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Christmas
Dec 28th
It’s over for another year. We had a wonderful Christmas with my Mom and Uncle, plus cousins and their families. We ate WAY too much. Back on the diet tomorrow! We’re not waiting for the new year.
Jason always makes dinner for Mom & my Uncle and we take it up to them each Sunday. He’s become quite a cook. For the second Christmas in a row, he cooked the turkey. This year it was a whopping 24 pounds. He did an excellent job and it was juicy and tasty. Everyone loved it. We have to give credit to our friend Topper in Wisconsin for the recipe. Thanks Jay! (Two turkeys pictured below 
Jason got adventurous and thought he could make Mom some cookies which he had never attempted. They were amazing. He did two kinds and spent two evenings making them. He also had never tried to bake a pie before. He settled on two, a chocolate cream pie with graham cracker/Oreo crumb crust and then he made the most amazing apple pie I have ever eaten. He was so worried that the pie wouldn’t come out ok and wanted to cut into it to test it before taking it up home for Christmas. I assured him it would be just fine, and it lived up to my expectations. Not only was it yummy, it looked good. (Actual pie pic below)
See what I mean? Betcha would like a slice with some ice cream! Jason is already planning to make his famous lasagna for New Year’s Eve when we have family over for dinner and a game night.
So, Santa found us. I’m typing on my new wireless keyboard/mouse and Jason is enjoying his Wii and several games. Tonight it doesn’t feel like Christmas is over. It has turned very mild, there’s dense fog and freezing rain is in the forecast. Temperatures tomorrow will be near 50! The weather has been so strange this winter! But… our vacation in Florida is only a month and a half away and we’re ready for some sun and fun.
We hope you all had a save and happy Christmas with your family and that 2009 is prosperous for everyone. Good health and Good friends!
Larry & Jason
Happy Holidays!
Dec 20th
We woud like to take this opportunity to wish you all the best of the season. Through FurFest, the East Coast Bears, and our web site, we have met some wonderful men from around the world. So to all of you, no matter where you are, here is our wish to you:
Afrikaans – een plesierige kerfees
Arabic – I’D MIILAD SAID OUA SANA SAIDA
Argentine – Felices Pasquas Y felices ano Nuevo
Armenian – Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Pari Gaghand
Azeri – Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun
Basque – Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!
Bohemian – Vesele Vanoce
Brazilian – Boas Festas e Feliz Ano Novo
Breton – Nedeleg laouen na bloavezh mat
Bulgarian – Tchestita Koleda; Tchestito Rojdestvo Hristovo
Chinese – (Mandarin) Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan (Catonese) Gun Tso Sun Tan’Gung Haw Sun
Cornish – Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth
Cree – Mitho Makosi Kesikansi
Croatian – Sretan Bozic
Czech – Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a stastny Novy Rok
Danish – Glædelig Jul
Dutch – Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!
English – Merry Christmas
Esperanto – Gajan Kristnaskon
Estonian – Ruumsaid juulup|hi
Farsi – Cristmas-e-shoma mobarak bashad
Finnish – Hyvaa joulua
French – Joyeux Noel
Frisian – Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!
German – Froehliche Weihnachten
Greek – Kala Christouyenna!
Hawaiian – Mele Kalikimaka
Hebrew – Mo’adim Lesimkha. Chena tova
Hindi – Shub Naya Baras
Hungarian – Kellemes Karacsonyi unnepeket
Icelandic – Gledileg Jol
Indonesian – Selamat Hari Natal
Iraqi – Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah
Irish – Nollaig Shona Dhuit
Italian – Buone Feste Natalizie
Japanese – Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto
Korean – Sung Tan Chuk Ha
Latvian – Prieci’gus Ziemsve’tkus un Laimi’gu Jauno Gadu!
Lithuanian – Linksmu Kaledu
Manx – Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa
Maori – Meri Kirihimete
Marathi – Shub Naya Varsh
Navajo – Merry Keshmish
Norwegian – God Jul
Pennsylvania German – En frehlicher Grischtdaag un en hallich Nei Yaahr!
Polish – Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia
Portuguese – Boas Festas
Rapa-Nui – Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi. Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua
Rumanian – Sarbatori vesele
Russian – Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva is Novim Godom
Serbian – Hristos se rodi
Slovakian – Sretan Bozic or Vesele vianoce
Sami – Buorrit Juovllat
Samoan – La Maunia Le Kilisimasi Ma Le Tausaga Fou
Scots Gaelic – Nollaig chridheil huibh
Serb-Croatian – Sretam Bozic. Vesela Nova Godina
Singhalese – Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa
Slovak – Vesele Vianoce. A stastlivy Novy Rok
Slovene – Vesele Bozicne. Screcno Novo Leto
Spanish – Feliz Navidad
Swedish – God Jul and (Och) Ett Gott Nytt År
Tagalog – Maligayamg Pasko. Masaganang Bagong Taon
Tamil – Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal
Thai – Sawadee Pee Mai
Turkish – Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun
Ukrainian – Srozhdestvom Kristovym
Urdu – Naya Saal Mubarak Ho
Vietnamese – Chung Mung Giang Sinh
Welsh – Nadolig Llawen
Yugoslavian – Cestitamo Bozic
Papua New Guinea – Bikpela hamamas blong dispela Krismas na Nupela yia i go long yu
And from the archives… I found this old picture from 1997, the first Christmas we were together. Wow! Have we changed.
My New Toy
Dec 17th
For Christmas, I bought myself a scanner that will do negatives and slides. I was digging though my desk and found some negatives. They were of our Civil Union which was done in Vermont at the home of our good friends Mongo & Ivan. Jason and I met in the summer of 1997, held a Commitment Ceremony at our home in January 1998, the Civil Union in 2001, then, when it finally became legal for us to marry in Canada, we did so on August 12, 2005. These pics from that beautiful spring day on a Vermont mountain top brought back some wonderful memories for me. I thought I’d share them with you. My, didn’t we look much younger.
Grover (our baby)
Dec 16th
Grover is our 7 year old tabby tomcat. He’s a runt for his age and loves lots of attention. We made this short video of him doing his impression of a dog. Enjoy…