OK, so I’ve been playin around with our web cam.  There’s no picture of Christa because she was out of the house while we were stuck at home. And speaking of winter freeze.  Here’s a picture of one cool character I always appreciated… The Snow Miser Hope you all are staying warm these last few…

We've been a bit too busy for such trivial things as blogging, but here's a brief update and a photo album. Anna finished her two-week trial at the local kindergarten.  Her teachers (of course) loved her and had many positive things to say about her.  They described her as being a "role model" in the…

OK, I am still a bit enamored by the "little" things of convenience in my mother land.   Case in point: A week ago I bought a little car-adapter for our I-Pod so that we can play our music while traveling around.  But the AM/FM digital adapter thing didn't work very well.  The static was terrible…