Happy New Year

After a rather quiet Christmas Eve and Christmas Day with just Margy and Wag and me(spent eating too much and opening gifts from the far flung family) Mary, Phil and Carmen arrived on Wed. and we spent the rest of the week celebrating Carmen's graduation and our 62nd anniversary. Besides a roast beef dinner and a scallops dinner two of the nights here we went out to a really great restaurant for the night of the anniversary and had an elegant meal. In this photo you see Carmen, Margy, Mary and the two of us sitting and digesting a meal from our local Italian restaurant called Tutto Bene. We will be back to our normal routine next week, but we will have our traditional New Year's Eve with our next door neighbors which we missed when we were gone and they never established another routine so they are glad to join us again. It is a long standing tradition dating back to when their kids and our grandkids joined us in a rousing game of Royal Rummy. We are at the age where the evening may end not with midnight here, but with the dropping of the ball in New York followed by our wishing each other happy new year and calling it a night. Happy New Year to All. Let there be Peace on Earth

snow visitor

This is what I saw when I looked out my window near the computer. It was about 2 p;m and the big one stood there transfixed for quite a while but you can see another one headed down the hill toward the lake. What a sight. We may not have elk or moose as you did, Dennis and Gloria, but this was quite a delightful treat. We are having very cold temps, but sunny skies the last couple of days and not much wind. They are having a real Minnesota winter for ius this year. We are keeping warm and mostly dry, Got a permanent and a pedicure today, Fixed up at both ends.