Christmas Eve Dec 2009 #1

I'm in NW Oklahoma this Christmas Eve.
The temperature is in the 20s F. The wind is gusting to the 50s.
This is north of the major snow event in the central part of the
state. They will get serious snow in OKC (~1 foot) plus drifting.
In Alva, the snow is just covering the grass but not completely.
The wind is quite audible so I am playing the TV.

Onyx's birthday was yesterday. He was one. For his birthday
we saw three white-tail deer in the canyon where I played growing up.
Today we saw his first snow. He looked. He tasted. Then he ran around and played.
I will dress up for Winter after lunch and we will head out for some winter.

The animal sign in the canyon in those days was cow pies. The pond is drained and the brush and cover has grown up. There is water down there and its good deer habitat down there.

Winter in OK is brown. Its not like I had forgotten but after 20+ years in SC where there is still a lot of green; in OK the cedars are green and that's about it.

Visited my mother in the nursing home yesterday and again today.