Merry Christmas Alma Luna - where ever you are.

Where ever you may be this holiday season...I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Please accept my good tidings and good will. Know that I will always remain a true friend who will be with you in spirit and soul...if not in person. Please remember what this holiday stands for...what it celebrates...and that his birth was to forgive the sins for which we all have committed.

This is a time of year that brings great reflection of times past...and of our own self worth. It also brings together family...friends...and love. Being the later 2 of the 3...I still feel your soul and the connection we once shared. I hope you still do as well. I plead with you not to be consumed by hate...14 years is a very long time to hate anyone. Life is too short as it is...and I would not wish such a fate on even my worst enemy...of which you never were. If Jesus can find it in his heart to forgive me of my sins...can you not too? I only wish to make peace with all those who I may have done wrong. To make the wrong things right. It is not impossible for those who believe in the spirit of Christmas. I believe that you have that spirit inside...just as I do. Let us try to become better people in what time we have left on this world. I can think of no better gift to ask this holiday season than that. Thank you Alma for making my life worthwhile...if only for a brief time. It will last forever in my memories...my soul...and my heart.

Merry Christmas!

Just how much food can a small kingsnake eat? Well...if this photo is any indication...quite alot. This is one of my kingsnakes...a wild caught intergrade specimen from San Diego. It took this little female about 45 minutes to get the mouse down...but it finally did it! 

Look at this antique California license plate from 1928. It is hard to believe, but my cousin and I found this plate not more the 50 feet off of Azusa Canyon Road...near Crystal Lake. You would have thought that with all the people from LA going there since before 1928; there would be nothing left to find. What really makes this interesting is that it is an "Exempt" government plate. It was near an old auto frame in some rocks...maybe an old police car ran off the road chasing gangsters back then?