I'll get the front vandyview tomorrow night if it kills me
Two browns and a grey. Two tans. Those are the dogs. But I am now the only person in my family WITHOUT a full beard. From time to time Dave and Grant have had various configurations of facial hair. But I think this is definitely a first for all 3 at once.
The occasion for the visit last night was for Grant to install our new receiver in our home theater system. He has the same one so it was pretty easy for him. And I know how to get it to play my CDs and turn the volume up and down, so I'm set.
Magi came over too, so the Corgis had the usual dogathon. The above candid is amazing in that 4 of the 5 are standing relatively still. Today is my birthday (60-ugh-01), but tomorrow we are going out to dinner at Sperry's before we go to the Frank Sinatra party. It's being held at a friend of the boy's who lives one short walk from us, so they are going to crash at our house after. Sperry's is one of the few restaurants in Cool Springs that takes reservations. I'll try to get some nice frontal beard views then. Who knows? Maybe the beards will be gone by then.
The picture on the left is of Mojo after the dogathon. He's a little tired. Take a look at that tongue. There's some serious panting going on!
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Bill and I had a wonderful time with Dave and Erin at Erin's parents, Roger and Muriel Pfaff, in Marietta, GA. We drove down on Sunday and spent 2 nights at a Drury Inns & Suites, but ate all our meals (except the free breakfast at the motel) with the Pfaff's. Erin has one sister, Alison, and her boyfriend, Mike, were also in attendance. Mike is a med student at MCV, where Bill's brother Jim went (a few year's ago!).
We got hooked on dominoes, which we played when we weren't eating one of Murierl's wonderful meals. Of course, when we played we ate homemade cookies and candy, made by Erin and her mom. Dinner Sunday night was a wonderful chicken dish over pasta; Christmas Eve was 2 kinds of hearty homemade soups and homemade rolls; and Christmas dinner was prime rib. Wow! Were we impressed. Best thing to me: sticky pecan rolls at Christmas breakfast. Super yum.
On Christmas Eve we went to a candlelight service at 11:00 p.m. at the Pfaff's Lutheran church. It felt very similar to our Methodist candlelight service. I think the big Christmas present was something called a Wee, an interactive games thingy played on your TV. Like all playstation things, it's beyond me.
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Favorite Quotes
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life . . . PicassoBe who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind . . . . . . . Dr. SeussThe truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away . . . Robert M. Pirsig "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret . . . Henri-Fredric AmielWhat worries you, masters you . . . . Haddon W. RobinsonWhen we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience , so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape . . . Louise Erdrich in The Plague of Doves
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