TWO DAYS LATER.....
A somewhat late "Merry Christmas" to all you folks on The High Road. Had to work Christmas Eve Day, had Christmas Day off, had to work yesterday in a dust storm that started blowing around 4:00AM Christmas morn and was still blowing fairly well when the Mrs and I crawled in bed about 10:30 last night!
(No, I don't call dust storms "Haboobs" like all those gentrified folks in Phoenix or Tucson do - figure that if my Dad or my Mom were still around, they'd been tannin' my backside if they caught me talkin' about B**B's in polite company.)
Anyhoo, again, Merry Christmas and hopin' God smiles upon you and keeps your powder dry next year.
Oh, and kBob: Just the opposite situation is occurring with "SWMBO" or "The War Department" down here in the Sonora Desert. The Li'l Missus has been piling roughly 25 pounds of blankets on the bed. Born in Cleveland and raised in a little suburban town called Chesterland; she has no cotton to bein' that cold ever again.
Me being a desert kid and raised under two creosote bushes and a mesquite tree in this kinda weather, I just put on a pair of flannel PJ's and sleep on top of all the linens!
Merry Christmas, y'all
