Merryies and happy new thingies to one and all,<\/p>\n
40 and dry here. We DID have some snow for a week or 2. Gave us a
chance to try out Helen’s x-country skies, as is evidenced by the over
excited skier in the 1st photo.<\/p>\n
Helen’s son Noah (a Junior at CMU music school in Pittsburgh) and
daughter Aya (a sophomore Road Island School of Design) and her
boyfriend Julian (a Junior in film studies at Emerson in Boston) came to
visit over xmas. 2nd photo shows Noah on the right testing Julian with
a card trick. The 2 eyed terrorist in the newly crocheted ski mask
eyeing the cameraman with suspicion is Aya.<\/p>\n
We somehow managed only 1 dress up xmas party (ok by us, as I don’t have
many dresses), a Mayo neurology department party. Pic 3 is we 2
lounging around in the Kahler Hotel lobby.<\/p>\n
And then there was xmas! Presents were opened and a turkey was cooked
(and eaten!). Zach decided to upgrade Jessy’s 13″ bedroom TV to a 36″
LCD (4th pic). Helen gave me a a Lego Mindstorm robot and a fine
Burton jacket. Aya gave Julian a Nerf gun (5th pic), but I think,
judging from her expression, she wishes she had gotten something safer
like DVD (Julian had much fun with that gun).<\/p>\n
Mom and Dad the wireless indoor helicopter you gave us boys (6th pic) is
amazing. Small, relatively save, well made, and runs for 4+ minutes
between recharges. And has 2 glowing red eyes, looks like a dragonfly.
At least it would if dragonflies had glowing red eyes. The 20
something question machine is fun also. The snowboard video game is a
bit too tricky for us bigger folk to balance on, but might work well
with smaller elf like people with amazing agility.<\/p>\n
The almost last pic is an upside down Zach installing a security system
in his Miata. His car was broke for a week, and causing much
frustration, but on one miraculous looong day, he fixed it, along with
the big red car that has been in our driveway all summer. AND he
cleaned the garage!<\/p>\n
Today was the day we were going to deposit Nick on a airplane heading to
China, but turns out his visa\/passport got sent to his college address,
rather than here. So he re-scheduled for next Friday and sweet talked a
Oberlin postmaster into re-directing his priority mail to here, so he
should be good to go in a week.<\/p>\n
The last photo is this months mystery photo. Seems last months duck
butt photo was too easy, so no hints this time.<\/p>\n
B<\/p>\n
ps. every try pan flipping 4 pancakes at once? It CAN be done … kind of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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