here's some christmas photos

well it sure would be nice if jim posted some of hose darn pictures he's always taking. Well here's some for "y'all".

Here's the gang "Samplin the Spirits" or "Doin Inventory" as the folks say....but this year we got out the cognac that Mark L bought me like thiry years ago. I am not sure why we saved it but we did. So after many a story over the years as to its origin and travels I regailed everyone with why Mark gave it to me... I don't know. Suffice to say it was out of friendship and Mark's emotional downloading or typing all his letters of intro when he was at SUNY B for accounting. We sampled it....and it was lovely...even velvety, I guess. The bits of cork floating in there gave it a delightful full bodied like thing.




Thanks Mark...Cheers.



















Mot and Eric head south to the tropical southern tier for a respite from that darn Syracuse lake effect....
















the evil"twin" sisters plotting over some Christmas confection

The holiday highlights would not be complete without the loudfamily band firing out 100 versions of eye of the tiger...yeahhhaaaah. Even Pop needed some jam time.

No fun here....practice up....Grace and I are coming back down for the American Idol rematch.

and we leave his post with yet another lovely picture of the evil "twin" step sisters laughing over our mortal follies.

Time Flies 2009

Cathy, Elizabeth and Thomas came over to visit this weekend. Scary how a year goes by. We went to dinner at Coleman's. [ An Irish pub here in Syracuse ] The chicken pot pie and the Guiness stew were quite yum yum. Afterwards, we rented Wall-E to watch. And there was much rejoicing. Here is 2009 and 2008.

At Least I got the lights to work

I had to get a special washer to get the track lighting to work...several weeks of phone calls the washer shows up....yea! Not sure it was worth the wait but I likey the lights.

gift from the past

Mom and Dad brought this back from Ireland in 1973? Its a nice irish linen with a pretty cool 70's graphic.

It sat in the dining room hutch for 20 years....I think I asked Mom for it about ten or 15 yers ago and then it sat in my attic until last week....

Tada...now its nicely framed...most expensive frame I have ever done....try to ignore my reflection.

Maybe this belongs in Pop's Pub for a little while? Whada ya think Pop?

Can you find the bottle of guiness??