Snowmen With Hearts

AS I SIT TYPING I hear wind blowing.  Sounds like we're in a Ghost Town.  Ever so often howling can be heard from the wind making its way through the crack in the double doors out front.  Remembering when the wind howled through the windows in my childhood HOME.  It was a constant reminder that nature was outside trying to get inside.  Memories of days gone by.  More of 
these taking place.

As the CHRISTMAS decorations flutter away disappearing, I'm tempted to get my snowmen out with Valentines.  Tempted.    Snowmen in January is appropriate in KANSAS as we wait for signs of Spring.  Brrrrr tis bitter cold this New Year's Eve morning.  I've rested.  

Writing THANK YOUs that will be mailed this week.  Epiphany is next week-end on January 6th.  My CHRISTMAS GIFTS will have all been delivered by then.  The WISEMEN arrived to present the CHRIST CHILD gifts.  Giving it some thought for next year about not even shopping until the day after CHRISTMAS using the half off sales to benefit the pocket book.



I have used the day after Christmas sales before to purchase Valentine and Mother's Day gifts.  The gifts sat in a closet until I was ready to use them.  Many use the half off sales at Halloween to buy candy for Thanksgiving gatherings.  Not the first to do this.  Helps stretch the budget toward treats.

Last night we watched the 2017 remake of THE BEGUILED with Nichole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Farrell.  Liking the interior scenes and the costuming.  The acting was convincing.  A dramatic thriller with mystery.  The box office: 27.7 million usd.  Nice chunk of change. 

Cpl. John McBurney is an injured Union soldier who finds himself on the run as a deserter during the Civil War. He seeks refuge at an all-female Southern boarding school where the teachers and students seem more than willing to help.

I saw the 1971 film, but didn't remember the plot.  Watching the '71 trailer indicates changes in the storyline.  The costumes are not as elaborate, but still in the South around Civil War times.
      

NEW YEAR's EVE changes will take place.  No new year's resolutions other than giving thought to changes.  More movement, more Spring water to drink, more steamed vegetables, more activity toward hobbies.  Will continue going through boxes and organizing papers.  Up earlier and to bed earlier.  Vitamins.  Typical thoughts.  That should just about do it.

I continue to detox from religious programming.  Reading the Bible for myself and not taking the interpretation of so called teachers and preachers.  Detoxing from being entertained from the well known ministries with living proof the teachers have so twisted the word of God to benefit their own pocket books and deceive people into becoming ecumenical minions that will easily AGREE to go back under one religious organization that presents themselves to be godly, but are so tangled up into bondage that the LORD JESUS set us free from many years ago. 

Who HE sets free is free indeed,
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