Scene from a side road

Christmas cards are finally done!

2007-12-31T20:15:31Z

This is the earliest I have finished them in several years. Sometimes, before, they didn't get mailed until the Chinese New Year. I sent 120, which is about three times what I received. Connie sent many more, too (she has lots of relatives and f...

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I feel like the "old" year is over now

2007-12-26T19:08:58Z

I feel like the old year (2007) is over now--but I do not feel like the "new year" has yet actually begun. Do we need to wait a whole week for that? The end has come, but not the "takeoff." It is kind of luck being stuck, changing planes at ...

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My wife made a fine dinner for Christmas day

2007-12-25T22:31:07Z

It was a pretty time-consuming operation, taking her more than two days. She chose traditional Italian foods, in the style of her own late mother. A big job! But boy was it good!

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Our family's song for Christmas morning

2007-12-25T13:32:37Z

We always sang this Santa song when coming down the stairs on Christmas morning to see what might have been left under the tree. By Santa himself! And to see if the cookies we left out had been eaten! The tradition came from my mother's family...

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Oyster Stew

2007-12-24T15:17:09Z

Another holiday practice in our family is to have oyster stew on Christmas eve. And apparently it is in many other families as well. Anyhow, it is a custom I like, a tradition--even though many people don't enjoy the soup all that much--and I do...

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New Mac Mini--early for Christmas

2007-12-24T01:14:31Z

This wasn't exactly a Christmas present, not really, since I paid most of the cost. But my son got it at the store--and said that the crowd at the Apple store was bigger than at any other place he shopped today. And he paid for part of it also....

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Lightly used Christmas presents

2007-12-21T17:44:14Z

Everybody who is getting presents from me this year is getting mostly items that are "used." Things I have had around the house for a while. Connie and I must move into a new home in a bit over a year, "down-sizing" from the two houses we own n...

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Our little Christmas tree for 2007

2007-12-21T16:55:38Z

Small, but I like it! The heart decoration reads "Our Christmas Together 2007." This is our first Christmas as a truly married couple. The gas pump says Route 66, which is where we got engaged a year ago.

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Holiday Blues

2007-12-20T07:53:27Z

I am a little bummed by the "mergerization" of all of the holidays (holy-days) from Halloween to New Year's. Christmas items were out so early! I wish each of the days was understood and celebrated separately, each in its own way. But of course...

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