Terreiro

The weather has turned down right cold the last few days and one bad thing about delivering newspapers we can not stay home if it is to cold outside. We are pretty much like the mail carriers neither rain nor snow or gloom of night will keep us from the delivery of the newspapers. I wish we got paid as well as letter carries do and where is our strong union at when we need it. I love my job and it is only a couple of months until it warms back up then we have a great job working at night and sleeping during the day when it is hot outside.

We have a couple of mice that have thrown our kitchen into a state of disrepair, we have been unable to catch them, we have tried many times. The are so smart they steal the peanut butter off the mouse trap and escape all the time. The worst part is we can not leave the butter out to be soft when we want to use it because they love butter as much as we do. We will step up our efforts to catch these critters so our lives can go back to normal, soon.

Man is it cold outside, it is going to get down into the single digits tonight and I am not ready for that at all. I will have to leave a drip going in the pipes to keep it from freezing up and busting. I sure do not want to deal with a busted pipe on a cold day like tomorrow is going to be. They are calling for flurries and temps in the mid twenties. That is to much like winter for me. I want it closer to eighty and a nice cool drink with an umbrella to cool me off man is that a pipe dream today.

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?