MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERYONE!!!! May the miracle that occurred in Bethlehem so long ago make many miracles possible for you in years to come! Peace!

Merry Christmas Everyone. Thanks Lee it is nice to have a taste of some snow. We are here in St. Lucia this year. So the holiday is a tropical one. We have a beautiful tree...yes we do get pine trees here in St. Lucia. My son describes them to be more like a pine fern than a pine tree. *laughter* It's full, smells like pine and looks beautiful.

My cookies are halfway baked...the island is out of eggs completely! Can you imagine that! Someone told me the hens stopped laying. *laughter* I don't know why we're out, but I haven't seen an egg for 5 days now. So no eggs, no perogies, no more Christmas cookies *frown*

I just want to wish everyone a blessed Christmas and a joyous New Year. I pray for each of you that God will make Himself very real to all of you this coming year.

Love and God bless.

Merry Christmas to all -- Lee's pictures definitely set the mood. We will be in Pittsburgh (at home) for the holidays -- doing something a little different this year -- both sides of our families have other plans -- so we are going to host our neighbors and some of their family from Ireland for Christmas dinner -- it should be a fun day (these are the same people who had invited us to Dublin in June for a surprise birthday party

This is a panorama of Hahn's Peak, not too far from Steamboat Springs, one of my favorite places in Colorado. I like Hahn's peak not because it's tall, but because it's so symmetrical. There something surreal about this mountain peak. There was a thriving mining town at its base more than 100 years ago and was the county seat for Routt county for many years. I still remember the first time I saw it more than 20 years ago on a motorcycle trip. We rounded a turn and there it was, just standing there, seemingly in the middle of nowhere.

Here's a panoramic view of Lake John in Colorado. Terri and I stopped by here to do a little ice fishing a few weeks ago after spending a few days up in Steamboat Springs. The ice was about 4 inches thick. I expect it will be about 2 feet thick by February.

Only 9 shopping days left till Christmas!