Xmas Bone Head

I learned you can now print 3′ posters for $50, so I updated the drone photo-ed backyard trail map (white lines are the trails) and art-ed our wall:

Somewhere in that forest, a bunch of deer hide out:

We spent xmas with Mom in Montana.

Zach, Nick/Chloe, Max/Clark, and Aya/Eric joined us for all kinds of fun. Puzzles were solved:

Games were played.

Books were read:

Bughouse chess (2 teams of 2) was a blast!

Big boys were manly:

Little boys were cute:

Max was facinated by the deer skull bones we had at the cave:

The rest of us were fascinated by fire and warm jackets:

We pulled 6 garbage bags of out-dated supplies from the study and medicine closet:

We timed our trip back to hit a nice snowstorm in Denver. This guy is trying to convince us to wait out in the sub-zero wind chill for our gate checked bags:

We were happy to get back to balmy Alabama … dogs were happy too

Bruce

Red Beard

We snuck in one more trip down to the gulf before it got too cold:

We watched workers embedded a bunch of poles in the sand for a new house. They excavated the holes using nothing but a 15′ pressurized water wand:

Back home we had some guests come visit. Elie is a world traveling rabbi:

We visited a controversial mural (on the left) that depicts whites ruling over slaves. Rather than destroy it, the city recently decided to add a modern mural to show we are better now (on the right):

Our second guest was Kisa from Philadelphia:

She and Helen had fun creating pink eared clay creatures:

Our dog creatures developed red beards from eating colored dog food:

I didn’t notice it much, thanks to our family color blind gene, but Helen didn’t like it so we did some aggressive cutting:

Helen played with a black but not-blackface face mask:

She also discovered a lamp-less way to do night time book reading:

Closing with another riveting pine cone convulsion:

Bruce