Mother and Edith

Another shot from the day after Christmas gathering. Mother is decked out in her new Ho Ho stuff and Edith is being an outstanding friend and relative as she talks with her! Hey, if you are going to be 90 in Feb. You can also find folks to sit with you at a party!

STORM!

How odd, December and 70 bigunns this afternoon. Tonight the storm stuff started beeping on the network TV and around dark here it came! Wild wind and all sorts of stupidity normally reserved for May! Gone now and all is at rest in the Rockford Bunker!

Family 26th of Dec

On the 26th the family got together at Stephens new home in Knoxville to see his digs, tell stories and enjoy the day after the day.

First Cuz SM and Loretta listened to something from someone that I am sure was riveting!

Great dang time was had by all!!

GOLF BALL GIFT

Cause I love to hit golf balls hard as heck and when I do they often disappear either into some rich fellows back yard or the woods I buy these things call WHITE GOLF BALLS! Tonight (Christmas night) Newton (guy with the T on his shirt) gave me two doz. ULTRA golf balls! By gosh I will now leave the big birtha in the bag and use the 3 wood so they will stay in the short grass! Soon as the knees (got one in a brace and the other is now big from a fall yesterday"don't ask") are working we shall head up to laurel Valley (beautiful short track with fareways tighter than dick's hat band) and I will proceed to loose all of these great ULTRAS!.

Great Christmas dawg!

This is the puppy that made it back to TN from Arkansas! Dang thing was having a very good Ho Ho evening and got more than a few ear scratches!

Christmas night visit

HELL of a nice break from the TV and home! Hills was in from Arkansas and a great time was had by all, little too soon on the departure, but still it was a holiday get-to-gether that has been going on for decades and tonight's was great!

OK I know it is cheese

but anyone with a dig-cam has thought about it. Stick it up to a K-Mart ball on the tree and take a dang picture! Well bro, there it is!

MAN IT WAS GOOD

and then there was meat!

MERRY MOLLY!

What a great Yule!!! Lots of papers and both dogs got into the act to the point where Molly went bunker on all of us! Smart dawg!

Forrest creature likeness.....

Carved from a long dead (of natural causes) gift from Mamma Tree, the happy smiling northern endangered creature would like to wish you and yours a very merry ...................



CHRISTMAS!!!!

Soon to be re-cycled

The forrest gifts, soon to be re-cycled back to Mamma Earth, are resting above the non polluting natural heating source

Hearth prep!

The red SEASONAL flower is in place!

Ready!

The NON-DENOMINATIONAL shrub is covered in PC ornamentation!

Everything has a gender

This rabbit and this bird both have a gender, can you tell which is which?

You may not know this but many nonliving things have a gender.
1) spills Bags are Male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.
2) Copiers are Female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again. It's an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can wreak havoc if the wrong buttons are pushed.
3) A Tire is Male, because it goes bald and it's often over-inflated.
4) A Hot Air Balloon is Male, because, to get it to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under it, and of course, there's the hot air part.
5) Sponges are Female, because they're soft, squeezable and retain water.
6) A Web Page is Female, because it's always getting hit on.
7) A Subway is Male, because it uses the same old lines to pick people up.
8) An Hourglass is Female, because over time, the weight shifts to the bottom.
9) A Hammer is Male, because it hasn't changed much over the last 5,000 years, but it's handy to have around.
10) A Remote Control is Female. Ha! You thought it'd be male , didn't you? But consider this - it gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know the right buttons to push, he keeps trying!

Evening visit

Mother and I dropped by Daddy's grave last night to say hello and noticed his mother and father had wreaths. Naturally we made a fast run into town, found a better looking one and put it on his grave this morning. We would have put it on last night but as you can see from the picture, night caught us.

It was SO COLD THIS MORNING...

IT WAS SO COLD THIS MORNING:
It was so cold...hitchhikers were holding up pictures of thumbs!

the squirrels in the park were throwing themselves at an electric fence!

Starbucks was serving coffee on a stick!

we had to chop up the piano for firewood - but we only got two chords

the beagles had to put jumper cables on the rabbits!

terrorists started to stockpile weapons-grade hot chocolate!

the politicians had their hands in their OWN pockets!

Pamela Anderson was downgraded from "hot" to "tepid".

we had to push the house down the street to jump-start the furnace!

everyone wanted to make antifreeze - so we hid her woolly pajamas!

a man stumbled into the coffee shop and yelled "Perk me!"

I tried to take the garbage out - but it didn't want to go!

Great wireless security system!

How To install a wireless security system:

Go to a second-hand store, buy a pair of men's used work boots, a really big pair.
Put them outside your front door on top of a copy of Guns and Ammo magazine.
Put a dog dish beside it. A really big dish.
Leave a note on your front door that says something like, "Bubba,big Mike and I done gone to get more ammunition - back in 1/2 hour.

Don't disturb the Pitbulls, they just been wormed."

CHRISTMAS IS DANG NEAR HERE

CHRISTMAS is close, the Maryville Trees are all lighted and the dogs have mailed their santa letters!

The WALL

FIFTY years ago my Daddy (in the south we call our father that even after they are 6 years gone) and I built this wall across the back of our yard. The bricks came from a building he owned downtown that was knocked down when I was but a gleam in my parent's eye. The brick has to be close to 90+ years old and not a drop of cement was used to hold it in place. The tribe that lived behind our house thought best to sell out and naturally the buyer is crowding 4 houses on the land. SO, John England and his son were hired to take down the wall and stack it close to the house. Shame to see it go, but truth is it is anything but gone, just preserved! Here is the last picture of it and the COOL thing was, John told me he had to use a tire iron to dig the foundation bricks out of the earth! Daddy flat ass put them in to stay! Naturally I had a talk with him (again a southern thing you won't understand) about taking them up and his thoughts were that taking it down was better than having some strangers cart them and sell them. Bless his heart it is sad to see it gone, but man he was so smart to bless the removal!

Denver looks to the west

Denver loves to watch the sun go down and when I told him that was the direction the Maryville High team was traveling to win the state on Saturday he really got excited!

MHS wins AGAIN, over the Memphis guys and on Friday Alcoa became a state champion. Blount County has more than a little to be excited about.


Also seeing LSU take it on the chin was just outstanding! I have no use for those people and even thought it was GA that beat them, it was just GREAT to see them GO DOWN! Time now to get ready for Coach Pearl and the NEW UT BB VOLS!