SharivilleLife stories from Shari

We started our morning out at the big and wonderful VA hospital.  It’s big and it’s wonderful because of what it has to offer the very deserving veterans of this area.  They have everything there for the vets.  We made a field trip day of it, as Angie had an appt. there. So, all four of us went along with future plans for the rest of the day.  As we left the VA, it had just started to snow, Tommy took us on a tour of downtown Dallas. 

There among the skyscrapers the snow was falling in big lacy flakes and the really high skyscraper buildings were surrounded in snow clouds.  It was so beautiful everywhere.  We drove thru the Turtle Creek area where all the mansions and lovely landscaping is, and trust me, it’s even more beautiful with a couple inches of snow covering everything.  Then Tommy took us all to lunch at” Bone Daddy’s,”  that’s the place that rivals” Hooter’s ” for pretty, scantily dressed little waitresses.  They are really cute girls, and Jerry likes it better than “ Hooters.”  He thinks the girls are better looking. They certainly have a bit less on.  From there we headed out to finish the last little bit of Christmas shopping and food we needed for tomorrow.  By now it was snowing fairly hard.  We stopped at Wal Mart and Tommy found a wallet lying in the snow.  It was a very expensive Louie Viton wallet with $200 cash and lots of credit cards in it.  He tried to find a phone number and ended up calling the number on one of the credit cards.  They in turn called the owner of the wallet, who in turn called Tommy.  It was a great Christmas present for that man.  Imagine losing your wallet on Christmas eve, full of money and credit cards and having someone actually look you up to return it.  I told Tommy that he just got a really big feather in his wings for that special deed.  I tell Jerry that for every good deed done you get a feather in your wings, so when you get to heaven and get your angel wings they will be big and fluffy. I know that what Tommy did just made his Christmas for him because that’s the kind of person he is.  We even drove through a blizzard to give that man back his wallet, because by the time we found him and decided on a mutual meeting place it was almost a blizzard.

We then headed for home and along the way stopped at the firehouse to watch the firemen building a snowman, take pictures and then to Southlake Town center to take pictures of the plaza and tree and Santa’s village all covered in snow.  Tommy just drove us around in the snow while we all took pictures.  By the time we were ready to give up it was almost a white out and the windshield wipers were frozen.  It was 22 degrees with a wind chill of 10.  It was wonderful. The first time in my life that I ever got to drive around in a blizzard, cars were sliding everywhere.  Tommy is a good and safe driver so I never felt apprehensive, just delighted to be there, a once in a lifetime experience.  Both Jerry and I loved it.  Tomorrow we will wake up to a real white Christmas.