New Year's Eve

A New Year's Resolution Is Something That Goes In One Year And Out The Other.

As 2010 comes to a close, I would like to share with everyone, my annual holiday missive with everyone. Here is the card that I sent my family and my extended family this holiday. There has been one chance since this was issued. Please see the Editor's Note At The End.

-1° On New Year's Eve!

The thermometer as Saga and I went out for our walk at 05:00 read -1°. (That would be -18.3333 for those of you who use the Celsius scale!) Yesterday it seemed that they might have been wrong about the storm. Perhaps yet another storm might miss us. Then the temperatures started falling and so did the snow! By the time I got home at lunchtime I had 3" in my snow gauge. By sundown there was a good 6" in there!

Happy birthday to my niece Theresa

Happy birthday to my cousin Marin

Happy birthday to my uncle Chris

Boxing Day

Christmas Day

Christmas Eve

Happy birthday to my cousin Elizabeth

Happy birthday to my cousin Abigail

A Christmas Eve Story

There are a few things that are more-or-less given at the holiday season. One is that you will get socks and underwear from your grandparents (if you are lucky enough to still have them around to give you gifts), another is that someone is bound to wax nostalgic for the movie A Christmas Story, and one is that every theater guild in the world, and television station will insist on totting out the Dickens in one or more of its incarnations. To that short, but inevitable, list I wish to add the perennial return of The Bergquist Christmas Eve Story. Perhaps one day this will be as loved/reviled (take your pick) as any other holiday classic.

Happy birthday to my cousin Rebecca

Winter Solstice