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Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Christmas Eve 2008
Al and I had a wonderful Christmas Eve in Nashville visiting with Mary Evelyn, Mark and family, Elizabeth and family, and Mother. They say "a picture says a 1000 words" so I will let pictures show what a great time was had by all. Check out the Smilebox and enjoy the fun. Thanks to Mary Evelyn and all her helpers for a lovely brunch! We so enjoyed seeing everyone and being with family for Christmas.
Theresa
PS. Click on each picture in Smilebox to see up close.
Theresa
PS. Click on each picture in Smilebox to see up close.
Home for the Holidays
Monday 12/29/2008
Christmas is over and the the last week was a whirlwind. We drove to Nashville on Tuesday, December 23, to visit Mary Evelyn, our sister-in-law, and family. Visiting from Washington,DC were Elizabeth, our niece, with her husband, Matt, and one year old Alex, whom we saw for the first time. Mark (our nephew) and Amy with Evan and Kate came over on Christmas Eve for brunch and opening gifts. Mother had been driven to Nashville by Mary Evelyn and Elizabeth on Tuesday and spent the night with Mark and family. We then drove with Mother to Bruceton to visit with her for a few days.
Coming back it looks like we drove over 1000 miles. The drive was uneventful but long. Lots of traffic around the metro areas, but not too bad once you left the cities. It's a interesting that thru Tennessee and Kentucky where the speed limit is 70 MPH there is always someone driving faster than you. You drive 70...someone is going by at 85....you drive 80...a car passes you at 90. Must be something in our psyche.
The rain gauge shows 2 inches of rain during the 6 days we were gone...maybe it means we will have a beautiful spring.... and today turns out to be a sunny one, which we could surely use. Time to go outside and play lumberjack with the saw and clean up the yard which has quite a few limbs and twigs scattered around.
Al
Christmas is over and the the last week was a whirlwind. We drove to Nashville on Tuesday, December 23, to visit Mary Evelyn, our sister-in-law, and family. Visiting from Washington,DC were Elizabeth, our niece, with her husband, Matt, and one year old Alex, whom we saw for the first time. Mark (our nephew) and Amy with Evan and Kate came over on Christmas Eve for brunch and opening gifts. Mother had been driven to Nashville by Mary Evelyn and Elizabeth on Tuesday and spent the night with Mark and family. We then drove with Mother to Bruceton to visit with her for a few days.
Coming back it looks like we drove over 1000 miles. The drive was uneventful but long. Lots of traffic around the metro areas, but not too bad once you left the cities. It's a interesting that thru Tennessee and Kentucky where the speed limit is 70 MPH there is always someone driving faster than you. You drive 70...someone is going by at 85....you drive 80...a car passes you at 90. Must be something in our psyche.
The rain gauge shows 2 inches of rain during the 6 days we were gone...maybe it means we will have a beautiful spring.... and today turns out to be a sunny one, which we could surely use. Time to go outside and play lumberjack with the saw and clean up the yard which has quite a few limbs and twigs scattered around.
Al
Monday, December 22, 2008
Happy Anniversary Tom and Yvonne
Well Saturday was my friend Tom's 50th anniversary. Renewed his vows and held a party at his country club Sunday. Would love to have gone but a huge storm crossed Lake Erie and the ride up to Canada would have been quite dangerous. We are going to drive down to Tennessee to be with Theresa's family for Christmas and we will be leaving on Tuesday. On Saturday, I picked up $165 at the track . Not much to show for it but a lot of fun. Some very close calls to a nice win but my selection got "nosed out". Friday night one of the $2.00 trifectas paid $80,000...!!! Not to me!!! Not to anyone, I hear, but someone did win half of it. The wind has been howling the last couple of days and at 22 degrees I bet the wind chill is below zero. The football game in Cleveland on Sunday I heard was played at -6 degree wind chill. We lost anyway (as expected). We think the coach will be fired...what a nice guy...but that might be part of the problem. With Hanukkah here we had a standing rib (prepared by me), potato latkes (prepared by Theresa) with sour cream and a tossed salad. No brussel sprouts or broccoli (thank you Lord). A nice glass of wine topped it all off. Theresa baked many cookies to take to Tennessee but I am sure she will let me be her "tester" !! Don't cookies have to have a tester??
Al
Al
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Our Bears Have Winter Fun
The Pollack Bears enjoy the winter so much, especially when it snows. Last winter we had a blizzard in Ohio on March 8 and the bears grabbed their sleds and had a grand time! Take a look at the Smilebox below and see just how much fun they had!
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
The Jewish Bears
Hanukkah will be here sooner than Christmas and our Jewish bears will be celebrating by lighting the candles, opening gifts, and playing with their dreidels for eight days and nights. They made a movie of last year's celebration and wish to share it with you. See it in the Smilebox below.
Rabbi Hymie
Rabbi Hymie
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Hannah Montana Makes Appearance On Our Blog
Hannah Montana was out Trick or Treating last Halloween with an unidentified friend and her picture was made by one of the paparazzi who follow her. We were lucky to get one of the photos to publish here. But on further review, we believe this to be no other than Kate Mitchell....a star in her own right. You should see her dance and hear her sing. But she makes a very cute Hannah Montana !
Reported by Theresa
Photograph by Mark
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