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<\/p>\n We had a quick but nice trip to Montana for xmas. Mom\u2019s village was as pretty as ever:<\/p>\n With hundreds of interesting characters, like these ice fishermen:<\/p>\n We shared buns with puns (insider joke):<\/p>\n And videos of Nick fishing in a toilet (rescuing his iPhone from deep in the trap with string, hook, and a monster magnet):<\/p>\n Mikaylie earned position of top puzzle solver:<\/p>\n And Zach and Mike as top Grandpa-wool-tie wearers:<\/p>\n And many chessmen fought brave battles:<\/p>\n We drove back home just before a big snowstorm hit. We woke up the next morning to find our crazy-deck-chair-perching fly-into-the-window-every-minute bird was back: <\/p>\n So we recruited the gorilla to scare-gorilla him away again:<\/p>\n But this time it did not make him a scared bird, it made him an angry bird:<\/p>\n And he continued fighting with his clone in the window. So then we recruited a canary and an owl. Now he is even angrier, but so far has been keeping off the chair:<\/p>\n If that doesn\u2019t work, my next strategy is to hire the squirrel. He is like the Mob Boss of our back yard. He owns it and chirps at me continusly if I happen to venture out when he is out on the wire. In this showdown, there was no question the birds would move:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We spent New Years with Noah, Nick, and Chloe. N&C wedding planning has begun. Here I am demonstrating how to in-correctly wear Helen\u2019s Sari, not because anyone is going to wear it to their wedding, but because it is fun:<\/p>\n We learned how to throw playing cards with high speed and distance:<\/p>\n If you do it right, you can slice fruit and vegetables. Lacking those (and the accuracy to hit them), we found various targets in the house:<\/p>\n Here we almost sliced off the top of one of our cacti \u2026 learned it has white blood:<\/p>\n The object in that first mystery photo was created using these: <\/p>\n A bunch of those snow crystals were melted, re-frozen, then re-formed using the tongue from one of these:<\/p>\n Like so:<\/p>\n We had lots of good snow to play in:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But unfortunately it was too cold to build into massive snowmen, so Nick went swimming instead:<\/p>\n Later he thoroughly embarrassed me by beating me in a chess game with his eyes closed (he wore me down):<\/p>\n But I got back at him by thoroughly beating him in a ski race (I wore him down):<\/p>\n And we all managed to have a good time skiing without breaking any major bones:<\/p>\n Nick invented new sport \u2026 how high and far can you trampoline bounce cheese off your shirt in a ski-lodge:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n