Christmas in TX

Finally getting around to posting some photos of the Texas visit over Christmas...

Around my parents' place:

Dad with his miracle machine - an old refrigerator converted to a smoker:

A huge hunk of meat on the grill:

And ready to be eaten:

Our favorite honky-tonk, Joe's Bar:

Where almost everyone drinks beer, but if you order wine they ask you two questions - (1) Red or white? and (2) Large or small? (The large holds half a bottle of wine and costs four dollars.)

And finally, our New Year's Eve bonfire, at which Emily shot Mike in the crotch with a roman candle, causing Kelly to laugh so hard he stumbled into the electric fence:

An auspicious beginning to 2010.