Watched Rudolph tonight on DVD. A couple years ago was the 50 anniversary of the first broadcast of the show. I've been watching it on and off over most of that time. Dale says he saw it the first time it was on.
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Christmas Eve 2015 - From Dale's Journal
"Well, the weather huffed and puffed and tried mightily to deliver a White Christmas to Minneapolis, but that great laboring brought forth a mouse in the form of an icy thin layer of snow/slush that froze solid last night when the temperatures finally dropped below freezing to give us our first “average” day in weeks. Not very Christmas-y and since I’m all about the atmospherics around Christmas, this is kind of disappointing.
But Christmas will come just the same, so we’ll play along. We’re heading to Joe’s mom’s house for the traditional Christmas Eve meal of cheese and bread fondue with a side of tenderloin and carafe of wine. Once the beavers have finished building dams in our arteries and we awake from our stupor, Joe and I will transform into cherubs and sing tonight at Christmas Eve mass.
Tomorrow is Christmas dinner at our house with Joe’s mom, possibly a friend of hers, and the last minute addition of a Christmas orphan who just texted asking if my invitation from a month ago is still good. He promised wine and to wear bells. Well, hell yeah, he had me at “wine”. The bells are just frosting on the cake."
Christmas Eve 2015 - Mom's Tree
We got to Mom's around noon. Her friend Lynn was there to join us for lunch. We started with an appetizer of brie and apple slices on crackers.
Christmas Eve 2015 - Mom
This year is my 50th Christmas and I've celebrated all of them with this dear woman. Thanks Mom, for making them great. I love you.
Christmas Eve 2015 - Christmas Cookies
Mom served Christmas cookies for dessert. She used Grandma Jean's sugar cookie recipe which turns out some pretty awesome results. Mom thinks they're the best sugar cookies she's ever tasted and I have to agree with her. The recipe had been lost for a while but she told me that this year she found it again! She also served a nut pastry called _________. It's made by Tobie's (yes, the one between Minneapolis and Duluth) although she found it at a grocery store near her. Earlier this morning Dale and I stopped at Kowalski's for some last minute shopping for tomorrow's dinner and I picked up the cookie you see below. It's a shortbread cookie but it had a gingerbread taste to it. The bottom part was dipped in some kind of frosting. The whole thing was marvelous.
Christmas Eve 2015 - Christmas Full Moon
Dale and I noticed the Christmas (not quite yet) full moon before getting to church tonight. It was spectacular.
Christmas Eve 2015 - Christmas Wish
What I really wanted for Christmas all those years ago but never got. Oh well, the Snoopy Drive-In Movie was my other dream present and I got that one.
Christmas Morning 2015
From Dale's blog:
"So this is Christmas at our house right now. My present happens to be sitting next to the tree in a Santa hat.
We were listening this morning to this Annie Lennox album. Her versions of these songs may be the best renditions of well-known Christmas carols I’ve ever heard. She makes all the songs fresh and interesting.
Finally, I am laughing in the second picture because Joe is singing along to some silly song and has no idea (I think) that I was taking this picture of both of us."
"We’ll have our very non-traditional Christmas celebration later this afternoon with Christmas lasagna, stir fried green beans, tons of garlic bread, and an “IT Crowd” marathon (or at least half-marathon), I hope. Funniest damned British comedy I’ve ever seen … and I’ve seen quite a few.
I hope you got everything you wanted for Christmas!"
Christmas Day 2015
The rest of the day turned out to be quite lovely. Mom and Lynn came over around 3:00 p.m. While Dale entertained them I made a lasagna. Our friend Mark from choir joined us shortly before eating at 5:00 and a lovely time was had by all. Mark was a big hit with Mom and Lynn. After dinner we watched our own mini-marathon of IT Crowd episodes.
Didn't see the moon tonight as it was overcast so I'm glad we had a chance to see it last night. Visible or not, I was aware of its presence. We'll have to wait 19 years for it to occur on Christmas Day again...
Saturday, January 16, 2016
Christmas Season 2015 - Dale
Christmas Season 2015 - Joe
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