December 31, 2016
6:50 p.m.

This will be my last blog...

In 2016.

Next time I share my thought with you, it will be a brand new year. I look forward to it.

In the meantime, I would like to share with you a loving look back at celebrities we lost this year. We will remember them fondly:
http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/2016-year-in-review/look-back-all-famous-figures-who-died-2016-n698791

I would also like to share with you once again a loving goodbye to my sweet cousin, Rusty: https://pshablo.blogspot.com/2016/05/may-6-2016-900-p.html?spref=fb He was much too young and so, so missed by family and friends.

Also to my dear friend Annette Haney: https://pshablo.blogspot.com/2016/07/july-15-2016-1229-p.html?spref=fb  When I arrived in Wyoming this month, my first thought was of going to the office to say hello; it just keeps hitting me over and over again. I still haven't wrapped my head around losing her.

Please remember the people I grew up knowing in my little hometown who were called home this year:
Helen B Syndergaard
Frank Reyes
Floyd Johnny Ortega
Clora Arguello
Theresa Stephens
Joyce Davis Patterson
Dennis Seyersdahl
Toni Morgan
Leo Montoya
Laura Makie
Christopher Randles
Edward "Burt" Lucero
Ronald Bingham

There's no doubt in my mind that I've probably missed mentioning someone; these are people I knew personally and I hope you'll understand if I unintentionally left anyone out. They were all well-loved and missed by family and friends.

Many young--really young--people were called home this year. I have to believe that the good Lord is in need of a lot of good helpers to lend a hand in the coming years.

Anyway...good-bye, 2016. You've been tough on us, but we've ended up stronger and more determined than ever to make 2017 a better year for us all!
___________________________________________________________________________________

7:40 p.m.

In other thoughts, I have to express my gratitude to all of you who read this stuff. It keeps me busy--and also sane!--writing down the often nutty stuff that crosses what passes for my mind, and I appreciate the readership.

(Okay, which one of you questioned my sanity?)

(Oh. It was me.)
__________________________________________________________________________________

I'm wishing you all the Happiest of New Years. May all your dreams come true, may all your schemes succeed, may your blessing be many and your trials be few.

Live Long and Prosper!

Good night.