Good thing that's over

New beginnings

Saying good bye to 2011

Being true to our family’s traditions, what would Christmas vacation be without one or all of us getting some bizarre illness that renders us immobilized along with making our family and friends shun us until we’re not coughing, drooling, nose running or with pyrexia.

Sparing Judith and Echo this time around it started with Silas spending all day Tuesday lying on the couch basically in a state of suspended animation. With his high fever it was like having a wood burning stove in our living room.

It went through the ranks and hit me hard on Thursday which somewhat suspended my garage cleaning efforts and forced me to switch to filing.

Could be worse ... it could be your garage.

I knew I'd find that kid in there

This was a task I was able to do while watching TV and lying on my back with a splitting headache and a sore throat.

Yesterday, New Year’s Eve we were all feeling much better so we thought we would spend some time in the back yard so our TV would get a rest. 

All was great the kids had a Nerf war, we played Bingo, tossed around the football, and played a lighthearted game of soft ball and then the sun started to descend.

It was like we never felt better.  All the symptoms all came tumbling back so it was back to the couch and the TV.

We had a quiet evening watching an Abbott and Costello marathon waiting for midnight.  Girlie and Hank bowed out early and the rest of us had homemade pumpkin pie with Cool Whip and watched the ball drop.

Today we’re getting ready for a Marx Brothers marathon and hopefully this illness will be a thing of the past by Tuesday so we can get back to our normal routine of life.

End of the year fireworks

Waiting for the wave of this year to come in

Note to self

Woody Guthrie's 1942 New Years Rulin's

1. Work more and better
2. Work by a schedule
3. Wash teeth if any
4. Shave
5. Take bath
6. Eat good – fruit – vegetables – milk
7. Drink very scant if any
8. Write a song a day
9. Wear clean clothes – look good
10. Shine shoes
11. Change socks
12. Change bed clothes often
13. Read lots good books
14. Listen to radio a lot
15. Learn people better
16. Keep rancho clean
17. Don’t get lonesome
18. Stay glad
19. Keep hoping machine running
20. Dream good
21. Bank all extra money
22. Save dough
23. Have company but don’t waste time
24. Send mary and kids money
25. Play and sing good
26. Dance better
27. Help win war – beat fascism
28. Love mama
29. Love papa
30. Love pete
31. Love everybody
32. Make up your mind
33. Wake up and fight

Quite a comical list even though some are outdated, I believe we won the war against Fascism, but Judith and I have decided to seriously work on number three being that we have many.

Happy New Year to all!

For next year ...

Happy New Year!