5 Things We Know On A Sunday: Drive West Texas Friendly, You Light (LED) UP My Life, Cats And Christmas, Bell Ringing Rules, Thanks For The Memories Bob!

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5 Things We Know On A Sunday

1. I do my best to “Drive Texas Friendly” around West Texas and whatnot. I give the little hand-wave-acknowledgement when possible or at least a sturdy head-nod to let them know I see them. Particularly on Farm-To-Market roads this is just the right thing to do. When I don’t get a wave back, I assume it’s someone who actually knows me…I often wonder if this is just a West Texas Thing or if it goes on all around the Great State of Texas…
2. I’m getting used to seeing more and more of the L.E.D. Christmas Lights on houses and decoration. While not my favorite, I am begrudgingly accepting some of their advantages. The ability to change colors and patters is cool. That said, with all the technology of the day, why can’t we also make them look like the old, big bulb, multi-colored Christmas Lights of the 60s and 70s? You’d think there would be a setting the could label, ” Old Man – Loves Snoopy’s Dog House”. The company that does this will make millions.
3. I am convinced that all cats believe that everything about Christmas is all about them. From the trees to crawl up in, the ornaments to play with, boxes and boxes to crawl in and all of the strange lights, cats must think we really love them this time of year. That or as our household masters and overlords, they just expect this and actually have no gratitude about them at all. One or the other is true.
4. I feel bad every time I walk by a Salvation Army Kettle and don’t put something in it. I try to at least have some loose change when I know I’m going by one like at United Supermarkets in Lubbock. I love the fact they have bell ringers. It’s even better when it’s little kids out there helping. Always, always, always, give the money to the kid and let them put it in the kettle. That’s the rule. Each year I think I’m gonna sign-up for a shift and ring the bell and each year it gets away from me. I won’t if they’d mind it I set-up a small wet bar and stool while I’m out there? Something classy. Like The Dean Martin Red Kettle Set-Up. Maybe Next Year.
5. The Bob Hope Christmas Specials were and will always be the Gold Standard of TV Christmas events. From 1953 to 1994, Bob Hope gathered a country and at times even the world around a common fireplace. It’s things like this that helped form a sense of community in America and something we dearly miss today in our fragmented society of social network algorithms. I don’t know that there is a personality alive today who could pull it off and then you’d have to have a network everyone could agree to watch at the same time. . . We lost a lot of America and a sense of the season when things like that went away. If you grew up a young kid in West Texas, there was nothing betting than seeing the All-American Team being introduced and a Red Raider was there! Thanks for the memories, Bob!

Hyatt

Thanks for taking a few minutes to read our Sunday musings. Have a great, cold December day and we’ll see y’all in the morning as we start off a huge week of Texas Tech basketball, CFB Playoff games and even those now meaningless bowl games. Get your Good, Bad & Ugly weekend recap ready to go!