Christmas Eve - Merry Christmas

[Colliemom]

Good Morning on this Christmas Eve morning. Getting ready to head to mass in a bit, but wanted to take time to wish all of you a Merry Christmas out there. Hope you all have a wonderful day no matter what you are doing or where you are, alone or with family or friends. Take time to relax, put your cares aside and remember the reason for the season. We have a Winter Storm Watch in effect here for tomorrow with a potential of 5-10 plus inches and winds possibly gusting to 30 mph. So that is not going to make for a good travel day. I am planning on going over to a cousin's up here, but am now going to have to wait and see. Decided to stop and get a turkey dinner take out to have as a backup Christmas Day dinner just in case. There are a ton of movies on TV too.

Beth, enjoy the potluck. I'm sure there will be lots of yummies. The thought of free food, even if one has to make a dish to pass, if enough to want to partake. We never turn that down. Think of it as a big RV GTG and we know how famous RVers are for eating.


MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MY HOUSE TO YOURS


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And for those wishing for a White Christmas with the snow covered trees, here ya go. Nature's Christmas trees from across the road here.

[Bethers]

Yay, Sue.. Thanks for the pictures. That feels like Christmas! Without the flag, the pictures almost appear black and white. Love that. Snow is the part of winter I miss. its beauty is incomparable for me.

Nothing planned for today... Happy Christmas Eve ladies!

[Acadianmom]

Sue, your house and the trees are very pretty as I sit here in 50 degree weather. I think it's suppose to get down into the 30's tonight.

I didn't go to the nursing home yesterday because of my cold. My nose has quit running so think I will go today and hope I'm not contagious.

Merry Christmas Eve

Martha

[avalen]

Good morning
Beautiful pictures!
Christmas eve at daughters tonight, looking forward to it.
Not doing much today, just relaxing with a little crochet project while watching tv. Although I'm sure ill take a run out to the motorhome to stash something during commercials. Anymore commercials can run a good 7 minutes. Plenty of time to get something done.
Merry Christmas, y'all enjoy your day.

[BarbaraRose]

Merry Christmas Eve!

Getting ready for church soon and then to work for a few hours.

Love the photos Sue, but glad l am just looking at a photo!

Have a great day!

[havingfunnow]

I saw this online and couldn't resist re-posting. I'm expecting the neighbors this evening, because we have a trampoline hidden in the front bedroom. (It feels so weird to say that ). Their youngest still believes in Santa.

[MandysMom]

Another sunny day here. Tree is up and decorated. Packages wrapped. A couple of food items to make, but otherwise we are ready to spend a quiet day waiting for Santa. Mel is even feeling pretty ok. Have a wonderful Christmas everyone.
Velda

[Cudedog]

OH! Sue!!! I actually gasped when I scrolled down and your photos jumped out at me from the screen. I sobbed for a moment, and now have tears in my eyes. Not sure where that sudden emotion came from, but I guess it was there just below the surface, waiting to emerge. **THANK YOU**.

Will finally put up the Christmas tree later today. I bought about a four-foot artificial tree a few years back, decorated it nicely, then put in on a box in the living room, with a fancy tree skirt covering the box, so that the tree didn't look so small. After Christmas I took a second look at it, decided it "looked pretty good!" so threw a sheet over it (decorations, lights and all) and put the whole thing out in my garage.

So all I have to do is go out and get it, plug it in, and I am good to go.

Will put up a few more decorations here and there inside the house for when my kids come (none out yet, even though it is Christmas Eve), but not too many. Most of my life I have always been a real lover of Christmas - the decorations, the baking, the caroling, the laughter, the guests, the music, the parties, the celebration, the friends.

Not so much anymore.

Christmas decorations (especially those I put up inside my house) just bring back memories of happier times, long gone by.

My daughter and son-in-law are both coming tomorrow (Christmas Day) and staying overnight; my son and his Lady will come Tuesday (I hope) and also stay overnight.

As soon as my son's car backs out of the driveway Wednesday morning, I will close the door after waving good bye, and get right to work putting everything away again. I will take the solar Christmas lights down from my roof on Wednesday, too, and that will be that.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Anne

[SoCalGalcas]

GOOD MORNING ALL, I didn't win the lottery last night. Glad I only buy one ticket a year. Really a "suckers" bet.

Sue, your pictures are BEAUTIFUL. Louise, love that picture you posted! Glad Mel is doing OK. Annie, get yourself down to Q in Jan.

Real quiet around here. I will be home tonight then tomorrow go over to the daughters for brunch and opening of presents.

Cold on our early walk for Benji and me. Temp said 46*, but it felt colder.

lyn

[Othersharon]

Just slightly past morning here! Sue, you showed me what we’re supposed to get later today into tonight! Can’t say I’m looking forward to it! So my plans for tomorrow are kinda up in the air. Supposed to go to son’s for dinner but will depend on condition of the roads. Going to run that way here in a bit and drop off presents just in case! Plus fill the car and gas can! Been telling myself since last snow that I needed to get more gas for the snowblower and keep forgetting to put the can in the car! I just finished washing sheets and changing beds from company last night. My niece and her husband stopped by on their way to FL. Haven’t seen her for several years and had hoped they’d be here earlier so we could meet up with my boys but it was later when they got here and they weren’t sure if they’d stay or continue on. By the time they decided to stay it was to late for a meet up. They left here about 8 this morning so should easily be out of the storm threat area. I planted the idea of finding me a place to stay with the RV that isn’t far from where they have the boat. They live on it somewhere around Toronto. So that is possibly a trip this summer!

