REDNECK CHRISTMAS

I can hardly remember when things at 900 Post Oak Road looked like this. Now the driveway is right through the middle of those trees.

There's a house now where these trees once stood.

Two years ago we attended our first 7R Ranch Christmas party. Tex and Nellie beneath the 7R moon.

Jay Novacek with his little girl, Mcainley. Don't ya just love that this big ole football player is holding his daughter's doll? No wonder he was good at catching footballs.....check out the size of that hand.

My YOUNGER sister and me on Santa's lap. (that's a Christmas present for her....she always wants everybody to know she's 16 months younger!) I asked for a brand new car and she asked for all the money back that she'd lost in the stock market that year. He told us we'd both been naughty and handed us a lump of coal. Ruined my night.

Because the house is not ready and we have no room at the apartment for our son who is coming from Houston, we are spending a redneck Christmas at the Longhorn Inn. No other place in Gordon to stay. You know you might be a redneck if you buy a half-price ($14.99) Martha Stewart Christmas tree at Home Depot to bedeck your motel room.

We won't be spending all our time at the Longhorn Inn. By Friday the house will be complete except for a few minor things and the final cleaning. We will be able to take our camo folding chairs and sit by the fireplace. Of course, yesterday it was a record 85 here. I think on Christmas day it will be in the high 40's. We will have light, heat and working toilets. What more do you need?

You might be a redneck if you have a coon dog on your porch and display the Confederate flag! This was taken when the Longhorn was under management by the previous owner. The Confederate flag is no longer there and I haven't see the hound in a coon's age.

There are several famous rednecks within a short distance of this motel. Alice Walton's Rocking W Ranch is just east of here and Ty Murray and Jewel live down the road in Stephenville 23 miles south of the motel.

You might be a redneck if you eat your Christmas dinner at the Iron Skillet Truck Stop in Weatherford. That will be the only place open on Christmas day. But, the food at that truck stop is awesome! Believe me. I've gained 10 pounds this year stopping to eat at that place.

When you come to visit, we won't take you to the truck stop for dinner. We'll kick off our boots and get all gussied up and go on down the road to Weatherford to eat at the Fire Oak Grille. The chef there is a redneck from Ft. Worth, Eric Hunter, who won the 2006 competition on Iron Chef. He beat some Japanese chef in what they called the "Chili Peppers" battle.

We're heading out to the ranch tomorrow morning so I won't be posting until after Christmas. Here's wishing ya'll the most wonderful Christmas ever. I hope you get to spend it with your loved ones. We'll be missing our sweet grandson and his mommy and daddy.

MERRY REDNECK CHRISTMAS!

Nervous Nellie (Dad-gummit! Why do the last paragraphs always run together? I can't change it.)