Monday, December 29, 2008

Ice Fishing - Mille Lacs

A Good day - A nice ice house.

We Me, S., D. and a friend from church went up this morning, rented an underwater camera, picked up some bait and hunkered down. It was fun, we cooked lunch on the camp grill, setup the rattle wheels and tried jigging. But we only caught one little perch. These are my camera technicians. Jigging, no - Baiting, maybe - Watching a TV - YES!

Friday, December 26, 2008

Christmas

The Christmas Eve service was good, I had to laugh though, this church seems to have a lot of little traditions. The Spontaneous Mens Choir - We sing "We Three Kings" - The candle lighters families talk about their Christmas traditions, and the kid gets Hot Tameles. They had 4,7, and 11 O'clock services packed. And like Pastor George used to, there was a sense that the pastor had one shot to reach some people he might only see twice a year.

It was great to see Lorance on the Webcam from Bunga's Laptop. He looked so good. They move to thier new address (in Winsted) next week. We missed not having family around - but it was good, we went to our friends house for dinner, and to spend the evening. The Ham was great!

Saturday - I invited a group of coworkers from Work out for the evening.

Booked an Ice House on the south end of Mille Lacs - furnace, generator, outhouse - dinette, and holes. Monday - bringing up S., D. and a friend from Church - C. will come up later with N. Reports to follow.

Monday, December 22, 2008

It's been too long...


D. went on the Troops Ski campout - and had a good time. He also was in the Church play, and enjoyed that as well.

S. has done some babysitting (and might not hate it). And eats like a horse.

N. is doing well - Our pack went to the Becker community pool, and rode down the slide a million times. CT doesn't have the community investment that nearly every town out hear does.

Thanksgiving was with the Manzi's - and after we open presents we will head over to the Millers for dinner.

We marched in the Holidazzle parade - it was pretty cool. The nicest parade we've ever been in - and we were all electrified and all lit up.

And the family was part of the live Nativity in front of the church. It was cold.

My Sunday school class has been watching the Rob Bells "The Gods aren't angry" which I thought was very good - a bit historical but a really well done conclusion.