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2019 November 12 Tuesday

2019 November 12 Tuesday in Liberty Hill, Texas

ep! Feels like 14°. That’s cold enough. I understand that you may be reading this from somewhere that WISHES it would WARM UP to 14°, but trust me on this … it is cold enough!

unrise, as viewed from my deck.

iew OF my deck. It doesn’t show well in the photo, but it is coated with 1/4″ of ice. I hung onto the handrails, even though they were also coated with ice.

e had so much snow that it formed drifts in my upside down camping chairs. Grin.

or some unfathomable reason it was a slow day at the Santa set … as well as the rest of the mall.

arrived home before dark, but not before sunset.God bless and g’nite.

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Day 43 in our Texas home

2019 November 11 Monday Veterans Day

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2019 November 11 Monday – Veterans Day- in Liberty Hill, Texas

t looked fine in the morning, but hang on to your hat (literally) ’cause the times they are a changin’. It reached the high of 69° early on and then started to tumble toward that predicted low. By the time I was off work at 4:30 the temperature was at 36° and the wind was whipping around pretty good. I arrived home about 5:45 and the temperature was 33° that felt like 21°. There was an Emmaus meeting inn Leander that we had planned to attend but changed our minds. High, gusty wind, darkness, twisted hilly roads, rain, and below freezing; all added up to a bad night to be on the road.

This is Santa’s domain at Lakeline Mall.

Sorry that nearly all of the post is about the weather, but that is what’s happening in our lives today.

God bless and g’nite.

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Day 42 in our Texas home

2019 November 10 Sunday

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2019 November 10 Sunday in Liberty Hill, Texas

little warmth for today before we take another dive beneath the freezing line.

ood news though, we will not be remaining below freezing. It’ll just be a couple of nights.

ore good news, the sun came out from under the clouds today. Hello, Sunshine, where’ve ya been?

astor John Saint’s sermon for today was taken from the same section of scripture (Luke 20:27-38) that will post tomorrow on my Musings Devotions blog. He titled his “God of the Living” and my devotion is titled “My Father’s Business”. This should be posted by 5 a.m. Monday November 11, 2019.

God bless and g’nite.

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Day 41 in our Texas home

2019 November 09 Saturday

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2019 November 09 Saturday in Liberty Hill, Texas

The view from my deck

he sun, like a bride on her wedding day, is attempting to peek through a veil. Unfortunately, the truth behind the haze is less poetic. “Our skies will be hazy on Friday in Austin, due to smoke from agricultural fires burning in southern Mexico and Central America. Leaves of sugar cane are set on fire to make it easier to harvest. Winds bring the smoke into Central Texas each year.“ (source, KVUE)

Santa has begun receiving letters. Here are some examples.

s you can see, some letters are pact tight on two pages, others want interesting things like poopy slime. Some letters from very good boys only want candy and Smashbrothers. Some children leave cutouts of their desires. Other leave messages that only the elves can read.

really want to get some photos of the Santa set at the mall. However, Santa isn’t allowed to have his phone/camera on the set. I may have to arrive much earlier and get some photos before the mall opens.

fter work, I once again, stopped at the pharmacy to get the rest of Ella’s medications that weren’t ready yesterday. One was ready, one they were “working on”, and one will not be available until November 16.

found another WordPress blog that y’all might want to check out, darylmadden. He writes short inspirational poems.

God bless and g’nite.

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Day 40 in our Texas home

2019 November 08 Friday

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2019 November 08 Friday in Liberty Hill, Texas

t appears that the sky has gone into reruns or instant replay. Maybe God got a special deal on grey sky paint. Dark and dreary isn’t my favorite color scheme.

raffic was backed up on 332 loop and hiway 29 this morning. It took half an hour to go 4 miles to get out of Liberty Hill. Whereas it only took 6 minutes to go the 6 miles into Liberty Hill. Without traffic snarls it should only take 40 minutes or less to drive the 25 miles to the mall where I will be visiting with children (of all ages) from today through Christmas Eve.

he gate was down and locked this morning when I arrived at the staging area for the Santa set.

sat and watched the mall walkers make their circuits until the set manager arrived to let me in to change into my alter ego, Santa. Just as Superman is his true self and Clark Kent is the disguise, Tom Williams is my disguise.

nlike Superman, I don’t wear my Santa suit under my everyday clothes. Also, it takes me longer to change than it does for Clark. Here is my changing room and my suits. Come to think about it, it does look a little like the stock room at the Daily Planet.

had a fun day asst the mall, as I always do. How could I not have fun with the love that Santa gets and gives spill day long!

n the way home I made a stop art the Wal-Mart pharmacy tho purchase Ella’s medication. Two of the four were ready today and the other two should be ready tomorrow. Looks like I’ll be stopping again tomorrow.

hen I arrived home Ella had supper ready and on the table. Barbecued ribs, herbed potatoes, peas, and biscuits. Nice! Particularly since I left before breakfast and didn’t have a lunch break.

