Merry Christmas Eve to all my Civatar friends! I wish you all the very best that life holds.

(Might want to put a little less rum in that fruitcake soak next year!)

I post this every year and still get chills when I read it even after all this time. My brother has been gone several years now, and I still miss him dealy.

Sounds like something out of a science fiction movie doesn’t it!!

Thanksgiving is over and it’s time to start thinking really seriously about The Christmas Holidays!

My favorite picture from way back. The tree looks a bit different each year but basically stays the same.

Sorta like my life… different- yet the same!

It’s most important that we don’t forget this!

Today will be spent raking and bagging the windfall of long needles from the white pine trees on the property.
They will be used to fill the dog’s boxes and to make comfy nests for the hens to lay their eggs in. Any leftovers will be used in spring for veggie mulch.

White pine is not native to this area, but we have several trees that were brought home by my girls from school as tiny little “treelings”!

Back through my years of social media, I have been called by multiple names.

Veto, Verp (from typos)

Over and Rove (deliberate typos from Setty).

Granny Clampett (springing from my personality and ability to cook up a good possum.

It still goes on…the name calling..(.some of them actually nice.) ((Grin))

Last week it was Flossie…Part of a trio of good friends namely Flossie Fanny and Flo!

Today it was “Helga.”

That one had me scratching my head, so I looked it up.

Helga, in Norse mythology (and also in the Holy Bible) means “Blessed.”

I certainly am!!!♥♥♥♥♥

Orange you glad Halloween is almost here!!

This daylily, “Volcanic Fireworks”, only had a couple of blooms this past season, but is multiplying rapidly. I look for a spectacular showing next year.