Terreiro

If you thought the Friday after Thanksgiving was the only Black Friday this year you were quite wrong. Today is being called Black and Blue Friday because the store are cutting prices on the holiday stock they had bought to get it sold before the end of the year. Electronics will be very cheap and I plan to get me some quality electronic items at bargain basement prices. I am not sure where the blue comes in to title but let us hope no one gets banged up to bad on this great shopping day.

I have to go out and brave the cold and the crowds to finish my Christmas shopping today. I have to work every day right up till Christmas and today will be my only chance to get away and buy the few gifts I have left to purchase. I hate to wait till the last minute because the crowds get nastier and meaner the closer to Christmas you get. I mean on Black Friday they killed a security guard in a Wal-Mart, what is it going to be like the closer we get to Christmas?

It has been touch and go if our business is going to make it to the new year. The high price of gasoline and other expenses this summer have about put us under the barn so to speak. Let us hope that the lower price of gasoline and other expenses will enable us to turn the corner and make our business a profitable one. I have been thinking about taking on another job just to keep the bills paid until the economy gets better. I really do not want to do that but I may be forced after Christmas to seek another job.

December 7th has always been a special day in my family, a whole lot of the poor families in Oklahoma had family members in the military service late in 1941, no money to be made on the farm so the boys all went to the Navy and a lot of them from my area were on ships at Pearl Harbor on that dreadful day. My small town in Oklahoma lost 14 men on that day and out of a town of 300 people that was a devastating loss. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families that lost brave sailors and marines on that day and let us hope that nothing like that ever happens again.