Ornaments on the Tree

My Dear Friend Helen has asked me to take some photos of the ornaments on our tree. After seeing the photos on Krissy's blog of her tree and ornaments mine suck!! I just haven't had good luck and guess I really don't want to play with the settings on my camera...But here are a few, and if you go to this site you can see some more photos; http://www.flickr.com/photos/10418594@N08/sets/72157603458213782

Gas/Fuel prices ramblings...

I was talking through email to my dear friend Helen in Australia last night. I asked her what they were paying for fuel/gas just out of curiosity. She told me $1.30 per litre. Now at first you think WOW that sounds good but then I did the math...

If they bought a gallon instead of a litre they would be paying $5.91 for gas/fuel. I figured out what they would be paying for a litre if their gal. of gas/fuel was $2.85 like ours....$2.85 U.S. = $3.23 in Australian dollars...then divide 3.23 by 4.55 (that is how many litres are in a gallon, rounded off). They would be paying .71 for a litre of gas/fuel...

So the next time you complain about $2.85 a gallon for gas/fuel think of Helen in Australia...

If someone wants to check my figures go for it...because this may be wrong. Below is the website I used for conversions.

http://www.dhl.com.au/publish/au/en/tools/conversion.high.html

I won't say a word about how much we pay for gas/fuel as compared to Australia as it's pretty cheap....But I will conserve and continue to sit home, LOL...Thank goodness I don't live in Aussie land as I would not be driving a truck!!

My sympathies are with you Helen, I honestly don't know how you do it and now know why you also stay home most of the time.

Greetings from Mason

We just received and email Christmas Card from Denise at Northern Classic Collies.

This is Mason, Jakes Dad, isn't he beautiful!!

Thank you Denise and Happy Colliedays to you too!!

Christmas Tree

Our Tree is up!!

Fred took Michael Christmas shopping tonight so I was able to put the tree up with no disruptions. I moved my recliner chair out of the way and put the tree there, LOL...better my chair then Fred's.

Tree is up!!

Decorated (with lights on)

Decorated (lights off)

I know this photo is blurry but I liked it. Wish I would have had the tripod set up.

Jake being the photogentic dog!!

Christmas Kisses!

Jake and Michael. (My favorite photo of the night!)

Michael standing at Attention. He didn't want his photo taken, can you tell?

Ho Ho Ho Jakey!!

I know this photo is a bit dark but I liked it. Jake is such a good photo subject.

Well I can breath a sigh of relief. The tree is up and my son told me "It's a beautiful tree Momma, I love Christmas!" Now if we can just keep KitCat from tearing the ornaments off!!

Corpus Christi at Christmas time

We went to Corpus Christi last Saturday. Warm and overcast day so the outside photos are a bit dark and dreary...

Once again trying for photos of the Carousel at the Padre Staples mall ( I think), there are two malls in Corpus. Krissy they took your feather dusters off the horses, LOL.

Christmas tree over where Santa's chair was at near the Carousel.

Michael riding the Carousel.

I was more or less trying to play with my camera. I really hate using the flash as it washes everything out....so some photos are dark and others way too bright. I also got a bit dizzy while on the carousel with Michael, LOL. Fred said he got dizzy just watching us....

This years theme was "The Polar Express". They had this train set up near Santa.

We couldn't get Michael to go near Santa. He wanted nothing to do with him. I tried for a photo of just Santa but it was pretty dark and I was to far away. They make it so you can't even see or get near Santa if you don't pay...grrrr....He was a cute Santa though and looked like he had a real beard too and even a red suit, YEA! He was waving at the kids and seemed like a jolly old fella!! At least he wasn't wearing flannel pj's like our Santa at the Victoria Mall does, LOL.

Michael and Fred in one of the stores shopping, oggling and playing!! Michael found a dragon puzzle, cool Mamma!! And then they found a pin-ball game, Oh BOY!!

Michael with dark circles under his eyes checking out the beds, LOL...Nap time perhaps?
Okay instead of "Where's Waldo?" We have Where's Michael? We played a lot of where's Michael that day, ugh!!

Update on Jake.

We’ve just spent the afternoon at the Vets. They did blood work on Jake and everything is Normal. YES!!

She did a QBC, Comprehensive Panel, and a heart worm check (it was in the one group) and Jake is fine. His blood count is up where it should be. She checked him for Lyme disease and all the other known tick diseases and nothing. She also did a urinalysis and that was normal too, kidneys were fine. I lost a horse to kidney failure and I never want to go through that again, it was terrible.

She said because he is a puppy and puppies need to build up their blood count, that may have been why it was low. Or it possibly could have been stress from flying down here, being in a new environment (hot/muggy)….But he’s fine. I breathed a sigh of relief, LOL….I am so thankful, I’ve been praying that Jake would be okay.

He is going to get neutered next Monday. Not a moment to soon if you ask me, he is starting to notice female dogs, LOL….

We graduate from our intermediate class in Obedience in two weeks. Jake is doing great, he is such a smart dog. There was a Client in the vet office that fell in love with Jake. He is so laid back and everyone who meets him falls in love. I was laughing at him as he just lay down in the front waiting area and just stretched out and made himself at home. Everyone was laying on the floor petting and loving him and of course Jake was grunting and groaning, soaking it all up!!

A quicky on Fall colors in South Texas

For you with perverted minds this is a quicky blog not anything else (lol) as I have 1 minute to stop everything and get ready to go....Yes we down here in South Texas do have fall colors, LOL...Now they aren't as gorgeous or beautiful as in the NE of the U.S.A. but still they're colorful, LOL....

Majestic Oak tree in gold and yellow

beautiful baby oak tree full of reds....

So you see we have our golds and reds too!! The past week was what I would call our prime tree color...the leaves are falling and the weather is changing.

Now off to take Jake to the vet...yes folks more blood work and tests. Seems Jake is just not up to par yet....more later.