22 Dec., 2009 -- Almost, almost...

You thought I'd say... Almost Christmas... didn't ya?
Well, my Jewel Orchid, homely little thing, is almost blooming!
And Fonda & Randy & LAD are almost here, driving down from Iowa.
And I'm almost finished doing chores, so I can almost get to the post office now.
Almost Happy Birthdays to G'pa Allen and 'NotherOneGrandma Val.

20 Dec., 2009 -- Good morning!!! slurp

Razzle's face is the first thing I see in the morning at Grack's house.
Razzle always makes sure I'm awake, somehow.

Dottie's feet? Which feet???

SammieJ borrowed my camera this morning
and caught some interesting pics of the pets!

Started out the day finding Cam's geocache.
(Uphill both ways, barefoot, through 6 feet of snow.)

I picked up Cam's travel bug Slug Bug, and put it into a cache
that I found on my way home, via Fort Leonard Wood. Now,
this one WAS uphill both ways... well, one way, anyway.

I got lost a few times. The gps kept trying to get me to drive down muddy side roads.
"Turns" out, I was on the wrong side of the river, I wasn't really lost, but I was, but not.
And when it says "turn left on Alley", it really means "I don't know the name of this street,
so turn left anyway, and I'll call it Alley if I want to". I kept looking for Alley Street.


On the way home, through Ft. Wood, haven't been this way
since G'pa Allen was in basic training in 1966. It was hot hot hot
that summer.


Huh?

19 Dec., 2009 -- Shopping, geocaching,

Started out going to Columbia, to shop and geocache.



We shopped in some really weird shops in Columbia! (We didn't buy any of this stuff.)

Nerdy dad checks some coordinates.

Nerdyguy1 finds a geocache, and nerdy sis gets the prize!

Back in Jeff City again.

18 Dec., 2009 -- Solo, and two silly snowmen

Cameron's piano solo at school today in Jeff City. Outstanding!


After the concert this afternoon, Cam and his buddy Jack
built a snowman. It ain't easy, livin' on a hill!



Later, SammieJ put up a companion for CamJack.
Now we have CamJack&Sam.

17 Dec., 2009 -- Happy birthday, Sandy! Duck! hunt.

I had to dig back to November, 1981
for this one! It was a mudder duck hunt.

15 Dec., 2009 -- Pretty day to exercise

Ron and Joe exercised the Cessna 180.

The stacks are changing...

Not getting smaller, just changing.
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Project 1

Copying a boxfull of vhs tapes. Then another pile of video 8mm tapes. Have to borrow 8mm video cam for that part of the project. Also trying to make a dvd movie from digital video tapes, but the computers don't want to cooperate.
Frustration abounds in multitudinous quantities and I'm about to throw a stomping fit.
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I haven't abandoned you

Have three projects going, and will add another one tomorrow!
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