Yes, friends, I have already begun plotting out my decorating scheme for my Christmas lights, etc. I'm very excited this year, even more so than usual for some odd reason. I didn't get to do any outside decorations for some reason last year. This year I want go all out. I've been scouting the yard for small tress and bushes that could be useful. I have som huge Pine trees, but they are just too big. Some of the larger bushes will be perfect. I also have two trellises(sp?) that will be beautiful all lit up. Also I'm planning to build a nativity scene. I've been doing it for three or four years now. Actually I did dio that last yearf, I forgot. I have found that I can easily build it out of for skids, you know, wooden palletts. One for the floor, one for the back wall, two for the side walls. Then I build the roof out of planks pulled from a fifth skid. Then add some straw, and a small flood light. I'll have to buy my own plastic figure this year, as I no longer pastor a church that owns one. Man, I can't wait!
Yes, Sister Smith. I know I am a weirdo, much like the poor other fellow you mention. (I just couldn't bring myself to mention Brother Horne's name in the same sentence as "weirdo"...oh, wait a minute...woops!)
It's a sickness, I'm sure. Maybe I'll get my wife to put a good Christmas sonG on here...o, yeah!
Later...
Brother Donnie
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YOU ARE SICK AND WEIRD.
I'm quite certain that she does. I would never suspect the good sister of any kind of sarcasm, meanness or such like.
I also suppose that she is correct. Just posting about it has gotten me in such a Christmas-sy mood. I was talking about it to a brother after church tonight. I can't wait to hear the marching bands play...wow...in the local parades. Btw, the local ones are sooooo much better than the boring, commercial ones on TV. I just love the atmosphere. The crisp air, seeing the people I may not have seen for awhile, the yummy Christmas candy and treats, watching small town Christmas parades with my family...once I hatched a plan to try and buy an old tractor so I could join the Greenup County Tractor Association and drive it in the Greenup Christmas parade...I was foiled by my wife, who is by no means a scrooge, but who doesn't get quite as carried away as I.
All that and I haven't even mentiuoned the great stuff we get to do with our church family. I like to get a group from church together and go Christmas Caroling at a local nursing home. Man, that's fun, and a great blessing. Those people really appreciate it. I love to see their faces get a lit up. I always make sure that I or some older member if I have one available gets a chance to read, I mean really read the Christmas story from the Bible. In a way that actually allows the story to sink in. I actually love to preach during that time of year. I usually start the first Sunday of the month and work my way up to the Sunday morning before Christmas...man. I'm rambling...sorry...I am a little sick...and weird..."sigh"
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