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Waiting for the Game to Begin

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Hitting the Ball

At the softball game.  Getting ready to hit the ball.

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Teams Being Introduced 

Before the events began, the teams were called into the area and introduced.  

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Pre-game huddle

My church has a softball team that seems to play about once a week.  I finally had the chance to attend one of the games with my camera.  This was the pre-game huddle.  The church team wears the purple shirts.

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Christmas Artwork

One of the downtown Abilene businesses has this adorable artwork  on its plate-glass window:  

two colorful gnomes riding in the back of a red pick-up decorated for Christmas.

It will be too bad when the Christmas season is over and all this artwork is gone.

It was an unbelievable 85 degrees today.  How awesome is that when the northern part of the country is being blanketed by snow?

I checked the temps in Fairbanks, AK today.  It was -30.  

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Snowman Family~~downtown Abilene

There's a small park on one of the corners in downtown Abilene.  This snowman family decorates the park with greetings of happy smiles.  

This is a well-traveled area of the town, so more people can see the happy family.  Last year this display was in another park a few blocks away, but probably wasn't seen by as many people.  

MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU ALL.

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West Texas Rodeo

I love taking photos at rodeos.  This pic is from the rodeo  a few months ago.  

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Three Cowboys

Three cowboys awaiting the start of the yearly rodeo in Abilene, Texas at the Annual Fair and Rodeo.

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Hats for Sale

A hat mannequin in a Peruvian outdoor mall.

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Frosty and His Family

I went to town today just before dusk hoping to find some Christmas photo ops and I saw this fun display of Frosty and his family in one of the parks.  Many of the trees were wrapped with colored lights.

Today I retrieved two quilts that were recently finished from the quilter so now I have to put the binding on them.  One is for my granddaughter who will be two this spring and the other is an oversized lap quilt for me.  I'll be happy when they're finished.

 

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Calf Roping

This was an indoor venue and the camera self-adjusted to the necessary settings, so the image isn't great but it tells the story.

I LOVE rodeos and cowboys.

It was a good night.

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Abilene Rodeo

I've been busy this week and it's winter so I haven't been too inspired.  But just so I don't get further behind in posting one a day, I pulled this from my files from many months ago.

I'm grateful for:

a day's work which will turn into a paycheck

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Cowboys in Training

Grateful today for:

spending time doing some volunteer work today