It’s the day after the big day. How are you holding up? How was your Christmas?
Ours was very nice. Life is good at the WhiteEyebrows household. We enjoyed a fun, low key Christmas together. We opened some gifts, ate breakfast, enjoyed some time with FavUnc and family, and TXT messaged pretty much everyone in the world.
The “Christmas Miracle” this year, though, actually happened on Christmas Eve when a huge storm rolled through the area, dumping what felt like a lot of snow. So much snow, in fact, that it actually stuck to the ground! We had a very white, stormy Christmas Eve and we had a white Christmas morning, even if it only lasted a until about 10:30.
Ho Ho Ho!
iPhone doesn’t take great low-light photos, but you can barely make out the blanket of white on the grass!
Here’s what was left on the bushes on Christmas morning!
It’s not all melted yet, but it’s going fast!!!
This requires no explanation. (Merry Christmas, Tio)
My wife and I sing as part of a community choir called Evening Song.
This year we put out a new Christmas album titled “Carol Me Sweetly”.
(Coincidentally, we recorded it in the same recording studio that Vanilla Ice used with his 1990′s hit, “Ice Ice Baby”.)
Here is a sample of a song that both my wife and I sang in:
CDs are available through the EveningSong.com website.
Those who really know me might know that I’m a tight wad. On the exterior, yes, I seem like a pretty cool cat when it comes to money, but deep down nothing makes me more gleefully giggle with joy than money miser’d away in the bank. In Brazil, I’m known as a “mao de vaca.” Literally translated, that’s “hand of a cow”. Just let that imagery work for you…
Continue reading “Mao de Vaca”
We drove 981 miles from Dallas to Denver over the Thanksgiving holiday. I drove all of it, which means I am now intimately too familiar with every mile of road between here and the mile-high city. Please allow me to share some of my findings:
Continue reading “When in Rome…”
Thanksgiving is unequivocally my favorite holiday.
Continue reading “Thanksgiving”
Last night, we enjoyed sitting on the couch, watching game 3 of the world series, and handing out candy to the local children.
Did we decorate our house? No.
Did we dress up? No.
Did we have to give away some of the good candy? Yes. (But I saved most of the Kit Kats)
Did we have any teenagers come and take candy by the handfuls and put it in their pillowcase? No.
We turned off the light at 9:15, watched the game through the top of the 6th inning, and went to bed. (Without setting our clocks back, nor informing the sun to not come and wake us up as if it were Standard Time, rather than daylight savings time. But I won’t complain about that, since the extra hour has allowed to me to catch up on blogs and write this blog.)
I hate baseball.
I know hate is a strong word, but I really don’t like it a lot. It’s SOOO long and boring. Moreover, it is NASTY! Does everyone in Baseball have some kind of mouth problem where they have to spit every five seconds? Especially when the camera is on them? I realize this is from a long history of chewing tobacco, but even those who don’t chew anymore still find necessary to spit every few seconds.
Spitting in high def is extra nasty, too. And so are the nose hairs hanging out of the team manager’s nose that you can also see in high def. I’m now starting a campaign to revert MLB to standard def coverage. If you would like to join me on this, please enter your credentials in the comments area.
When A2 announced that she had to go on a trip to the Northeast in the fall, my mind immediately shot back to the time when I learned the phrase “leaf peeping”. It was from an episode of The West Wing where President Bartlet is upset because he has to forego a radio address packed with policy and issues for a more tempered one about “leaf peeping” in the Northeast.
Neither of us have much northeasterly experience, so it proved to be an exciting new experience for both of us. Here is a recount of our exploits and our impressions of our dear Yankee friends:
Continue reading “Leaf Peeping in the Berkshires”
Tags: autumn, berkshires, changing leaves, connecticut, fall, leaf peeping, massachussetts, vacation
Coming home from our Memorial Day weekend, we made sure we booked extra time to get through the airport. After all, we were travelling through a relatively small but oftentimes busy airport, and would be passing through at what I assumed was the height of the “get home” airport pandemonium.
We got to the airport, boarding passes in hand (always print at home!), and paraded into a completely empty airport!
What?
Continue reading “Lame Travel Weekend”
