Our Adventure in Christmas Trees - Week 1

     Well, we have been on this Christmas Tree lot in Corpus Christi, Texas for 1 week.  The weather has been wonderful.  A bit humid, but not as bad as in San Antonio.  We have a constant breeze.  Today is supposed to be a little chilly.  69 degrees (lol).  We are working for Holiday Hills Christmas Trees (you can check out their website).  They had people come in and put up a tent the size of a circus tent.  We had to string lights, electrical, build a booth, run water lines, hang signs, etc etc.  They had a company put a fence around the lot.  We are parked right on the lot inside the fence and they provide water, sewer and electric.  We placed a huge sign on one side of the fence and the wind blew from that direction so hard that it ripped the fence right off the stands.  We fixed the fence and moved the sign.  Once good suggestion to Holiday Hills is - put air holes in your signs!

     We are now waiting on 351 trees that should be here this weekend. We hired a few guys to help with the workload.  Looking forward to a fun Christmas season with a bunch of Christmas trees!  (Pictures coming next post).

**Note to self:  Watch out for those tent stakes surrounding your tent!

4 MORE YEARS OF OBAMA - CAN WE AFFORD IT?

I don't know how much better Mitt Romney would have done, but I do know that he believed in the American dream of coming to this country or being born in this country and making a better life for yourself and your family on your own terms.  Our country was built on the idea that everyone has the right to make a life for himself as he choses.  Either he choses to become wealthy with very hard work, become part of the middle class by hard work, or remain poor with no work at all.  Obama's "share the wealth" plan has already turned us into the poor rather than the middle class.  I can no longer afford great health insurance because my premium has risen so high in order to pay for others who did not work for 32 years in order to have the benefit of good healthcare, that by 2014 Obama will have succeeded in forcing me to lower my standard of healthcare to that of the poor.  I could have chosen to work harder to be wealthy.  I didn't want to work that hard, but I wanted to work hard enough to support myself and my family and to retire with good healthcare.  I chose not to be poor.  Just because I chose to be part of the middle class, does not mean I expect the wealthy to give me what they worked much harder for.  People poorer than I should not expect me to give them what I worked so hard for. As Jesus said, the poor will always be with us.  It is for us to help them by giving out of love, not for us to be forced to give them an equal share (or more) of what we worked so hard for.  I should not have to give such a large hand-out that I now become equal to the poor and need a hand-out myself.  Four more years.  Can we afford it?  Can I afford it?