Baldo en Español by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for January 01, 2012

I’m first! Good morning all and happy 2012!

My husband cooked a

GRITS dinner of lamb chops and lobster tails, yum! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!, mi Locos!

HI, MARG!!!What aGRITS

hockey game! We won 2-0 in a shut out! Happ New Year!

The candy bar Gracie, not the planet.

Happy New Year Locos!

That’s quite a stretch Gracie, from what Papi actually said!

Happy New Year Locos!

johnny GREAT to see you here that early! Happy 2012 to you too!

………And Shika comes in last to say Happy New Year!

Well, at least it is still New Year’s Day!

Congrats JFri. If it was a shut-out, how did anyone see the game? :-D

Dry, hanging from a branch is quite a stretch for Gracie. I’ll vote for her! Heck, she can OWN Mars if she wants to!

Hola Dry and Shika!. Well, it has a been a dry year so far in the PNW.

No I didn’t stay up all night, but it was pretty late. Now I am enjoying a nice day of football to kick off 2012. bbl

Isn’t that always the way, got all my outdoor lights down and put away, and lo and behold, but what to my wandering eyes should appear? No, not a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, but a lone little roof hook! Which means I either put it away somewhere and forget where I put it until next year, or dig out all the lights to put the sole survivor away in it’s rightful spot. Decisions, decisions! Geez! :-D

Whose winning what, johnny? I haven’t seen a game yet. I thought I heard though, that Aaron isn’t playing today?

I enjoyed going to the island to church. As mentioned, it was a beautiful sunny warm day to start with, then it started to rain, but we got a lift to the ferry and so I didn’t mind.

A local (Island) fellow was selling calendars, and thinking it was the $5.00 church calendar I get every year (we are liturgical, so it comes in handy), I said I’d buy one. It turns out that it is a calendar with photos of the Island, with a painting of that church on the front. I paid $20.00 for it. I didn’t have the heart to tell a formerly homeless man that I was broke myself. It is a lovely calendar. He is a regular member of the congregation, so they’ve all bought them.

It was a gorgeous day. It looks like you homeless man knows how to play a congregation*Shika.* :-)

johnnyd*, I was just telling LilG that the one thing that I miss not having cable is sports.

Dry, I took my outdoor lights down today as well. Then we went to visit a friend who had a hip replacement less than two weeks ago. She has a beautiful view of the Sound and I realized that all of our closest friends have salt or lake water views.

Hoppin’ John for dinner tonight.

That is nice Shika. I am sorry that I made light of the homeless man. It is wonderful that he has a home and is pursuing a talent and interest. This is a very special way to deal with homelessness. We all need to take an interest in those around us.

By the way Shika, I like your avatar.

Finally getting to see a game, johnny and it’s a blow out! Looks like the Giants are headed to a playoff!

It was SO warm & sunny today I was in my shirt sleeves while taking down the lights.

I was too JFri, but mine was a hair shirt. _ snerk_

Oh LORD! Do I want to envision outside Christmas lights being taken down by a man, never mind that he’s cute and adorable, in his birthday suit? Something is really wrong with this picture! :-D Snerk, snicker, snort!

(Good thing there were no unexpected electrical surges at that time!)

There were surges Dry! :-)

Late again getting to bed.

Good Night Gracie!!

Sorry I missed you all again too. I’m getting caught up on my snail mail. It takes longer for some reason….

The wind is kicking up BIG TIME! So glad I took those lights down today! I have decided to leave my tree up until next weekend. I love the ambiance of the tree lights. And they light the room up enough that you don’t need any other lighting. I wish I could find something similar for all year long. Any ideas anybody? Not a bright light, just a subtle lighting, but of course you would still need to turn the lamp on to read something if need be. But otherwise, this low but bright enough lighting is great.

((((((locos))))))

Shika,

TUCK TUCK TUCK TUCKXOXOXOXO

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I have always hated the end of holidays and particularly the beginning of January as there is nothing to look forward to until April.

What’s in April besides tax day?

Pessimist!

Spring showers bring May flowers! You wait until APRIL to file your taxes JFri?

Okay, I’ll try this again. Thanks for the tucks JFri. I shouldn’t have slept this afternoon though.

FROHES NEUES JAHR ALLE, MAI DAS NEUE JAHR HOLEN SIE FREUDE.

Google it. I copied it and liked it.