When y'all are out celebrating New Year's Eve will you have a toast to our Anniversary? It will be 16 years this time--- we were first married in 1970 but divorced in 1982----are we supposed to count those years too????

Still cold here--- 22 degrees!

Brrrr, Karen, that is cold! You'll be skating on that pool before long.

. . .
Slow tracing down the thickening sky
Its mute and ominous prophecy,
A portent seeming less than threat,
It sank from sight before it set.
. . .

I find this happens frequently in my travels.....

Bill, 4 lines already, you are speeding up!

I really don't have time for this.....

Stand back! I have work to do.

. . .
A chill no coat, however stout,
Of homespun stuff could quite shut out,
A hard, dull bitterness of cold,
That checked, mid-vein, the circling race
Of life-blood in the sharpened face,
The coming of the snow-storm told.
. . .

Look out ladies...my buddy BILL has bumped up the ante....

Is there going to be a pop quiz afterwards??

weren't you listening?.....

oh my....

first the pool freezes over now this...

. . .
The wind blew east; we heard the roar
Of Ocean on his wintry shore,
And felt the strong pulse throbbing there
Beat with low rhythm our inland air.
. . .

[The "mows" are coming next. Oh still my beating heart.]

calling 911 to be ready for Bill just in case the heart beats too fast....

Gary, I like your new avatar!! I went to your profile to see if I could see it bigger but Nooooooo!!!

Now you can KAREN

I LOVE IT! I just showed your picture to Tim and he said he looks familiar---is he in construction??? Maybe somewhere along the line you two have ran in to each other.....