We’re having an Italian Christmas dinner on Monday. I’m trying to cook ahead. Here’s a picture of my son Mike stirring the meat sauce.
My sons Tony and Mike and my daughter Lindsay and her friend Christina and Nancy’s son Mike are all in visiting for the holiday.
Jim 
Tony is in visiting us this weekend. He arrived Thursday around midnight. Today we got haircuts at Joe’s by Tina and Joann. We don’t have a lot of hair but they did a great job addressing each hair we had! We went out for breakfast at I-Hop. Big and yummy. Skip the stuffed french toast…
Been a long time since my last blog post so I figured it was time to take care of that. We were downtown Chicago last night for the annual Woodhead Due’s outing. For the uninitiated, Woodheads are what Nancy and some of her college friends call themselves. Formed their own little group – each with…
Well, today we make our way home to TN. We’re in Montgomery, TX right now, just NW of Houston. We’ve been here for two nights. We’ll take 3 days to get home.
Two days after we got home from Tennessee, I came down with what the Dr. thinks is Poison Ivy/Oak/Sumac. If it’s true, I surely got it when I was walking our land. Here’s a picture of my eye the first day of “the breakout/reaction” By day two, my eye was nearly swollen shut and I…
We made it to the Hamiltonion Inn where Yorkiefest is being held. Friday night was the Ball. Must have been about 80 people and 50 dogs (first 2 images below). Today (Saturday) was Barktoberfest. It was held at the Hamilton, OH fairgrounds. Must have been about a dozen vendors selling all sorts of Yorkie and…
Nancy had a table at the Medinah Baptist Ladie’s Tea this year. She made a hostess gift for each place. She ordered a Christmas tea cup set and filled the cups with candies. She got the idea from Molly Richmond. They turned out very nice. Thanks Molly!