Goodbye 2025... Hello 2026....

There is about 6 more hours left of 2025 as I type this.

I don't have many complaints for 2025. Like life usually goes, there were good things and not so good things, but fortunately, nothing so bad that it would make me hate it and want to kick it's memory to the curb.

I accomplished a few things, had some fun, learned some stuff.....and avoided stuff I don't like the best I could. LOL... You know, just life. I mean, I LOVE life, but I mean, there's no perfection and I don't expect it.

A couple of weeks ago when I came home from somewhere, the afternoon sun was slanting through the small stand of trees between my house and the one next door. It was hitting the orange-brown leaves of the shorter tree in the middle, making it stand out so amazingly beautiful. I took this photo with my phone. I thought surprisingly it came out well for a phone photo. Quite a nice fall image.

I bought myself a purple calendar book for this year. It got here yesterday. I have never kept one formally. In November I was putting some things in a Google Calendar, but by December I was thinking that Google didn't need to know everything. They are such spies already. Still, I liked putting my appointments and happenings on a calendar for that small time and decided I would actually buy a book of my own and see how much I actually would use it. I think I will use it a lot, but I'm not totally sure. I already entered a thing or two last night. My older sister has had one for years, although she really does have much more to keep up with than I do, being she has grown children... in their 40s already! .... and several Grandchildren as well. She says she couldn't keep up with everything if she didn't keep one.

Do you keep one?

In the last couple of months I bought some clothes and loungers and the such and whatever I bought, if there was a purple one, that is what I got. I even bought two purple coats. All my coats were old and worn, so I bought a heavy one and a lighter one, two different styles, both purple. I like purple, but it has never been my very favorite color. I think I just needed to feel like I was getting something different. It seems I have kept with that notion.

I ate my last Christmas Cookie and Pecan Snowball this week. It's been a fun run, but for real, my body will be so much happier now that it won't be full of junk. LOL !!!! My tongue will be sad though till it gets back in the groove of my normal.

Bye-bye cookies... I love you! 💙

A photo of my Mother's front porch with her flag and the giant Japanese Maple tree. I don't think they were supposed to get that big here, but there has always been magic soil on her land. No complaints as there is always something beautiful growing there to enjoy.

God Bless America... right? We need some of that about now.

...and of course before I go, there had to be at least a tiny bit of collage. You would think you were in the wrong place if I didn't show you a hint of my wonky art. It's in my tiny sketch book I showed you not too long back. The background paper says "I wondered what the seagulls were trying to tell us". I think I wrote it one time when I was thinking back on how some seagulls were circling the parking lot of a Kmart store here a number of years back, when we are nowhere near the coast. It was so odd to see. Certainly it meant something, but I don't know what.

So here we go again!

I'm wishing you the Happiest of New Years. I hope 2026 holds all you need.... and more!

Love You! Mean it !

Jacey