Merry Christmas and a New Year filled with comments you'd like very much to take back the next morning

Tomorrow early we leave for Texas, a place where Copper can chase cows and Sadie can...bark indignantly as she always does. Some things don't change state to state.

We'll be spending Christmas with Bud's side of the family and though it always makes me a little sad not to be with my family, it's also cool to be around people who aren't likely to say, "HERE'S HOW YOU DO IT." Over, and over, and over again. Make no mistake, I'm usually the loudest of the crowd, instructing my family how they should live. But wait! I DO know best!

Ah yes, tomorrow will be a day marked by eight hours in a pickup truck filled with two humans, two dogs panting doggie breath wherever they believe its steamy goodness is needed, and lots of good will and cheer. DID YOU HEAR THE SARCASM THROUGH THE SCREEN?

I'm sure I will be posting some tweets, maybe even a little nugget straight from Texas here and there, but mostly I will be cooking, lounging and eating. Hope you will too!