CHRISTMAS IS FAST APPROACHING

I've got my Christmas Tree up. (such as it is) It's the one I had for our trailer in Texas, but it will do for this year as nothing is going to be happening around my place this year.  


On Christmas Eve, I will be heading into Winnipeg dropping Sea-Enna off at my daughter's for a visit while I head to a friend's annual Christmas Eve party.  


Then I will go back to Tracy  Elizabeth's to pick up Sea-Enna and head to my son Jim's for a Christmas Eve sleep-over.  

Jim is hosting our family Christmas Dinner this year.  I am contributing English Plum Pudding and a Jellied Salad.  Both things that I know my children would omit from mom's traditions if I let them.  LOL.  It will be nice to be staying over till Boxing day, so that way I can have a few libations on the day and not have to drive anywhere. 



Right now I am busy packing because in February I am going to Arizona for a couple of weeks.  Tracy Elizabeth and I are going to visit my Daughter Wendy while she is down there this winter.  So why am I packing now?  Well, the Airline we are traveling on does not allow you to take a bag on board.  

Not even a decent size carry-on.  Because of the cheap cost of the flight, they want to charge you for every bag that goes on the plane.  The only thing allowed to be carried onboard is a bag the size of a big purse, that will fit under the seat in front of you.   So, we are packing our bags now, so my daughter Wendy can take them with her when they leave with their trailer before New Years'.  This saves each of us $50.00 per bag, both ways and we certainly will not be needing these summer clothes, bathing suits, shorts, and flip-flops around here in the next few months.   

This will certainly help to break up the long cold Manitoba winter.  It will also keep our minds a little bit occupied and off of our grief and my daughter's pending illness.  So we are both very much looking forward to it. 

I will try to remember to take lots of pictures over Christmas and I will include them in my blog in the new year.  

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR 

  To all my readers.  

TO BLOG OR NOT TO BLOG

This Blog Started back on December 17th, 2010, which was our second year of travel through the Southern States in our little 24.5 ft Springdale trailer.  This was a way to keep our friends and relatives informed as to where we were and what we were up to.  It has since grown from there to be a weekly blog, whether traveling or not.   It follows us through hauling our trailer from home down south to Texas, East to the Florida Keys, out  West to San Diego and the West coast.  

Also living on board and traveling with our 46 ft trawler throughout the summer.   Then the decision to sell our condo and buy the beach house before it's time to sell the boat.  "We wouldn't want to miss out on our summers at the lake."  Then the Renos to the Beach House etc.  
 

Then the big change, that my life companion and mate Dan, passed suddenly on June 24th of 2019, leaving me adrift and having difficulty making decisions right down to if I should even continue this blog.  My posts have been very spotty since his passing so it is obvious that a decision has not been made about that either.  If I do continue it, it will be a very different blog about Sea-Enna and I and how we are proceeding.  No more traveling and probably a lot more musings about surviving widowhood.  

  

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