Holiday get together #5 - too many to count

Last night we attended a party at friends house in Troy, Il. This was their annual holiday party mostly for the old van club people. It's always a fun time seeing everyone. Carol & I stayed at a hotel a couple blocks from their home so we wouldn't have to drive home in the wee hours of the morning. It works out great.

Christmas Get Together #4 ?

Another get together and once again it was very nice and again, I ate too much. This is getting to be a habit.

We had mostacholi and ham tonight.

Christmas Day

Merry Christmas

It was good to get together with the family. We had a good time, but I ate too much. The $5.00 gift exchange/steal was fun as usual. I got the best gift but I also had the highest number.













Carol says: Two crabby brothers:

Christmas Eve

Last night we had the family over and ate lasagna and opened gifts.


The food was good and we had a great time.

Early Christmas

We had a few friends over today and of course ate too much.









Afterward we just relaxed!

Carol's button Christmas Tree

Christmas will be here soon

Craig's Latest Paintings

I haven't been on here lately so I thought I would post a few of Craig's paintings that he recently painted. He must get his talent from his Mother.

Cold, dreary day

Today was a cold, cloudy, rainy day and we even had a few flurries. We needed something to do today so Carol made soup:

I changed our brown bathroom into a blue bathroom. Our master bath was brown for a year and a half, time for a change.

Veterans Day

Happy Veterans Day

Dave Sinclair, a local car dealer with several American brands has been on TV and the radio with ads talking about buying American made products to help our country out.

Last week on my way home from work I listened to him on a talk show. He was very convincing and at the time I was driving Carol’s Honda. I almost drove it to his dealership to trade it in on an American car.

Today I was at the Sinclair Buick dealer getting brakes and inspections on my Buick. I was sitting in the waiting room and in walks Dave Sinclair talking to the 4-5 of us in there. Then he hands out books to everybody, “How Americans Can Buy American”. He sat down for a few minutes and talked about how American products are sometimes hard to find but they are out there.

After that speech I told Carol that her car has to go. She said she will take a Saturn Sky, the car she wanted in the first place. I don’t think so.