seasons greetings, 2009

...you may recall we were just crazy busy last year, with little time for holiday preparation

we didn't even have time for a proper family photo (see?! --> )

So this year we went all out      
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Really, tho, we helped Jan's Mom move up this way, and we moved in with her. We had an adventurous Spring, being featured in an episode of TLC's 'Moving Up' (see photo gallery link, below). We've been fixing up two houses and still have several box towers to contend with.

Things have finally settled a bit. Mom's being creative in her bright new studio, Jan's rolling between computers doing freelance, Ken's providing business solutions with Konica Minolta, Tyler's making latte's at Dunkin Donuts and Tristen is devising questionable experiments in Science class.

Let us know how you are doing:

 

 

New Address:

10 Trolley Road
Cortlandt Manor NY 10567

email me for our new phone number (links and more, below)

link to 2009 photo gallery

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this year's amusements... (gathered from the internet... mostly...):

Some News Headlines In The Year 2035
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Ozone created by electric cars now killing millions in the seventh largest country in the world: California.

Baby conceived naturally.... Scientists stumped.

Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be imported legally but President Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

Postal Service raises price of first class stamp to $7.89 and reduces mail delivery to Wednesday only.

35 year study: diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.

Upcoming NFL draft likely to focus on use of mutants.

Average height of NBA players now nine feet seven inches.

New federal law requires that all nail clippers, screwdrivers, fly swatters, and rolled up newspapers must be registered by January 2036.

IRS sets lowest tax rate at 75%.

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"There are three -- and only three -- kinds of people in this world:

Those who don't know they're damaged and blame others;

those who realize they're damaged and blame others;

and then people like you and me, who wear damage like comfortable pajamas."

-- Serge (Nuclear Jellyfish,
by Tim Dorsey)

 

 

(Calvin & Hobbes)

 

A burglar broke into a house one night. He shone his flashlight around, looking for valuables when a voice in the dark said, "Jesus knows you're here."

He nearly jumped out of his skin, clicked off his flashlight, and froze. After a moment, when he heard nothing more he continued. Just as he pulled out the stereo, clear as a bell he heard, "Jesus is watching you."

Freaked out, he shone his light around frantically, looking for the source of the voice. There, in the corner of the room, his flashlight beam came to rest on a parrot. "Did you say that?" he hissed at the parrot.

"Yep," the parrot confessed, then said, "I'm just trying to warn you that he is watching you."

The burglar relaxed. "Warn me, huh? Who are you to warn me?"

"Moses," replied the bird.

"Moses?" The burglar laughed. "What kind of people would name a bird 'Moses'?"

"The same kind of people that would name a Rottweiler 'Jesus'."

 

 
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