2010...it's here!

Happy New Year everyone.
It's now 2010. Hard to believe.
Why I remember way back in the 1950's I never dreamed of seeing the year 2000...and here I am sitting at the computer [which I also never dreamed of back then long ago]...in a new year, ten years into the new millennium. When someone would lightly say "Wait 'til you're 50."...which meant the year 2000 to me.....Holy crap!

For a few posts, I'm going to be playing catch up with all that's been going on around here. After I read a meme question about 'do you go to the neighborhood and drive around looking at the lights for Christmas'...I answered 'we have, but haven't in a long time'---on Christmas Eve we made a special trip to an area in town that has over 200 homes within the neighborhood....all with lights galore!! This one in the photo was my absolute favorite. They even had 'fake snow blankets' all over the yard, with blue lights, icy looking and snowmen and penguins, and of course santa. But lordy, what a beautiful sight we had that night!! It took us nearly an hour driving around each and every street and cul de sac. Today, I thought I'd share my Christmas gifts received....Our son, Erik, will arrive shortly and be 'til early Sunday. I hope the holiday season found you filled with happiness we all deserve---being that it was a most trying decade for the world [I believe...my opinion of course]. And I hope, if you observe, that Santa was good to you. Around here I got a few surprises; always good surprises. From wonderful blogging friends, I received several Christmas cards in snail mail...all so very beautiful. And from online friends, from years of friendship behind our belts, we exchanged small tokens of our lasting friendships. I got a beautiful cardinal tapestry [as a 'pay it forward', which I think I failed to mention...sorry Mary!!] that now is hanging next to the cardinal print she sent me last year!...and a wonderful lovely and fragile glass ornament from overseas; from a dear dear friend---to mention just a couple. Santa and family members---well, they left me jewelry, a book about Mary Todd Lincoln and her slave, a DVD of such a fabulous movie...Ice Age the Meltdown. Another Jim Shore Santa [this one he's on a Polar Bear], a 2nd piece done by Jim Shore...an ornament for the tree...it's two-sided. Scrooge [awesome!]. And to add to another of my collections, an audio Gone With the Wind ornament -but I take the 'hanger' off and have them sitting around all year in the master bedroom- this one this year, it's with the infamous scene "Rhett, what'll I do...where'll I go?" "Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn."









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For Bud, he got a lot of necessities from me. LOL Like underwear and socks and of course books...oh, his love of books!! Then, I finally found a peacoat for my old salt!! He's always wanted one...had one when he was in the Navy years ago, and of course out-grew it once he started having home cooked meals each and every night. LOL. I thought, since we've been having some nasty cold, damp, days, instead of him wearing his expensive leather jacket to the beach, get him a peacoat. I swear the man was very happy!! He's like a little school boy...not wanting to take it off. Ol' Anni did good this year. But, really, it fits his Navy personality and looks! He is a seaman at heart!! Now all I need to do is find him a cream colored turtle neck and have him start smoking a pipe again....and I could call him Ahab!!! Or Captain...or something! Read origins of the pea-jacket [pijjjakker] HERE. PS--while standing in line at the bank the other day, the guy next to him offered him 'big bucks' for his coat...Bud, he wouldn't part with it. Fool!!!

"The name “pea coat” comes from either the Dutch or Frisian word 'pijjjakker' or 'pijjecker', which 'pij' refers to the type of coarse cloth that the jackets were made from."

Posted: Friday, January 1st, 2010
4:15 a.m.