God bless and g’nite.

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Day 39 in our Texas home

2019 November 07 Thursday

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2019 November 07 Thursday in Liberty Hill, Texas

t had been raining for several hours by the time I got out of bed for the last time.

ook how bright and festive the tables at Over the Hill Gang were this morning. Table clothes and small vases with flowers in Fall colors must be decorations for the coming Thanksgiving.

43 people braved the rain to come for chicken today.

ots of games were played. Canasta, Mexican Train. 84, and Bridge(?).

n the way home we stopped at the physicians office so that Ella could leave a specimen to determine if she needed additional medications or to stop taking them.God bless and g’nite.

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Day 38 in our Texas home

2019 November 06 Wednesday

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2019 November 06 Wednesday in Liberty Hill, Texas

t appears that next Monday’s weather is going to be a fun ride! If you like sliding downhill into freezing temperatures.

Meanwhile, today is beginning to look a lot like yesterday. The sky is full of dirty gray wool. Later, If you had looked out my window at 2:30 in the afternoon, you would have seen that the sky became brighter, but still full of wool. Maybe freshly laundered wool?

Grandies gathered at the Over the Hill Gang building again this morning. We mailed a handful of get well cards, did a rollcall to find out what is happening in the lives of our members, their family and friends. Then we celebrated the birthdays for the month of November by eating some goodies. We had a devotion title “Radical Love”. Then settled in to play some cards.

Choir practice went well tonight. With this coming Sunday being Veterans’ Day weekend, we have spoke special patriotic music.

God bless and g‘nite.

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Day 37 in our Texas home

2019 November 05 Tuesday

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2019 November 05 Tuesday in Liberty Hill, Texas

he high for today it’s predicted to bee not much warmer than the low (65) this morning or the predicted low tonight (63).

his is what sunrise looked like. As a matter of fact, this is what most of the day looked like.We spent our morning asst the Georgetown senior center. At 10:30 they fired up the big bingo machine and we played bingo for about an hour before lunch (chicken fried steak, mashed potato w/gravy, asparagus, and garlic cheese bread)

e stopped at Goodwill and purchased a second soft-sided tote bag on wheels. We bought the red one last week with the idea of using it as a laundry bag. It worked well, however our wasn’t large enough. So today we also purchased the blue one.

e came home and gathered up our dirty clothes then went to the laundromat.

he sun was already low in the sky at 4 pm and shining golden on the trees.

unset was much more beautiful and awe inspiring than our grey sunrise.God bless and g‘nite.

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Day 36 in our Texas home

2019 November 04 Monday

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2019 November 04 Monday in Liberty Hill, Texas

53° to start the day and reached 78° shortly after noon.

oday we went to visit Adam at school. He has been telling his class that his dad is Santa. So when we walked into the cafeteria the kids started yelling, “Santa!” and waving.

n the way home we stopped at Wal-Mart to pick up my prescription. However, they had no record of it. The doctor told us Friday they he had sent the prescription to the pharmacy.

eyond that, nothing important happened.

. God bless and g‘nite.

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Day 35 in our Texas home

2019 November 03 Sunday

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2019 November 03 Sunday in Liberty Hill, Texas

he sun made it over the horizon before disappearing into a cloud bank.

Hey look, it didn’t drop into the freezing zone overnight.

ven though the graph indicates that I went back to sleep, I did not. I was awake at four, which makes sense because I normally wake at five and this was the night when daylight savings ended and the clocks were set back a hour. However, my internal “clock” didn’t reset.Pastor Saint’s sermon on Luke 19:1-10 was titled “”

group of us went to the Cotton Patch for lunch after church and Sunday school

received a “Like” on one of my posts from another WordPress blogger named Seolin Jung. Out of courtesy and curiosity I visited his blog and was delighted to find a short story titled “Canvas Without Stars”. His little story made me smile. One of the things that I really like about our site at Stocktank RV Park is the view of the night sky. I can no longer name stars and constellations other than Orion, the Big Dipper, and the North Star. However, I’m still amazed at their beauty and in awe that the God who created them also cares for me.

ere is a view of the shelves in the truck topper. I don’t think that I had mentioned the fact that I built the shelves with a rather steep angle toward the back of the shelf (front of the truck). My knees hurt from crawling around in the bed of the truck so I’m taking a break from stocking those shelves.

his black cylinder is a roll of padding that will line the bed of the truck and hopefully save my knees.

And so ends another day in paradise. God bless and g‘nite.

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Day 34 in our Texas home