Family Traditions . . .


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First off, Jan and I want thank everyone for their many Christmas Wishes. We hope ya’ll had a really nice Christmas and have a great New Year!




Finishing up last night’s visit to the Houston Magical Winter Light’s, we got here about 6pm and found it even more amazing close up, starting off with these two lovely ladies.

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The whole area is made of these ‘set’ pieces, with many different themes.

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Jan especially liked the dinosaurs which are about 50 feet tall,

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as well as this Chinese dragon.

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Police vehicles tow a detached car axle on a highway.

The detail on these is just fantastic.

The lights and decorations here are really something, and well worth a visit. Besides the lights they have a complete carnival ride area for the kids.

It’s open through January 2nd.

The only suggestion I could make is that it would be nice if they scattered more benches around other than in the ride area. Us old folks would appreciate it.




This morning we were on the road about 9:15 heading up to Katy and Brandi and Lowell’s.

Brandi has two trees, this smaller one at the front door,

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and this larger one in the livingroom. Somehow I forgot to turn on the lights before I got the photo.

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The cute redheads are Zoe and Zander, Lowell’s niece and nephew, who are here with their mother Grace from San Diego. The cute blonde, of course, is Miss Piper.

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Landon’s showing off his Magformers with a heart he made, kind of like large Legos, but they’re magnetic.

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The Christmas dinner spread was as delicious as usual, and bountiful enough that there was plenty for everyone to take home.

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This was Landon’s big gift, a Nuvison 10 Duo Draw.

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It’s a 10†Windows 10 laptop with a touchscreen that you can drawing on with a stylus. Plus the screen detaches for use as a tablet just like the Microsoft Surface Pro. Brandi got a really great deal on it from Costco.

I ended up bringing it home with me to finish setting up. Since it was several months old, it’s got hours of updates to download and then finished setting up.  Landon was OK with it since he has so much other stuff.

Tomorrow’s going to be a nice stay at home recuperation day, that we’re really looking forward. Then it’s back to work on Wednesday.



The Word of the Day is:  Vespertine



Thought for the Day:
  

“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. – Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)


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