Someone's in My Bed

The kitty sits in the dog bed just to spite him. She doesn't really want to be in it.

Shop Til You Drop

This has been the ultimate retail shopping season for Lincoln. Thanksgiving was early, so we have an extra week, and the weather has been perfect every weekend.

NGD!

NGD! is short for New Guitar Day! JP felt bad for me having to go to work every day, so she got me a new guitar for X-Mas/birthday. She's the best!

W doesn't seem to mind it.

Hey! Let me up there!

Season of Darkness

Mid-December and it's dark when I go to work, and dark when I come home. Time for playing music, board games, and 1000 piece puzzles!

Family Photo 2018

Happy Holidays from all of us.

Fluffy but Sharp

This is S's new friend from up the street. He comes over once a week to play. He weighs about a pound and is made of nothing but fluff and sharp puppy teeth. He looks cute as a button, but he's still a puppy and he like to chew on EVERYTHING.

Stripes on Lions @ Night Owl Pub

GP's band played a double set at the Night Owl Friday night. They totally rocked it!! It was obvious that all three guys were really having fun.

X-Mas Lights

We were blessed with a couple of relatively warm days for X-Mas light installation. JP went to town and did it all. Our little skinny Alberta Spruce is now as tall as the house. I wasn't there to help, so I imagine she acted out a scene from Christmas Vacation while trying to get lights to the top of the tree.

Thanksgiving 2018

S is a pretty good traveler - he likes to look out enjoy the scenery.

We did a fast in and out trip to see Nana for Thanksgiving in Lanark. As usual, we all ate too much.

The day after, we went back to Woodstock to our old friends. This was the 10th (?) annual lunch @ Biaggi's in Deer Park.

Another Fluffball

This is the other new fluffball in the neighborhood. She's a cokapoo just like M was, and she's a terror.

Best $30

We have been fighting the volume on our Netflix and Amazon videos to the point that we literally wore out the volume buttons on the remote. I picked up an audio compressor at the local used music store for $30 and it's AMAZING!! when the TV signal gets loud, it automatically turns down the volume, and when it's real quiet, it lets it all through. We were able to watch an entire scary movie (they're usually the worst) without touching the volume control.

Chilly Football

We scored another set of tickets to see the Huskers. This time we beat Illinois - it's good to see our season is turning around. Saturday morning it was 12° when we arrived downtown. By kickoff, it was up to 24°. Brrrr.

In addition to the chill, we also had a breeze. The banner-flying plane had a hard time making any headway flying south.

Latke Feed

We ventured onto campus to take in some yummy vittles at CP's SAM Latke Feed. It's their annual philanthropic fundraising activity. I'm now hooked on latkes! They're like ginormous tater tots that have been smashed flat.

Let it Snow

My least favorite tradition of fall is installing the snow tires. GP has been working out, and it showed as he manhandled the tires.

We cut it pretty close this year - it snowed a couple days after we did the tire swap.

Fluffball

There's a new fluffball in the neighborhood. 

New Sammy

CP had his induction to the Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity last weekend. It's a great group of guys that are focused on academics and success. We're excited for him.

Senioritis

GP got his senior photos done by our friend downtown in the Railyard.

Stripes on Lions @ Southpointe

GP's band played last Sunday afternoon at the mall. It was a picture perfect day. Between the game on Saturday and being out Sunday, my lips got sunburned.

Here they are doing their own version of Country Roads

This is Rio (Duran Duran 1982). It's really challenging on the bass - I can't even begin to play it, but GP has been after it for a while. I think it's his favorite song to play.

This is a song from GP's favorite band, Gorillaz. (Same band he saw in Boston)

Best Friends (Sometimes)

With S growing a few brain cells, he's become much more of a friend for V.