Christmas Baking

Well, Christmas is just about upon us and I wanted to share this wonderful link! Have fun looking for the perfect cookie, cake, pie, candy and bread recipes! http://www.northpole.com/Kitchen/Cookbook/

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!

Make a Smilebox greeting

A Great Memory

Note: I try not to mention big names in my blog because I don't want the "whole world" knowing our personal business. My sister Victoria sent me this picture recently and it brought to mind a wonderful memory I would like to share. Several years ago while in Seattle we went to an absolutely wonderful restaurant in Tacoma with Victoria and Dan and their friends Gary and Donna and JoAnn and Craig. As one does when they hang out with these folks we drank and dined and drank some more. As dinners go, it was a "10". I might add that our 1/4th of the tab was over $200.00! Anyway, back to the memory! After dinner we went to a glass blowing studio, as I recall, within walking distance of the restaurant. The setting is like an amphitheater and we were lucky enough to see some glass blowing action. The picture above is that of many hand blown glass flowers that are just laying in a glass overpass near the studio! I wanted to lay down on the dirty sidewalk to view it overhead but Victoria had the brilliant idea to grab my two feet, Steve grabbed me under the arms so that I was laying down, thus making it possible to take all this beauty in without the neck strain or the dirty clothes.  This experience was like being a human kaleidoscope and it was the icing on my evening's cake!

Marc in Thailand

As some of you may know, Marc is in Thailand. From the look on his face, in all the pictures we've seen so far, he is having a wonderful time! It would be great to go and see what he is seeing first hand but for now we will have to live vicariously thru him. Stay safe Marc and keep those pictures coming!

Bonus Visit!

What a lovely surprise! Victoria came for a visit this last week and we had a grand time! The waitress snapped this picture just before we started our usual "crying fest"! Nothing to be concerned about, we cry about anything!

This is the Asian Museum in San Francisco. Victoria is the one on the far left.