Hi Friends!
Long time, no hear, right?
I just got back from a long Thanksgiving weekend in Nacogdoches a few hours ago. It didn't feel particularly long. By that I mean that I wasn't sitting at Mom and Dad's house wishing I could leave. I always have a great time at my parents house. I think I must have a lot in common with them. For Thanksgiving itself, the entire family was there except for Matt, Melissa and Oliver. Oliver is only a few weeks old, so he is just too young to do a lot of traveling yet. I haven't been able to see him in person yet. But the pictures are adorable.
Jacob and Jeni were there with little Joseph Tex Meyers their newest addition. He is adorable and probably still seeing blue spots from all the flashes that were going off in his proximity. He is just a little over 2 months old and the "new" hasn't wore off of him yet. He's still of an age where you just want to smell his head and squeeze him when you hold him. Although his Mom and Dad would probably not approve of the squeezing part.
After Thanksgiving, Mom and I put their Christmas tree up on Friday. Then Saturday we did a little shopping followed by a rousing game of Moon at the kitchen table for me, Mom and Dad. Then I came on back home Sunday. Before I even came back to my house Sunday I went to Lowe's to purchase a new refrigerator. I have been pricing them and reading reviews for weeks. I got what I think was a good deal on one from Lowe's. It won't be delivered for a few weeks. But I'm in no hurry. I need to find a new home for my current refrigerator in the meantime. I'm hoping that a nephew will take it. But if that doesn't happen, perhaps one of my faithful readers is in need of a beer fridge. It's a good one! It has never given me any trouble in 17 years! It's nothing fancy. Just a bottom fridge with a top freezer and an icemaker in the freezer if you have a hook up. It's a Magic Chef. Back when I bought it in 1996 it was the cheapest one they had with an icemaker at Circuit City in Tyler.
The cats are happy to see me home. Although, I don't know if they missed me too much while I was gone. Their catsitter plays all kinds of game with them. Then just to keep me buttered up so that I wouldn't be too upset about not being missed, she got me a plant and planted it in an empty flower pot on my front porch! I spent half an hour looking for something that had been broken. But no breakage, just a really nice petsitter. Maybe I've been tipping her too much....
My new project is going to be scheduling a family photographer for the day after Christmas. We are going to have the entire Meyers clan here in Dallas on the day after Christmas for a big family photo and it would seem that I am in charge of the picture. I will tell you that this has not been easy for anyone. My sister-in-law, Eileen and I have been trying to arrange this for a while. We have differing opinions on what makes a good family photo. She seems to feel that everyone should be dressed similarly. I think that if we do that, in 10 years strangers will be passing our photo around on the internet laughing their butts off at us. (When the people being photographed range in weight from 10 lbs to 300 lbs, the attire that makes them look good, or even presentable, can be quite different.) Otherwise, we agree on most aspects of this.
Going forward, I have Donny and Marie tickets for this Wednesday night and my friend who was supposed to go had to cancel on me. So, we'll see if I end up at a Donny and Marie concert alone on Wednesday. I'm thinking the kind of single man I meet at this concert won't be one that I am interested in a long term relationship with. (Don't start with me, Katherine!) Well you guys have a great week and I'll try to be in touch a little more often in the next few weeks.
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