Was Santa good to you?

[hogan]

Let's hear about the new toys.

My better half brought me.

Nikon 3-9x40 bdc
RCBS powder scale
RCBS powder trickler
reloading blocks
and my favorite chocolate. Ferraro Rochere sp?

A very politically incorrect Merry Christmas to all of you.

 

[Cooperhawk]

Got new Snow Pacs and a few other little things, but the very best was sitting around the formal dinner table eating prime rib with all the children and grandchildren. In my old age that is my one great joy.

We eat, and talk and laugh. Even the children have learned to join in and have a good time.

It was absolutely great. Then they spent the night, and now they have left to go to in-laws homes for another dinner, but not before Christmas Stockings, coffee, and sweet rolls from Grandma this morning.

Now the house is mysteriously quiet.

 

[bogus bill]

This one kind of sucks. We started out yesterday to visit one of the daughters in southern California. I had a stomach ache and was hoping it would go away. We got a 100 miles and had to turn around. Didn't want to infect them. I have the real thing. The way I look at these things it could well have been intervention from the lord as maybe we would have been killed down the road. I dont recall being so sick in 20 or 30 years!

 

[GunnyGene]

I don't have a fireplace/chimney, so his damn reindeer crapped all over my roof. :wink: :shock:

 

[Phoenix too]

I got books... six or seven, Naked Statistics, Age of Reason, Lies My Teacher Told Me (second edition), Innumeracy, The Swerve, Collapse. Should be fun reading, but the best, the one I was really looking for, is David Harp's, A Band in My Pocket . Guess it is eight!

 

[4kdave]

My big gift was a Snow Plow for my ATV but didn't come with the rail mount so hope our first snow ( looks like tonight ) will be a small one. Got a couple books, Jeans & long sleeve T shirt.
Just finished a Prim Rib Dinner and am stuffed !!!!!!
Also won Charlie"s Karma for an Eagle Claw fishing reel, so all & all a GREAT CHRISTMAS

 

[RugerHound]

Mrs. Rugerhound & I don't exchange much in the way of significant gifts. Mostly just silly and inexpensive junk. We typically do our Christmas shopping AFTER Christmas when the deals are hot and prices are low!

. I did get a fine pellet rifle (1200 fps) however. My 1st in 64 years.

(I had real guns when other kids had BB & Pellet guns!)

 

[BlkHawk73]

Got a few items, mostly Kiss (the band) related. If I so desire, I get to go on the Kiss Kruise again as well. Just not one for the whole Christmas thing and were it not for the boy, would treat it like any other day. Be just as content if I opened nothing at all. So long as I get to see a smile on our son's face and have his "thanks Dad" hug my day is 100% complete.

 

[737tdi]

Well, to start, my Christmas was 24 hours straight at Southwest Airlines. It was voluntary though, hard to turn down triple time. Did gift giving between Judy and I when I got home. I was able to open my special edition NRA 10/22 takedown. I really like it, fit and finish are a bit better them my other TDs.

A belated Merry Christmas to y'all and I wish you a great New Year.

Semper Fi:

Karl

 

[contender]

Well, ours isn't over yet, as our "kids" (our two grown sons & their families) are coming out tomorrow. But, Miss Penny did get me a couple of specialty reloading tools I've wanted. A pair of gas check makers to make my own gas checks for a few of my preferred calibers.

But we were able to spend Christmas day with my sister & her son & his family. I gave my nephew's son (age 3) a toy gun, that lights up & makes noise when you pull the trigger. When this kid opened it, his smile was the best. It made his mother a little nervous. She's English & has limited exposure to firearms. We are carefully working on that. She's not anti,,, just uneducated a bit. We have had her out shooting & there are plans for more days like that. But to see her son smile,,, and daddy give me a quick smile & look that said; "it figures" made my day.

 

[Colonialgirl]

We didn't exchange gifts and didn't set up a Christmas tree for the two of us.
I HAD thawed out the other half of the Thanksgiving turkey (cut in half while frozen when purchased) and it got roasted for a delicious Turkey dinner with mashed potatoes and steamed Broccoli; a bit late Ice cream for desert (Breyers, from Publix, a BOGO bargain).
The 24th, a Fedex package arrived at the door; a box from Wolferman's in Medford OR. that had a variety of FRESH English Muffins and a small jar of Strawberry Jam (DELICIOUS), a jar of Blueberry preserves (not tried yet) and on of an apple butter. It was all packed in a nice red tin bread box. It was a gift from my daughter. The other great thing on Christmas day was a call from my Grand daughter to wish me a MERRY CHRISTMAS and to thank me for the toll house cookies.

 

[Bryan]

It was good here. I got a etrex10 gps, a 22 cal bullet molds a couple of predator calls. But the best gift was my FIL walked to the kitchen with his walker on his own. It's been 4 years sense his stroke.

 

[Fox Mike]

My wife gave me an NRA Gun Collectors Logbook, a Shooters Bible, and a Gun Dealers Guide. Knows the way to my heart. That and a few pairs of Wranglers I 'hinted' that I needed. Going to my daughter's home today to get with the entire clan and pass around gifts. With so may parents, kids, grand-kids, and great-grand kids we have started a 'tradition' of drawing names and each person is responsible for a gift for only one individual..EXCEPT the great-granddaughter. This will be her last Christmas as THE great grand kid...her mom is due to give her a sister/brother in April.

 

[Acorn]

Good here. My favorite gift this year is the first season of Rockford Files on DVD. I hope the show holds up as well as I remember. It might cost me money buying the rest of them if it does.

 

[Badger Matt]

The missus works at Cabela's and used their one weekend of super duper employee pricing to buy me an Alaknak tent with the wood-burning stove and a nice pair of compact binos. I worked out a deal with Santa where we'd just concentrate on the week or so before Christmas when I was on my best behavior and he'd let me buy my own gift - a 470 Nitro Express double rifle. Hey, I was pretty good that week.

 

[Pat-inCO]

Good and bad.

Good:
The afternoon of the 24th I received a Daisy Red Rider BB gun.
Just like the one I got for my 5th birthday in 1948. LOVE IT!

Bad?:
With the RR came a catalog of "other" air guns. There was an RWS
pistol I just couldn't live without. It should get here Tuesday. 8)

Good-bad, Good-good? :shock: .

 

[Ethang]

Santa was very good to my wife and I this year. Both kids, their spouses and the grand kids came in and my SIL got released from the WI Guard call up in time to make it for Christmas morning. Next year they are all moving south so might not have too many more like this one.

Material gifts kinda were not high on my priority list.

 

[turd]

We all have different ways of relating to "Santa", but the best thing that could have happened to me did. My 90 YO mother got herself to the table with her walker and actually ate some ham, cheddar potatoes and scalloped corn that my wife prepared for Christmas dinner (which we brought to their house).

Today she was up and at the kitchen table again for tea when I stopped there this afternoon.

That, to me, is quite a blessing, and quite a gift. (She's not been well for a while.)

 

[737tdi]

Wow, Turd, that is awesome. I hope your mother lives to 100. God bless her and everyone here on the Forum. My mother had a stroke last year so I "get it".

Karl

 

[6gun]

Nope nothing cool this year were kind of broke right now, the old lady got me a new zip up hoody she said I needed something warmer to walk my dog in at night than my sweat shirt, she also said if I don't stop calling her Homie when I put the hood on she's going to take it away :lol: :lol:

 

[jrod]

I got another lump of coal! LOL!!