Merry Christmas From Texas!

This picture has been going around Facebook the last week or so.

I SO love it!! 

While it says 'Season's Greeting' I would like to say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

Sunday Louis Dean and I had planned to visit Surfside, Texas and walk on the beach.

As it happened Sunday was a heavy rainy stormy kind of day.

So we are saving this for later this winter.

Walking on a beach in the winter has got to be one of my favorite things!

I remember taking Louis Dean to Galveston for his very first time in February one year.

We have been setting record HIGH temps for the last few days here in the Houston area.

A cold front is supposed to arrive tonight and I am looking forward to it!

The following is the story that goes with the picture:

The Night Before Christmas (Texas style)

T'was the night before Christmas, in Texas, you know.

Way out on the prairie, without any snow.

Asleep in their cabin, were Buddy and Sue,

A dreamin' of Christmas, like me and you.

Not stockings, but boots, at the foot of their bed,

For this was Texas, what more need be said,

When all of a sudden, from out of the still night,

There came such a ruckus, it gave me a fright.

And I saw 'cross the prairie, like a shot from a gun,

A loaded up buckboard, come on at a run,

The driver was "Geein" and "Hawin", with a will,

The horses (not reindeer) he drove with such skill.

"Come on there Buck, Poncho, & Prince, to the right,

There'll be plenty of travelin' for you all tonight."

The driver in Levi's and a shirt that was red,

Had a ten-gallon Stetson on top of his head.

As he stepped from the buckboard, he was really a sight,

With his beard and moustache, so curly and white.

As he burst in the cabin, the children awoke,

And were so astonished, that neither one spoke.

And he filled up their boots with such presents galore,

That neither could think of a single thing more.

When Buddy recovered the use of his jaws,

He asked in a whisper, "Are you really Santa Claus?

"Am I the real Santa? Well, what do you think?"

And he smiled as he gave a mysterious wink.

Then he leaped in his buckboard, and called back in his drawl,

"To all the children in Texas, Merry Christmas, You-all"