My last blog topic was the first Omaha snowfall.  The first snow seems like it was so long ago.  It has been a month of Saturday's with ice and snow and very little time to catch a break and write something.  Christmas has come and gone, much too quickly.   I did get  a break before Christmas to get all of my shopping done the Sunday before the holiday, ...very early.  My first stop was at Westroads, where I started very early as the stores opened.   I did take a moment to stop at Von Maur to visit the outside memorial.  It's hard to visit something like that and not feel that a part of you has been taken away. 

Santa was very good to me granting my wish for a portable reciprocating saw....18volt.   This saw is the perfect "guy" gift.  It will cut anything!, wood, limbs, pipe, everything but rock.  I did get a number of "frogs" for Christmas.  Frogs are the hot new bait and I had a stocking stuffed with them. No, they didn't jump out.  

My schedule prohibited me from going out on New Year's Eve so I spent  the evening with my wife and two boys.  We toasted in the New Year, yup, I was actually awake. watching the motorcycle jump in Vegas.  

2008 holds endless opportunities, I hope all of you had a wonderful Holiday season.

Jim