Christmas in Georgia

Our planned quiet, low key, "token present only Christmas" kind of deteriorated late in the afternoon on Christmas Eve when Mom overheard Dick on the phone telling his friend in Minnesota that he would like to get a gun to hunt deer and pigs.  That was the first any of us had heard that he was even slightly interested in hunting down here. I guess being a life-time hunter and seeing all the deer and pig tracks every time he goes for a walk in the woods and telling hunting stories with the neighbors got his interest piqued.  So Mom called me from the bathroom in a whisper asking me to go into town and get a gun for Dick for Christmas.  Oh yikes!  I have never hunted, am not crazy about guns at all, and avoid WallyWorld like the plague.  We figured the new WalMart in Eufaula was our best bet for finding a gun on Christmas Eve, and figured the people who man the counter could give us advice about which gun to buy.

So we joined all the rest of the population of Barbour, Henry, Houston, and Quitman Counties, and all the residents of Eufaula and Georgetown, for a Christmas Eve shopping trip to WalMart.  The gun department people were a great help, and we found the perfect rifle.  After a false start where we used our Georgia address and were rejected by the great computer in the sky, we were able to register the gun to our home in Washington State.  One more step on Monday and it will be in Dick's name after we go to the courthouse in Georgetown and transfer all the paperwork again.  It was well worth all the effort though - I am not sure I have ever seen anyone more surprised than Dick was when we handed him the gift wrapped rifle as the last present to open.

December Sunset

The sun is setting much further up the lake these days than when we first got here in September.  Nearly at the equinox though, when the sunsets come back our way.  It was so nice to have a day without wind and with lots of sunshine.  I walked around the peanut field and found an arrow head!  We used to find them all the time, but this is the first one I have found in quite a while.

The sunset tonight was a really vibrant orange.

The sunset is reflected on the windows of my parents' house and the moon looks full again.

Sadie's Flea Market - Dothan, Alabama

Sunday, December 5, 2010 - Cold and sunny when we headed into Dothan to the flea market.  The perfect place to find:

A wrench or pair of pliers

A teddy bear

Fruit and veggies

A sword

Rocks

Jewelry, sunglasses, puppies,

You name it - if you have time to look, you can probably find it.