Happy New Year

Just want to wish a HAPPY NEW YEAR to anyone who wanders onto these pages. While I'm here I will post a few more pictures of the Christmas Light Display in Madison. Hard to believe that the new year is here.

I have about 6 new beer brands to taste but feeling so miserable haven't even opened any yet. They will be ready for me to taste in 2012. Something to look forward to.

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Lost Another Post

Yes once again I lost a nice post, including 3 pictures. Where do they go? Floating out in space. Do the astronauts read them, or maybe the angels. None the less the post and the pictures are gone from yesterdays blog. I will post one of the pictures from our family Christmas Party in this writing. I will also post one of the pictures I took of a great display of
Christmas lights in Madison. There are many cute displays like that. You drive thru this park with your headlights on dim and many autos tour these displays. They will be up for 1 more week I believe.

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Merry Christmas

We went to breakfast with this fella today as we do many Saturdays thruout the year. He is always in his civilian clothes instead of his dress reds. He left his reindeer out on a farm so that they could get rested up for this evenings adventure. No, that is not me sitting on his knee. He said when that fella saw him he rushed over to him and just set his butt down. As you can tell from the photo Santa got a kick out of this fellas enthusiam for this time of the year.
Just want again to wish anyone who trips into this blog a very Merry Christmas and if I don't get a chance to blog before A Very Happy New Year.

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Will have some beer taste tests results in a upcoming article.

More Entertainment

Yes last evening we were treated to more great entertainment. Our two youngest grands had their Christmas Concert. We met our daughter and her hubby and the kids for a quick meal at a local eatery before heading to their preschool. Another great crowd of parents and grandparents filled the school rooms and hallways. We were treated to our youngest grands program first and it was a powerfull songfest of Christmas songs. Tremendous applause followed each song. The children performed their movements very gracefully and their voices rang through the room. Good program kids.

While waiting for our older grand to perform and other groups performed we adjourned to the lunchroom where the girls decorated cookies with frosting and sprinkles. Enjoyed some of the cookies that the girls decorated then it was time for the other grands class to perform. Again a great rendition of our favorite Christmas songs. Their voicesnot only filled the room but I'm sure anyone lingering in the hallway were entertained too. Again the gracefullness of their movements were well coordinated. Looking forward to the next time they perform.

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I guess the pictures are not posting again. Sorry about that.

Try Once More

Giving it a go once more. Last Thursday we attended a concert at the Senior Center. It was a Russian Trio, The Ekaterinburg Classical Trio, or "Kat Trio". It consisted of a clarinet, violin and piano. It was a very good hour of entertainment. Their variety of music was great and I truly enjoyed the concert. My only disappoint was the crowd or really the lack of a crowd. They are touring around Wisconsin as one of the members is attending the University of Wisconsin. The other two members received their Doctoral degrees from Arizona State University.

Sunday we attended a Christmas program presented by two of our grandchildrens school. Again a 1½ hours of fine entertainment. The various grades presented their programs and the large full house plus standing room only crowd really appreciated the program. Thursday we travel again to view our youngest granddaughters day care for their program. Looking forward to this performance and I'm sure I wll write about it soon.

Tomorrow I head for the Doctors office to see about my swollen legs and a rash on my arms and legs. I know I will hear cut back on the salt. I have cut back on the salt.

Hope I can get this to publish. 3 photos, the Hawk from 2 messages ago, the Kat Trio and a picture from the grands performance.

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Lost Post

I just had another post lost. I had the hawk picture from the Dec 3 blog item and a picture of a Christmas program of two of our grandchildren participated in Sunday afternoon. I went to preview it article and when I pressed a button it went missing. I don't have any idea where it went wrong but I will try to piost again another day.

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Two Backyard Visitors

We have lots of animals visiting our backyard daily. We have a bunch of squirrels, rabbits and sometimes chipmonks and moles. Even see deer every now and then, also in our many years here we have seen foxes raccoons and badgers. These animals like to visit our bird feeders especially under the feeders where feed for them is easy pickings. Our neighbors also enjoy feeding these creatures. We have a wooded area afew blocks from our house. At one time we lived near the outskirts of the city but in the 37 years we have resided at this address the city has extended south so we are now surrounded by houses. The birds and the animals just stayed with us.

The hawk pictured (if the pictures upload) visited daily for a few years resting in our elm tree, but the elm just got to unwieldy and a few branches landed against our garage this past fall so last December we had it cut down and we hadn't seen the hawk until yesterday. He sat on the luminary for some time then went into our front yard to chase the birds who reside in our mugho pine bushes. It was fun following his adventures.

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Guess the pictures didn't upload-will try another day.