Addition

Sorry, I pushed the rong button and posted the picture before I typed the message to go with it. I guess it is sort of self explanatory. We had one very cold spell that lasted almost a week then it warmed up to 20 which seemed mild to us but now we will be subzero for several days but not as long and are due back in the 20's by Wed.
We are following the advice of the woman who when asked how she survived the cold winter, she said, "We go inside". We do manage to get out to get groceries, etc. and go to church in a warm car but we are spending a lot of time in our nice warm house. Many of these cold days have been bright and sunny so that helps. Keep warm wherever you are.!

anniversary

Our daughter Mary, husband Phil and our granddaughter, Carmen helped us celebrate our 63rd anniversary on Dec. 27th. Thay came the day after Christmas and we had a good visit including this dinner at our favorite restarant an Italian one called Tutto Bene and it is true as the name implies, Everything is good. We had our friends and neighbors, Bea and Ray Knodel with us for New Year's Eve. This is a tradition that has gone on for more than35 years. Our daughter-in-law, Margy got home from her holiday travels and we are looking forward to seeing lots of pictures of her visits with both grandsons and their families in San Francisco and Portland and New Years with Anna and Bryan in St. Paul. We hope everyone had a great holiday season and we have hopes that 2009 will be a really good year.