Not much else happpening here. Enjoying hearing about all the plans you all have for Christmas. Velda, glad Mel is doing well after his treatment. You are in my thoughts. Carol, I try to read your postings everyday. Love seeing the photos and reading about your adventures in Mexico. Hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and enjoy the day wherever and whatever you do.

[elkriverrats]

Merry Christmas to all you wonderful ladies! I did not decorate this year (for the second year) and I'm not having an issue with it. We visit my husband's family on Christmas Eve and my family tomorrow so we don't get much time to enjoy decorations here. DS is grown and doesn't miss dragging out all my stuff. I have lots of weekend plans in January if the weather cooperates so anything I put out would be out until Feb. I'd rather travel than decorate any day!
Tonight will be a delicious dinner and gift exchange (no kiddos on that side of the family any more). Tomorrow will be the Christmas chaos that I miss...niece and nephew will be beside themselves with holiday spirit. Love being a part of that one more time!
Wishing you all joy and peace, however you celebrate

[OregonLuvr]

Good Morning.

Lyn I didnt win the lottery either but "no ticket, no chance" is my motto.

I love the pictures of Sue's house and the snow. I think one Christmas I want to go somewhere they have a white Christmas for a week or so tho ha ha

It is fun for me to be home this year for the first time in 17 years of traveling for my job. I have some decorations up inside that make me feel very festive. Not a lot but enough I can put them all away quickly.

I will be doing some camping trips this summer. In fact already made reservations for June at Bullards Beach in Bandon Oregon. So if anyone is in the area Laura and I will be camping there June 25, 26, 27 then moseying up and around the coast. Hoping to do lots of camping this summer.

Will be enjoying Christmas Eve with Laura, and her Mom at Laura's sisters house. Laura and her Mom are making a trip to San Diego for a football game. Fun for them.

Hope everyone has happy holidays no matter what they are doing. And here is to a great 2018

[Irmi]

Good afternoon friends!

Sue, the pictures of the snowy yard are gorgeous! And that's how I like snow...in pictures.

Martha, I hope you're up to seeing Harold tomorrow.

Anne, before we retired, we put several large commercial garbage bags over our decorated Christmas tree and yanked it into the attic. The following year, we did things in reverse. My parents taught me that and it made life very easy. Now that we're on the road for the holiday, we have a fiber optic tree on our dash and a battery operated lit wreath in our big window, and those are our decorations.

Tomorrow, we're going to have dinner with friends here in the campground. The campground is having a potluck, but we can attend those anytime. We'd rather spend the occasion with these folks, since life is so uncertain.

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Acadianmom]

Lyn, someone will win the lottery sometime. Of course, the odds are about one in a billion. It's hard not to buy a ticket when it gets to $300 million. Three people from a town about 60 miles from here won in November.

I never did get my tree out this year. The tree has lights but I don't even know what I did with the decorations. If I ever got it out, after Christmas I would decorate it for Mari Gras. I have a 12 inch Dollar Store tree that I bought to decorate with when I went camping hanging on the front door. I never looked but you probably can't even see it from the road.

I would think it would be hard to hide a trampoline. And then set it up for Christmas. One year I took my son's old bike and painted it, put new handle bars and seat on it and gave it to him for Christmas. I don't think he ever realized it was his old bike. Back then our road wasn't paved so there wasn't a lot of bike riding going on.

The picture of Santa and the camper would make a good Christmas Card for my Glamping friends.

Martha

[JudyJB]

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas! Going to be a quiet next couple of days for me here at Valley of Fire north of Las Vegas. I left my Napa son's house on Thursday morning and made it here yesterday after two stops on the way. This is a first-come, first-served place, so I was lucky to get the last hookup campsite--a big paved, handicap site. I originally was going to go to Boulder on Lake Mead, but my water pump was not working, and Boulder has no hookups. Also, I have a horrible cold, so wanted some luxury like electric.

Anyway, just got back from a run to the local grocery to pick up some more cold over-the-counter stuff to last me until Tuesday when I fly out to Ohio to see that son and grandkids. I knew everything would be closed tomorrow, so had to do it today. And then, when I got back, I let my water pump run for a while, and it started working--yea!

I was not looking forward to getting back from Ohio and having to spend another afternoon at Camping World, so am very happy. Also, I had just filled up my fresh water tank, and hate to leave all their water weight sitting there. Now I will get those down to 1/4 of a tank and dump the black and grey before I leave on Tuesday morning at 6:00 am. Will have to use flashlights and dump in the dark to make it to airport in time. Wishing those longer days would come faster.