Hello each of you & very good morning! Elise & I have of course been quite busy preparing for the Christmas holidays. One of the first things that we do every year is to display our big number of nutcrackers around the first floor of house, with most of them displayed in our dining room.…

Hello all of you, & good morning! Thanksgiving last week was fantastic for our family, and like prior years we had 18 friends of ours come over to our house for dinner. Elise made two turkeys, and several of guests brought some sides including desserts. As part of tradition, we have the children of the…

Hello every one of you & good morning! Last weekend, Elise & I went to Murrays Tavern to see a great friend of ours who is a very talented drummer. We have seen him a few times before.  He plays for a great band that has four other players who play guitar. Our fantastic friends…

Good morning all of you! It is awesome that Elise & me have put a hummingbird feeder on a railing of our deck. Here are two photos that we took this morning.

The following is “Never Give Up”, which is a rough draft of a song that I will be singing someday after I able to purchase a new “Solid Hawaiian Koa Ukulele” that is built by Sound Smith. “Hey Wife, I have always loved that your life is part of my life! We have known &…