I, too, hope each and every one of you have a happy and safe holiday season!

We've all had quite an eventful year together in 2010, and let's hope the weather is kinder to everyone in 2011.

Thank you all for your friendship and for all the times we've shared with one another.

I hope Santa brings everyone what they want for Christmas.

Dawn

I just pray for safe traveling mercies and good health for all this holiday season and in 2011 along with bountiful harvests for everyone from our gardens. I also realize without all of the challenges we each face in this area gardening the rewards wouldn't be so rewarding. I'm thankful for the health that allows me to continue to do what I enjoy. Jay

Mary Christmas and may God bless you, and your garden in the coming year.

James.

Happy Holidays Everyone!

May we all know peace and joy this season and the coming year, may our harvest be plentiful and hearts be full!

Metta,
Ezz

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

I thought that we were going to have snow tonight, but that has been cancelled.
At least last Christmas morning we woke up to snow.

Keith

Keith

That is a beautiful greeting, it's also as close to snow as I want to get.

Merry Christmas everyone.

Larry

Merry Christmas to all. All though Christmas night temp is supposed to be 16, at least we don't have ice like we did last year. Having a laid back Christmas here. We just went to see True Grit, and tomorrow will be having dinner with friends. I made a cheesecake for tomorrow and that is the only thing tempting me right now....love cheesecake.

Carol,

We are going to have a pretty laid back Christmas as well. Tim's and Chris are working tonight so I'm having an ultra-quiet Christmas Eve, which is perfect after a very busy month. Tomorrow we'll spend a few hours with family and then chill out for the rest of the day.

We're going down to 26 degrees tonight but the streets were still wet at sunset and there's a lot of puddles and the air is sort of misty though not drizzly. I'm hoping the water dries off the roadways before the temps dip below freezing.

I wanted to make a cheesecake, but no one eats it much except me, so I made simple confetti cake cupcakes for the kids and peach cobbler (from frozen, home-grown peaches, of course) for everyone else. After having the traditional pumpkin pie and pecan pie at Thanksgiving, we don't usually repeat it at Christmas. I didn't want to eat a whole cheesecake myself, so I didn't make one.

What did you think of True Grit?

Dawn

True Grit is a good movie. Al said that his friends told him it was a lot more like the book than the first movie was. It is well done. It does have a bit of a strange ending, but I think you would like the movie.

Merry Christmas from me as well...blessings on all of you AND your gardens in the coming year!

Sharon

And thanks to all for the joys of gardening with friends on the forum. I feel like we've experienced everyone's ups and downs thru 2010, and we'll be there for each other in 2011, God willing and the creek don't rise. We've welcomed many new people and remembered those no longer on the forum. We've definitely left a fingerprint on the Oklahoma Gardening Forum. I extend a special thanks to those who have given me tons of support and laughter in my vegetable gardening debut and y'all know who you are.

Dawn, I don't think gardening in Oklahoma will ever be easy by a long shot, and each year seems to present us with a new set of problems in this environment. But it sure seems easier when we have people here to help us along, to emphathize, and to conjure up solutions to problems we encounter.

Thanks and may you all be blessed with the benevolence of God in 2011.

Susan

Merry Christmas, friends!

Diane

Diane, Your child's comment on your blog made me laugh, when they said as they dug into another plate of cookies delivered by the neighbors. "Ooh, we picked out a really GOOD place to live!"

My little neighbor girl came to the door with a card and a little package with an ornament in it. I said, "I don't have yours wrapped yet would you like to wait until it is wrapped or would you like it now?" Without hesitation she said, "I would like it now!" Christmas is for kids. LOL

As I read this thread, the thought came to me that your child was right by saying, "Ooh, we picked out a really GOOD place to live!" I think Oklahoma is a good place to live and we are blessed to have such good friendships here on our forum. May your yard be lovely and your food be plentiful in the gardening year to come.

Merry Christmas, everyone, and thank you so much for your welcoming spirit and sharing nature. You are a wonderful bunch, and I agree with Carol .... Oklahoma is a good place to live!

Suzie

Merry Christmas! I didn't get on the Internet much yesterday. Our son and daughter-in-law came over, and our two daughters were both home. One daughter just returned from a semester in Ecuador. So it was a good reunion. Jerreth asked for duck, for Christmas dinner. So I butchered a young Muscovy drake. It was a good thing I have insulated overalls. I sat outside, in a lawn chair, plucking and fixing that bird for hours, as he still had pin feathers under the regular feathers. But he dressed out at nearly 12 lb. What a great dinner! We had sweet potatoes and green beans, from the garden.

George
Tahlequah, OK