12/7/14-My Festive Weekend

On Friday, I woke up bright eyed and full of energy.  I had forgotten what it feels like to have so many good days in a row!  I could get used to this!

However, as you can tell from the picture, Nonni and Bentley weren't too happy.  Look at their poor little faces as I make them get up so I can make the bed.  Nonni is yawning!  But don’t feel bad for them… they each have two (2!) of their own beds in the living room.  You’d think I was sending them to the salt mines.  LOL.

They got happy though once we settled on the deck and they got to watch the sun come up while mama worked.

I love when I can get up early in the morning while all is quiet…. except for the sounds of nature.  In addition to Nonni snoring, I could hear birds of different feathers, horses, chickens, roosters and cows.  It was a wonderful way to start the day.  It’s not a very good pic but this is a Woodpecker (blue arrow) dive bombing a Cardinal (red arrow) on my feeder.

I worked all day and got a lot done.  It felt great.  I didn’t make it to the Goliad Lighted Christmas Parade that evening, but I made it to the Christmas Market Days on Saturday.  All vendors had to offer handmade goods.  It was quite fun.

Christmas on the Square

Did you see the 1988 movie, Funny Farm, with Chevy Chase and Madolyn Smith Osbourne? Well, an old-fashioned Christmas in Goliad feels a little like that, sans the snow.  I didn’t stay long, so I missed the bands and evidently the longhorns (cattle not football), but the town and the vendors and the people and the carolers…. Well, it was perfect.  And on the way home I stopped at a yard sale and got a hammock w/stand for $5!!! Awe-some!!!