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Friday, December 27, 2024

I Only Bought Stuff That Tastes Good!

I can't believe it! Another Christmas has come and gone.

If you celebrated this holiday, I hope that you had a great time with your family and friends.

Christmas Morning with Our Little Traveling Tree

Aurora, Colorado, USA

December 25, 2024

Terry and I stayed home this Christmas and had a relaxing time together.

We curled up on the couch and laughed at romantic Christmas movies,

something we've never done before.

Santa managed to find us, even though we confused him by staying home!

December 24, 2024

Since it was just the two of us and we didn't want to eat a huge meal,

Terry offered to go to Trader Joe's a couple of days before Christmas

and pick up some easy to prepare food for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

Like I'm going to turn down the first offer ever like that!

"I only bought stuff that tastes good!" Terry announced gleefully when he returned.

Oh, oh!

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Santa knew Terry was good this year!

December 25, 2024

Me Too!

December 25, 2024

Let's just say Terry and I had tasty meals on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day,

and I woke up to the delicious smell of almond croissants

baking in the oven on Christmas morning.

There are vegetables in feta and spinach spanakopita, spring rolls and quiche, right?

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Santa's got your number, Buddy!

December 25, 2024

My scale did not show me any love or mercy when I stepped on it this morning!

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Oh well, I just returned from Target with salad, tomatoes, blueberries, and bananas,

and we'll start anew with healthy food tomorrow.

By then all the "stuff that tastes good" will be gone,

except that big box of decadent European dark chocolates Terry gave me,

that small box of caloric, salty, sweet, and fatty treats I gifted him,

and the delicious Christmas cookies our next door neighbor gave us.

New Year's Resolution

Honolulu, Hawaii, USA

January 16, 2024

I'm linking to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date, Tom's Aloha Friday, and Nicole's Friday Face Off.

For Rain: Cheers! ~ Two of Our Favorite People at the Hideout in Waikiki. Jeremy and Erwin have been so kind to us over the years!

Jeremy and Erwin

At the Hideout at the Laylow in Waikiki

Honolulu, Honolulu, USA

February 25, 2024

For Tom: Love is Aloha ~ My sisters Barb and Bertie, with the help of their guys Pat and Peter, bought a gorgeous 14-foot fir, set it up in Donnie and Martin's home, and decorated it for Christmas. This was a welcome surprise to Donnie and Martin traveling from Calgary and their family coming from all across Canada and London in the UK to spend Christmas in the Cove. I have the best siblings in the world!

The Welcome Home Aloha Tree

For Nicole: My Favorite Christmas Face ~ Not just on Christmas Day, but on any day!

Merry Christmas, Honey!

Wishing you all happiness and love in 2025! ❤️❤️❤️

Till next time ~

Fundy Blue

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My next post will be

Friday, January 3rd. 🤞

On the Bay of Fundy
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Friday, December 30, 2022

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Everyone!

If you celebrated Christmas or Hanukkah, I hope you had

an enjoyable and meaningful time with your loved ones and friends.

Sunrise, Today, on Almost New Year's Eve

Aurora, Colorado USA

December 30, 2022

Terry and I had lots of fun at home on Christmas Day

and then a lovely time with his sister Noreen, brother-in-law Cathal, and their grown "kids."

Terry, Early Christmas Morning

Aurora, Colorado USA

December 25, 2022

Me, Early Christmas Morning

Aurora, Colorado USA

December 25, 2022

As for "the reason for the season," the birth of Christ,

I listened to a sermon given by my blogging friend, Jeff,

who is the pastor of two small Presbyterian churches (Mayberry and Bluemont)

along the Blue Ridge parkway in Southwestern Virginia.

Jeff and I were blogging friends for several years before I knew

that he was The Reverend Doctor Jeff Garrison.

I had suspected that Jeff was a minister because of his interests and activities,

but at the time he was keeping his personal blog separate from his religious life

(as far as I knew).

It's no secret that organized religion and I have had our differences

and that I have some unconventional beliefs ~

Okay, I probably would have been burned at the stake as a heretic in the past ~

but Jeff is one of several special people who keep me connected

with my Christian roots.

