Posted on 11/30/2009 9:30:13 PM PST by JustAmy
I’m wondering if we’ll really get snow tonight and tomorrow!
Love it! So funny!
Thank you, Megs!
Very pretty, Billie.
I rushed to get Christmas ready and I’m not rushing to take it down. I will leave it up a couple more days I guess, even though it is nice to get it overwith! Just think! Spring is on the way, even though its 26 here tonight...very cold!
Amazing...(after I found it)! My eyes deceived me for a few minutes!
Oh My, Polly. What do they say about raining and pouring? It sounds like it has started pouring at your house.
Things have been pretty calm here since Christmas. I’m enjoying a day of playing. :)
I still have laundry to do but I’m not going to rush LOL
Hope the rest of your Monday is relaxing.
Pretty little bird, Meg!
:)
This is just beautiful too, Meg. And your Sunday opening looked wonderful! I’m glad you could use it!
I was surprised to wake up Thursday morning to a (thin) blanket of snow! It’s been a cold West Texas this year so far!
The Fates are Cruel
Black the moon and black the night
as the highwayman rode into sight
His pistols were charged with shot
his rapier at his side if they fought
The mail coach upon darkened road
the driver feared this robber so bold
The passengers felt unease within
each’s anger at the highwayman’s sin
The deed was quickly done, gathered swift
and as the coach pulled off spirits did lift
The highwayman laughed at the take this night
until he sudden saw a most forbidding sight
There upon a horse sat a silent figure with a gun
‘Drop the money and ride, or never see the sun’
A moment’s surprise and a sudden move stark
the gun blast in the chill of night a bitter bark
Down he fell, the highwayman, his horse it ran
he died there upon the cold ground mortal man
The killer took bagged jewels and turned to go
when over the ridge the King’s troops did flow
The chase was wild, through the night so dark
winding among the trees of the King’s park
One chance to make it, or lose it all tonight
and so they raced, through the ebon night
A wild race amid the trees, as the killer did flee
a wild shot among so many that night it be
A burning pain, a soulful moan aloud as they fell
the thundering troops overrode the figure in the dell
the killer staggered up, raced into the woods to hide
and dodged them with a King’s bullet in his side
Long the hunt and great the pain of the struggle so
and as dawn approached, the killer was feeling low
In the gloom the figure fell, the strength now, ban
laying on the body of the now dead highwayman
Too weak to move, they realized all was lost
now the killer understood, the deed’s final bitter cost
There they found them both in a last morbid embrace
both had run the last of their mortal coil’s race
The highwayman no longer to suffer life’s strife
and the last bitter sigh of his once loving wife
Mrsd called this afternoon and her dad had the stent procedure done this morning and everything is going fine. They brought him a chocolate milk shake to enjoy - first “food” he’s been able to consume since Thanksgiving.
It was a surprise! It would have been more fun if it had happened on Christmas day, but at least it melted quickly! :D
I'm one of those who starts taking down Christmas the minute the last guest leaves. Sometimes that's just the day AFTER Christmas but I'm ready to put the house back in order. It still takes a couple of days to get everything put away, but I don't rest much until it's done! :)
Me too, Billie, absolutely! I have mixed emotions after Christmas. So much fun being together with family, after working so hard to get ready and then boom, its all over. And things don't look too pretty after Christmas but guess I just dread getting it done! After its done though, I feel a lot better!
Gosh, I have a lot of pretty Christmas posts I didn't get to use...not enough time! LOL!
Amazing graphic, Yorkie.
Thank you for finding and posting it.
Good evening, DD.
So happy to hear that your FIL is doing fine after the procedure. I can imagine how happy he was to get that milk shake.
I’m keeping him and your family in my prayers.
I hope we get some rain tonight or tomorrow.
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