We didn't put up a tree, lights or decorations this year because we'd both been under the weather. Hubby had a bad cold that he caught from his students before the holiday break and he kindly shared it with me but mine progressed to a bad case of bronchitis so neither of us had the strength for decorating. We got our Christmas gifts a couple of weeks early ... a 7 month old Golden Retriever we've named Boeing, "Bo" for short. My husband teaches in the aviation field so that's where the name Boeing came from; he had a different name when we got him but he never answered to it and the minute we started calling him Bo he responded ... so Bo it is. We had cats in the family for many years but this is the first canine we've had in our household in @ 28 years and we are having so much fun with him! He sure keeps us laughing with his antics but he's very smart and we're finding training him to be quite easy! He's a big, strong puppy at 75 pounds already and I still need some training with him on leash to keep him from pulling which we're working on. I also bought myself a Christmas present because I knew we were getting a dog. It's a dark brown hoodie sweatshirt with a huge blue dog paw print on front and the words "Walk with a friend"
I told hubby he needed to buy himself a present so he did ... a 60" plasma t.v. LOL. We have three big televisions in this house already and we don't even watch a lot of t.v. except for an occasional basketball or football game during the season. I do like HGTV once in awhile and a station that used to be called GMC (Gospel Music Channel) where they played music during the day and aired family-type shows and movies at night. Earlier this year they changed the station name to UPTV (Uplifting T.V.) and it's my favorite channel because the only thing they air is family oriented shows; re-runs of the Walton's, Seventh Heaven etc. and family friendly movies. If a movie has any curse words, they are edited out. Don't get me wrong, I'm no angel and I've been known to say a curse word a time or two but as I've gotten older I've tried hard to be better and think before speaking
and I just feel that there's been so much garbage on television for so many years that it's refreshing to have a channel nowadays that airs gentler, kinder shows.
Below is a photo of our Golden Boy; he'd been out in the yard, yanked a hunk of sod out of the ground and promptly ran to the screened porch where he jumped up on the settee and ate it. The pillows were first placed above the sofa because he wanted to eat them ... they've since been removed from the porch and stored in a closet because they were still within his reach.
Happy New Year everyone ... may 2014 bring you all many blessings!
