Around the Blocks: Merry Christmas!

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas day, celebrating the birth of our Lord. Ours was very low key. Our Christmas Eve dinner with my brother and family was cancelled because they had been fighting the stomach bug. We saw Darkest Hour on Saturday night and last night we watched It's a Wonderful Life and White Christmas, and parts of A Christmas Story. Slept in today, visited our friends with the four children at home, then took off in search of a place to do some target shooting.

We found a place on the Catoosa Wildlife Management area about 50 miles away, but it was a nice drive. Not many out today on the roads. Our Christmas present to each other was a Henry .22 lever action repeating rifle. The reason? We had, what we believe to be, a coyote snatch our big lovable cat early last week.

This makes the third cat lost this way since we've lived in this location (15 years). Our neighbor told us he had heard several and seen one. There are too many around here, so I hope to eliminate at least one.