Earth shaking news has been so often broadcast this past few weeks that I am about to stop using an electric gadget at all! My truck radio is just about as bad as the TV set in the house. I am telling all you folks that we should sure enough spend time on our knees pleading for this country.
I don't have much time to spend with you today. My close relative is in there writing a long list for grocery shopping and another one for Christmas shopping. I am flush with cash today because I planned ahead and sold some cull cattle last week and we are set to go! No, I did not reveal the trip to the sale barn to my close relative because that might bring on more spending than I could handle. Without knowledge of the cash, she will be more interested in the bargains!
I am a kid at heart and love to see all the tinsel and twinkling decorations in the stores this time of the year. The Santas ringing bells at the red kettles get my vote for needing some donations and I sometimes give folding stuff to them. I know the cold and hungry in America are helped by those folks.
We will go to town in my close relative's car and I am thankful for that. We won't need the room of a pickup bed for all the stuff! I sure am pleased to find treasures for the Grands that fit in the car instead of a truck! I also grieve a little because they are all growing up so fast. The paint pony is still above and beyond anything in one's heart, but how long will that last?
Our female offspring has sent us a list of things to purchase for her and her chosen one. We look the said lists over and then get what we want to give! I know she only tries to help, but just how much fun is it to open up a big bag of underwear on a Christmas morning? If they need drawers, they can buy them themselves! She did mention a couple of nice kitchen things that I am pretty sure will be of use to all of us when we visit their home, so I will get that without a problem!
The male offspring want to mention skiing trips to be found in their stockings but, as far as I can see and I can see a long way, I ain't gonna come up with such trivial stuff that makes me work twice as hard around here! Even the thought makes me have heartburn! They are not athletic enough to do that sort of business anyway. I have the dreaded mental flashes of them in body casts for months at a time!
It is my opinion, and everyone has one, this season of celebration of the birth of Jesus is a special one. Our world is a violent place and, just because we live in the Bible belt of the USA, we are not immune to troubles. I am sure we need to enjoy ourselves, but the need to be in the right frame of mind is the important thing. Celebrate His birth!
Don't wear your spurs to town, looks like drugstore cowboy stuff!
Bill is the pen name used by the Gravette-area author of this weekly column. Opinions expressed are those of the author.
Editorial on 12/16/2015