family&038;friends - Growing Old Disgracefully

Five Things

Published on December 31 2006

Uh, oh. The three scariest words in the world for somebody who can no longer run since knee surgery are "Tag. You're it". Old buddy Bill from InstaPinch surely picked a [insert favorite naval aviator terminology for extremely slow moving target here]...

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Quickie Christmas pics

Published on December 26 2006

Me and my gangsta daughters on Christmas Day..... One day, sometime in the future, I will get a photo of the three of us in which we all look good. No gangsta signs, no crossed eyes, no CLOSED eyes, no drool.... I swear, if I have to pay for it I will...

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Letter from Baghdad

Published on December 24 2006

Kidbrudder forwarded a letter from daughter-in-law Brooke (Hi Brooke and Mark!!); who included a couple of pictures from her recent musical evening with Darryl Worley and Mark Wills (although both of these pics are of Worley, I think--not being a country...

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post-shopping (tgid*) dinner

Published on December 23 2006

(*tgid= "Thank God it's DONE") The best thing---nay, the ONLY good thing about Christmas shopping on the VERY LAST SHOPPING DAY BEFORE THE HOLIDAY is the Chinese Buffet at the end. I had my shoes off underneath the table....ahhhhhh, heaven..... Santa's...

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new find

Published on December 22 2006

Was out to the folks' house a couple of days ago. Dad had some papers to show me, something we have been seeking for a very long time. My great-grandparents on my mother's side emigrated from Germany, arriving in Wisconsin around 1885. I have an oak kitchen...

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mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...............

Published on December 17 2006

The crewdudes and I decided that it's pretty bad when the "best prime rib I ever had" were the ones we smoked at work for our (early) Christmas dinner.

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Meet Adrian

Published on December 9 2006

My "Grandson", Adrian Abyss. The first boy child in our family. Isn't he just adorable? Such a sweet little guy... hey, I'm allowed to get googly over my grandson, right? He's only here for the weekend, but he is making his presence....umm...known. Yes,...