twenty-one

every good and perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights... 

- james 1:17

it's been good. i still do. gimme more.

feliz navidad

i'll say this.

it's one week into december and i've contracted a full blown case of christmas carol fatigue. enough already, please!!! 

christmas shopping

time was when you went to the store to buy their gift card. these days my neighborhood grocer's has a couple of aisles' worth of competitors' gift cards for my spending pleasure. copping out on the cop-out gift, that's wot i say, and that's wot i've done.

tempus fugit

J1 calls from camp. training is starting to wind down for the year. how quickly time has passed, he says. his father laughs. only to you, HOM tells him. to me it passes slowly enough, as i ask God for your safety daily.

and yet, i suppose it has passed quickly enough too. almost a year down, with cadet school almost over, and he's still hanging on. reason enough for thanksgiving.

sign of times

gettin' cold these days.

a day in Dog's life

8 p.m. to 2p.m.

sleep

2 p.m.

lunch
wait for J2

greet J2 wildly on her return from school
wait for walk

4:30 p.m. to 6:30  p.m.

walk

wait for HOM to return

greet HOM wildly on his return

wait desperately for treat

6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m.

get treat

haunt the dinner table

evening ablutions

8 p.m.

repeat (vide supra)

room service on demand

personal butler included

whoever said it's a dog's life in a commiserating tone of voice

clearly was not a pet dog owner 

in the twenty-first century.

ready for christmas

here's Dog, all freshly groomed

in his new bed

and as ready as he's going to get.

looking ahead

countdown to year's end:

advent calendar begins

caroling practice

shopping!

snow shovels!

stock-piling!

there is a depressing regularity about how consistently the final two items make their appearance annually. to think that in texas we actually welcomed snow days.

techncal glitch

stickykeys on acccount of heglass of cranerry juice OM upended over the keyboard.

december!

first seasonal frost this morning. my poor fingers are still numb from the school run. was it for this i welcomed the cold weather?