Month: December 2019

Good Morning All!  Happy first day of Winter…only 4 our shopping days ’til Christmas! Happy Birthday to Olympia High High School classmate & friend Dan, concert & special events promoter and football coach extraordinaire, who turns 65 today.  Welcome to Medicare Dan!  Have fun on your special day of celebration!  And Happy Birthday to friend…Read more

Good Morning All and here’s to the last official day of Autumn!  Only five shopping days left ’til Christmas! Here’s to friends Max (auto designer extraordinaire in San Francisco), who celebrates his 25th birthday today; and to Lisa (Marketing & Business Development Manager & Medical Staff Coordinator extraordinaire in Kellogg ID), who celebrates her 49th…Read more

Good Morning All!  Only 11 shopping days ’til Christmas! A great big HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister-in-law, Val, who celebrates her 62nd birthday today!  Here’s to you, Val, and have fun on your special day of celebration! Our family had lots of fun last night at the Christmas Lights Cruise on Lake Coeur d’ Alene…Read more

Good Morning All!  Only 12 shopping days left ’til Christmas!  Happy Friday The 13th for all you superstitious ones out there! Tonight our whole family is going on the Christmas lights boat tour on Lake Coeur d’ Alene.  How fun!  If you haven’t been on this adventure yet, be sure you do!  It’s great for…Read more

Good Morning & Happy Wednesday Everyone!  Only 14 shopping days left until Christmas!!!  Christmas seems to be coming fast this year!  And we have a “White Christmas” in Spokane this morning.  3-4 inches fell overnight…the first big snowfall of the season (and it’s not even officially Winter yet!).  How about that!  Time to get out…Read more

Good Morning All! I read in the newspaper yesterday that actor Kirk Douglas of “Spartacus” & “War Wagon” movie fame, among many other great films, celebrated his 103rd birthday.  Wow, that’s remarkable, don’t you think?  There must be some pretty good genes in his family tree!  He’ll always be one of “Hollywood Greats” in my…Read more

Good Morning All! Well, yesterday marked the 78th anniversary of the “day that will live in infamy”…when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, our generation’s “September 11th.”  We should always remember these significant dates in our nation’s history and honor those who were lost or injured on those days.  Our world was forever changed by both…Read more

Good Morning All & Happy Monday!  Only 23 shopping days until Christmas! Does your family have any wacky traditions/ongoing jokes?  Well, ever since our son-in-law David joined our family there’s been an ongoing joke of passing off a bottle of Huckleberry Wine from his house to our house using various ingenious hiding locations.  Come to…Read more

Good Morning All! I hope everyone had a terrific Thanksgiving holiday!  One of the highlights of our Thanksgiving dinner here in Spokane was a delicious salad prepared by my daughter & son-in-law, Amy & Joel, which included mixed greens, bits of cooked squash, roasted brussel sprouts and pommagranetes (sp?) which gave it a wonderful burst…Read more