Time to bundle up!  Man the cold came in with a vengeance this weekend didn't it? No need to tell us as we all went downtown to the 87th annual Milwaukee Christmas parade.  17 degrees,  and the wind, man I think we were near zero on the windchill.   My clan staked out a site in front and we were on TV a lot.  I have the parade dvr'd and it is funny to see how cold we look.  Bundled up, barely see a face, then there is me standing behind or to the side, arms out like Ralphie on Christmas Story.  Mom and Jenny were a little further away and because of the cold, no one was willing to pull up camp.

So cold that Kiki was really miserable and we had to quit before we even finished the parade.  Took some time but she got the feeling back in her feet and hands and we were off to breakfast at Blues on 76th street. Wait, what?  A 90 minute wait, no thanks.  Back to Miss Katie's Diner for a great brunch of eggs, hash-browns and sausage.

Been kind of slacking on the posts here lately.   Not a lot of newsworthy stuff going on.  Mostly a lot of house and winter prep.  Garage the lawn tractor, fire up the snow blower, patio furniture into storage, leaf remove and all that kind of necessary crap.

This time next week we will be watching the packer game, eating Thanksgiving meal and mom's house.  Joel will be home for a few days.   First time we will have seen him since we left him in August.

Enjoy the rest of your week!

Not a whole lot going on right now.   Mackenzie is in full basketball season swing.  The camp she went to last summer shows the improvement.  She still plays with the second string, but pretty much runs the show then.  She has double digits in rebounds and at least 10 points through 6 games and at least 2 steals per game.

Fun to watch and I really need to replace my backboard for her next spring.  Get some summer help and even play summer ball.  Crazy to think but next year will be high school ball.

So many seasons

Ya know what season it is now?  Mail order catalog season.  Holiday catalogs are hitting your mailboxes.

Seriously.  In two days of mail we have got:

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Woolrich
Lucky Jeans
East Bay
Northern Brewer
LL bean
Title nine
Delia's

And there will be more.  very soon.  I wont even count the Kohls and Target ones yet.

October

Well its over.  Birthday month has come to a close.  It was a great month.

We went to Ninja Japanese steakhouse for my birthday dinner.  The food was pretty good  but the atmosphere was better, well no so much the atmosphere as the small show you always get at one of these places.  The knife work, the showmanship, tossing vegetable bits to be caught in your mouth as the chef flings them at you.  Don't get too dressed up at this point.  The guy then takes a squeeze bottle of sake and starts squirting it at your mount as well.  We all had a good laugh as Tracy wore more of it than she actually got in her mouth.  Quite humorous.  Then at the end they turn on some crazy happy birthday song and come out with a dessert and sparkler that they light at the table.

I also couldn't forget that yesterday was our 21st wedding anniversary.  What can I say?  The number kind of speaks for it's self.

It's been almost 2 weeks since my last post.  I had so many things I wanted to add.  Like us going to the pumpkin farm and then we had a Halloween party (thanks to all those who came).  Carving pumpkins and pumpkin seed making and decorating.  Man I feel like I am missing a bunch of other things.