Skywatch Friday - Terrell Power Outage

As I mentioned in the 'update' from yesterday, we had a power outage yesterday morning here in Terrell that lasted a little over an hour. Just long enough to freak out people who were trying to cook Thanksgiving dinner. =)

It turned out that a 'transformer' (i think that's what it's called) burned out a couple blocks down on my street. The cylindrical shape at the top of this pole had some burned up wires and black markings at the top where it blew out. Funny how a small problem can compound for so many people, and at the same time make you appreciate the little things in life. Like electricity =)

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Going out of town for the holiday? I'm looking forward to some chocolate chip pecan pie! I've got to do some extra walking this week to make up for all the food I'm about to eat =)

I hope everyone has a nice and safe holiday!

**Update: we had a brief power outage while I was posting this photo - it lasted for almost an hour, which I'm sure caused a lot of electric oven people a headache - I'll be following up with a photo later! In the meantime, here's a photo of my oven. It's the original old O'keefe and Merritt stove that came with my house. I kept it in the remodel last year =) It's not big enough to cook a big turkey, but at least it worked during the power outage =) :

Grapes of Wrath

Please forgive my lapse in posting yesterday, I found myself busy with work the past few days preparing for holidays and lost track of time.... when I say lost track of time, that means I was up until 1:30am working on things and I normally get up to go to the gym at 4:30am. That didn't happen. And I still didn't get a workout in tonight either - I'll have to get a good one tomorrow before and after eating!

Today's photo is a wrought iron gate with some grape adornment! how appropos....

More Decor

This was another part of the same window display from yesterday...

Christmas Tree reflections

Today's photo was taken in downtown Kaufman. I know these photos look a little jumbled with all the reflections, but I like them - and I took this one of myself on purpose =)

Christmas wreath

I truly do love Christmas. The season itself and the mood and feeling that comes with Christmas. The feeling escapes me when I'm trying to maneuver my basket around Wal-mart on Sunday morning, but walking around the downtown area and looking at the window displays brings it back =)

Congratulations to my brother and his new wife who were married Saturday night (11-22) in Missouri! Good luck Greg and Diana!!!! Greg - please always remember these 5 important words "i'm sorry, i was wrong!"

Autumn leaves

Today's photo shows the bradford pear trees in the yard next door to my house. They have beautiful colors in the fall...

American National

this is the back of the American National Bank building in the background with the 'Creative Florist' building to the left in the photo. The Creative Florist is where I took my recent Christmas storefront photos =)

Still looking for Thanksgiving...

I checked the local light poles downtown to see if I could find some Thanksgiving decorations somewhere, and this is what I found....

Merry Merry

It still strikes me as strange that we begin celebrating Christmas before Thanksgiving is even here. But it's everywhere - I haven't seen any turkeys or Thanksgiving decorations anywhere....?