I claim to be an agnostic, but I do believe in a Spiritual Presence,

a Creator who is beyond anything we can imagine as human beings.

Quantum physics is one confirmation for scientific me.

This Image Illustrates an Atom

Wikipedia

NASA’s Webb Delivers Deepest Infrared Image of Universe Yet

"Webb’s image covers a patch of sky approximately the size of a grain of sand held at arm’s length by someone on the ground – and reveals thousands of galaxies in a tiny sliver of vast universe" ~ NASA

Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI

Meanwhile I find spiritual meaning and hope in Jeff's sermons and musings.

If you enjoy engrossing stories and poems, excellent book reviews,

the great outdoors, philosophical discussions,

travel adventures, and thought-provoking sermons,

I highly recommend Jeff's blog From A Rocky Hillside.

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On Friday I like to participate in Rain's Thursday Art Date and Nicole's Friday Face Off,

even if my main post topic is about something else.

Rain's theme this week is New Year's Eve Party!

Sadly, I had to go back to 2015 to find party photos.

We were at our favorite restaurant Parkway Bar and Grill.

My camera was having a great time (and perhaps a little tipsy)!

Terry at a New Year's Eve Party

Parkway Bar and Grill

Aurora, Colorado USA

December 31, 2015

The truth is Terry and I usually stay home for New Year's Eve.
We think it's too dangerous to go out,
especially with people distracted, drinking, and driving,
sometimes in bad weather or with dicey road conditions.
We'll chance an evening at Parkway, but we don't like driving,

even a short half-mile distance on the road.

Me at a New Year's Eve Party

Parkway Bar and Grill

Aurora, Colorado USA

December 31, 2015

We usually have a quiet evening together at home watching the ball drop in Times Square.

This was my one photo from New Year's Eve 2022.

A Blue Wildebeest, also called a Brindled Gnu

(My best guess at identification)

Tembe Elephant Park ~ Maputaland, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Location of Tembe Elephant Park in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Wikipedia

Note: Eswatini was Swaziland prior to April 2018

Lesotho was the British Crown Colony Basutoland prior to 1966

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For Nicole's Friday Face Off, I'm sharing a few faces.

Our Nephew Conor and His Girlfriend Dessie

Denver, Colorado USA

December 25, 2022

Bruno

Denver, Colorado USA

December 25, 2022

Terry and I at a New Year's Eve Party

Parkway Bar and Grill

Aurora, Colorado USA

December 31, 2015

An Absorbed Face

Aurora, Colorado USA

December 29, 2022

I hope 2023 brings each of you happiness, health, fulfillment, and love!

Till next time ~
Fundy Blue

My next post will be on

Wednesday, January 4, 2023. 🤞

Some New Year Funnies

This has nothing to do with New Years Eve,

but is tangentially related to quantum physics.

The dog is sleepy from quantum physics class.

A very friendly dog that has been living outside the main building for physics

for the last few weeks at Simón Bolívar University.

Juan Tello at Flickr ~ October 24, 2008

This has absolutely nothing to do with anything, but I love it!

I lifted it from one of my blogging friends.

It speaks to my alter ego ~ lol!

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Books Read in 2026

"18 Days in Heaven" by Gale Poirot
"A Serial Killer's Daughter: My Story of Hope, Love, and Overcoming" by Kerrie Rawson
"Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life" by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD.
"Is Math Real? How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics Deepest Truths" by Eugenia Cheng
"Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir
"Tell Me Everything" by Elizabeth Strout
"The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese
"The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity" by David Graeber and David Wengrow
"The Life Impossible" by Matthew Haig
"The Lord go the Rings" by JRR Tolkien
"The Match" by Harlan Corben
"The Night the Path Disappeared" by Terri Bergen
"The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper" by Roland Allen
"Theo of Golden" by Allen Levi
"Think Twice" by Harlan Corben
"Why Christianity Must Change Or Die" by John Shelby Spong

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