Palominas Parade

We actually live in a small community called Palominas, just a few miles south of Sierra Vista. When I say "small", I mean small. Our son played in his grade school band, which happened to be marching in the local Christmas parade. We went down to watch it, and this was one of the more colorful floats.



Apparently anyone who has the inclination is able participate in the parade. Here is living proof of that. During a temporary lull in the parade, these two characters (man and donkey) took turns pushing and butting at each other. It was pretty funny to watch.

Cold Living in the Storage Building

While we build our own house, we are staying at my inlaws' storage building that they built prior to beginning their own home next year. One side holds an RV where we eat and sleep. The other side was originally intended to be a workshop, but we have converted it to temporary "living" quarters and have installed a couch, satellite TV, washer/dryer, and a water bed. The building isn't insulated, though, and it isn't heated with anything other than the small space heater that is visible under the table, so it gets damn chilly in there during these winter evenings as we watch TV. Here my wife is bundled up in just about everything she could find, including a skull cap. My son is wearing a black ski mask with eye slits and has a down comforter wrapped around himself.

Some day we'll laugh about all of this, just as you are no doubt doing now as you view this.

We received some snow just before Christmas. The storm dumped another couple of inches just after this picture was taken, but most of it was gone a few days later.