Some Christmas Photos

Christmas Eve with a fire in the fireplace and my sister playing with her dog.

Christmas Eve tree.

Santa Crock!

Christmas Day with my husband, me, dogs and Santa Crock.*

Yesterday in the backyard. Now I understand the phrase, "blanket of snow."

*It was just starting to snow lightly when my sister took this photo.  By the next morning there was 6 inches of snow on the ground.   So, technicality we had a white Christmas.

Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

Christmas would not be Christmas without Darlene Love singing Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) on The David Letterman show. She has been on the show every December since 1986. Below is her original 1963 recording (God, she sounds so young), a compilation of all her Letterman appearances up to 2013 and her final appearance on the show from this year. She just keeps getting better and better.











(Christmas)
The snow's coming down
(Christmas)
I'm watching it fall
(Christmas)
Lots of people around
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home

(Christmas)
The church bells in town
(Christmas)
All ringing in song
(Christmas)
Full of happy sounds
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home

They're singing "Deck The Halls"
But it's not like Christmas at all
'Cause I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year

(Christmas)
Pretty lights on the tree
(Christmas)
I'm watching them shine
(Christmas)
You should be here with me
(Christmas)
Baby, please come home

(Instrumental interlude)

They're singing "Deck The Halls"
But it's not like Christmas at all
'Cause I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year

(Christmas)
If there was a way
(Christmas)
I'd hold back this tear
(Christmas)
But it's Christmas day
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Please
(Please)
Please
((Please)
Baby, please come home

I Dislike Winds So

But they do make the view of Longs Peak stunning.

Do You See What I See?

It's Christmas Time In The City

Decorated house a few block away.

Cigars For Everyone!

U.S To Restore Relations With Cuba

American Is No Longer Great

“America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville

1. The "Graywashing" of CIA Torture

2. (Dick) Cheney: 'The report is full of crap.'

3. Pardon Bush and Those Who Torture

4. Reaction to the CIA report suggest that many involved would do it all over again

5. UN: 'We won't take 'no' for an answer, CIA torture must be investigated"

6. Why Obama Won't Prosecute Torturers

I Am Learning To Sew- Project 11

A messenger bag for my sister's birthday. She loves light houses.

Home Town News

"The pest management and school staff have indicated that the current pest management system generally addresses work orders in response to specific sightings and does not implement an integrated plan for the entire school. This is NOT an effective way of mitigating a pest infestation."
-Danica Lee, Food Safety Manager for Denver Environmental Health.

I can't tell you how many apartment buildings I lived in that played chase the cockroaches from apartment to apartment. If you want to get rid of pests you must spray not only the infected apartment but also the apartments on either side and above and below the one you are treating. In the long run this is cheaper; something some apartment owners and, it looks like, the Denver Public Schools do not seem to understand either.

Two Self-Satisfied Hunters

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?
- Jonathan Safran Foer

Photographed in the field by Bob Bixler.

Thanksgiving 2014

- Convection roasting produces a beautifully browned turkey.

- Costco's Bistro 28 Organic Cranberry Sauce is very tasty. Ingredients: Organic cranberries, organic sugar, and water.

- Al Roker's mom's Sweet Potato dish is yummy.

- Turkey sandwiches the day after are always better with a side of mashed potatoes, stuffing and cranberry sauce.

- "Little Thanksgiving" on Saturday night, when the majority of leftover Thanksgiving dinner was eaten up, is in some ways even better than Turkey Day.

- Stirring a Lindor orange dark chocolate truffle into your hot cocoa makes it a hot cocoa to die for. Adding a shot of Cointreau doesn't hurt either.

- Thanksgiving wouldn't be Thanksgiving without family and friends.



(Edited at 1:50 PM to add hot cocoa note.)