Opinion filed January 10, 2008

                                                                        In The

    Eleventh Court of Appeals

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                                                          No. 11-07-00357-CV

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                               CAROL JOHNENE MORRIS, Appellant

                                                             V.

                           GREATER IDEAL BAPTIST CHURCH AND

                 MIDLAND CENTRAL APPRAISAL DITRICT, Appellees

                                         On Appeal from the 238th District Court

                                                         Midland County, Texas

                                                 Trial Court Cause No. CV46225

                                             M E M O R A N D U M   O P I N I O N

Carol Johnene Morris has filed a pro se notice of appeal challenging the trial court=s Adenial of her motion for judgment by default.@  We dismiss the appeal.

When the notice of appeal was received in this court, the clerk of this court wrote the parties advising them that it appeared that the order Morris was challenging was not a final, appealable order and asking Morris to respond showing grounds for continuing the appeal.  Morris has responded by  outlining the various documents she has filed in both the trial court and this court.  Morris expresses her frustration with the legal system and alleges that she proceeded in the trial court under a certain strategy because she Aanticipated the District Clerk=s office withholding the necessary pleadings, and because of the highly illegal improprieties@ she had previously observed.  Morris also complains of this court=s denial of her petition for writ of mandamus without a written opinion as permitted by Tex. R. App. P. 52.8(d).  Morris has not established how this court has jurisdiction to entertain her appeal from the trial court=s denial of her motion for a default judgment.

This court lacks jurisdiction to entertain this appeal.  Therefore, the appeal is dismissed.

PER CURIAM

January 10, 2008

Panel consists of:  Wright, C.J.,

McCall, J., and Strange, J.