20111217 Putting up the tree!

A tree hugger.


We. Don't. Like. Our. Picture. Taken. While. Trimming. The. Tree. Grrr.


They did it all.


I was cutting up grapefruit. Really.

20111215 BDay. Again.

What?! My birthday?! Again?!


A really nice outdoor work coat from the TN Stiefels


I am now truly the envy of the geek world. I have my own StormTrooper snowflake!


The last Potter movie


Something else?


A 28 position ladder!


You would not believe the flak I caught for doing this. It wasn't even extended very far!

Coconut cake. Yummy!

20111215 My BDay gift

So at the local barber shop, my leetle zeebas went in and asked for a window message for this morning...

20111208 SKINNY SANTA!

In one of the neighborhoods through which I drive to and from work:



Yes, kiddies, it's "Skinny Santa" from the Rankin Bass "Rudolph" shows.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

20111206 Monica Winter Band Concert

After the Fiedler piece they got a standing-O

20111203 Curly?

Monica's friend gets a new curling iron...

20111201 Final Beard

IN the aftermath of a week without power, I stopped shaving and went November with the result.



Much too much gray.

20111124 Thanksgiving at The Fergusons

DINNER!



Then more games


And even outdoor games....someone liketh not to lose (notice Kushball on ground behind her)

20111125 Obligatory "Art" photos taken on the walk

20111124 TDay walk with Fergusons

Dan, his mom and sister




Wif Monica

20111124 Thanksgiving with the Fergusons

Um...they're getting along?!

20111122 Picking up Katie for TDay

Drove to Illinois to get Katie to come back for Thanksgiving in Syracuse.

20111030 Halloween Snow

Halloween Eve, 2011. Spent here...


Because of 24" here...




Little did I know at the time that the power would be out for over a week.

20111027 Monica National Honor Society

Ah, suffering the slings and arrows of the paparazzi


With her pals afterwards