Jeremy Herndon

My wife asked me what I want to buy for a gift for my father for Christmas this year.  I told her that I was thinking about buying him a new watch.  Dad is very frugal, and has been wearing an old beat-up watch for way too long.  The crystal is scratched, and the plating on the band is worn off.  It just plain old looks nasty.I’ve asked him a few times why he keeps wearing that old watch and he keeps telling me that he just doesn’t see the point in throwing it away.  Having lived through the depression, he likes to quote the old “Wear it out, use it up, make it do or do without” mantra that we grew up with!

My biggest concern about buying Dad a new titanium watch that he might be sentimentally attached to that old watch, and really does not want to replace it.  Now he is not the kind of person to admit that he is sentimental about anything, so that is a hard call.  But my wife suggested that we buy him a watch stand for him to put his old watch on, and he could display it on his bedroom dresser in a place of honor.  I think that is a fine idea, don’t you?

I didn’t believe the weatherman yesterday when he said that we were going to get a snowstorm today. He has been wrong about our weather so much over the past couple of years! There have been so many times that school has been cancelled because the weatherman said it might snow (and it didn’t) that I just laughed when I heard yesterday that we were going to get at least an inch of snow today. Well, the joke is on me because we really are getting the first snow of the season today! And it is a beautiful storm; the flakes are very large and fluffy. It has been snowing for at least the last four or five hours now, which is very unusual for around here. We usually only a dusting. And yes, we have over an inch of snow. It is very pretty, and it IS making me think about Christmas being right around the corner!