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Saturday, December 22, 2007

A Marine's Christmas

I hope everyone is having great holidays and Christmas will be very special. I especially wish the best to our troops overseas and away from home and family. Thank you for your service to our country and keeping us safe and free.

Please go read todays post by Fire and Ice. He is a Marine Corps artist. I wish him the best Christmas and New Year. Scroll down and read the poem about the night before Christmas and the music.

We will not get to see our former Marine for Christmas. David, Lisa and our favorite two grandchildren, Cole and Christy live in Kentucky. We hope they have a great time, too. Here is David and Lisa from just a few years ago. :) The rest of us along with Gene's brother, Roger, will be here in Texas, playing a little golf, eating lots of tamales and posole.

10 comments:

David said...

I don't know who those two people are that you put a picture of up but it doesn't look like Lisa and myself:) Where do you drag up those old pictures.

Anyway all kidding aside, Merry Christmas to you all and we are going to miss you guys for Christmas this year. We will also be eating a lot of tamales, chili rellenos (chili balls for Dad) and plenty of posole.

Merry Christmas

Jo Castillo said...

I was a little unsure of the identities myself. :) We will miss you guys, too, and will be thinking of you ... and calling I am sure.
Hugs,
Mom

Joanna said...

Mom and her scary archive of photos! Merry Christmas to all. :)

Jo Castillo said...

Merry Christmas to you, too, Joanna. I'm digging in the photo files as we speak. Heh, heh.
Mom

Bag Blog said...

We will do the tamales tonight along with some enchiladas and margaritas.

Thanks for posting the Fire and Ice link. I check on his blog often, but he has not posted lately. I'm glad you reminded me, although I got sidetracked by his art.

Merry Christmas.

Jo Castillo said...

Bag Blog, Tamales do seem to go with Christmas. :) The sculptures that Michael, Fire and Ice, are doing are just beautiful and so telling. Amazing artist.

We opened Christmas presents early this evening as Larry had to work tomorrow and Joanna went home for the night. It is quiet and peaceful.

Merry Christmas...

Valerie Jones said...

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas!!

Joan said...

Jo, I hope you had a wonderful Christmas. I visited the Marine Corps artist's website. What great work he's doing! That poem he posted was so touching.

Enjoy!!!

Anonymous said...

what a sweet couple

Jo Castillo said...

Valerie, we did have a great Christmas. Back to the two of us today and it is soooo quiet here.

Joan, Those Marine artists are great. I hadn't realized until sometime last year, I think, that the Marines still had artists. They are amazing.

Azul, thank you. They are pretty special.


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I Grew up in a small town , Magdalena, New Mexico. I enjoy art and the pleasure other people get from my work. I always donate some of my sales and art to charities, especially for children. That started in Bolivia with Para los NiƱos. "I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colors. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns." -- Winston Churchill

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