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 Christmas comes but once a year---or so we were told many years ago.  But it seems with the ever-increasing rate at which we proceed through the days, weeks, and years of the calendar, Christmas must now come twice a year. Looking around on December 23, it appears that we have taken down all the Christmas decorations and stowed them away for another year.  But no, that can't be true, it must have been that we never dragged the decorations out of the closet and put them on display.  Display, display, that's the key word.  We recall that we were going to decorate the gate at the road front but decided against this display because so few travelers or neighbors come down our dead-end street that it would not be worthwhile.  Must be the same for all the decorations in the house because they never made it out of the closet this year.  That sure makes putting them back in the closet mid-January an easy task. When visiting the surrounding towns, it is apparent that decorating for Chri

 We often drive to Blanco to get outdoors and seek a cure for our cabin fever, to enjoy the local barbeque, and to hunt for books at the library.  We could get addicted to this if it weren't for some concern that this routine would lead to just another form of cabin fever. This time, we stopped for some gasoline and found the local people all in a buzz about the sighting of an extraterrestrial ship.  The first accounts were that it was all a hoax and then others came forward and told of the sighting which made us think that a mysterious ship did make a visit.  Nobody witnessed the craft's landing, but most sensed that there was some form of transport of a group of beings that somehow made the craft exit and then, without any commotion, they just melded into the mix of people of the area. Now that was a problem because we had always thought that ETs would not look and dress like us but instead have exaggerated bodies and some dress that suggested space travel.  We were assured t