our power on all "winter" since the possibility of an ice storm is near zero.
It could be that we're really blessed to live in the south.Our sandy beach still looks inviting, rather like a sort of "warm" snow don't you think? Horses and Horseback riders are enjoying the sun and breezes are welcome since they aren't freezing our noses off.
"Yep", as we say sometimes in the south, "maybe everything ain't so bad after all."
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Blessings,
Sandra R Cutrer
MERRY CHRISTMAS
Isiah 9:6 "Unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and his name shall be called... THE MIGHTY GOD...
