Holiday Traditions

When it comes to Uni, no rice or seaweed needed.

I was so excited about the Pho, I couldn't see clearly.

You really get a good Bang Pho the buck there.  Sorry.

Wurst fabric, best gelato.

Great-Grandson of Russ.

Daughters in front of Russ & Daughters.

Merry Christmas Friends!

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Christmas Eve was never complete without this 

very book.  I will be reading aloud this evening.

With every new page, Santa and his reindeer would change looks.

Grandma was very creative and it kept things interesting.  

I could never understand how people had Christmas in Florida 

when there was no snow.  How could there be Christmas 

without snow, Charlie Brown?

Talk about someone finding their true life's calling

in their 70's.  She's right up there with Wyeth and

Rockwell as far as originality, if you ask me.

You can vote any way you want. But Merry Christmas!

Just Because

Sublime.  I may not be able to sleep tonight. 

Blue Blazer

Museum docent or NBC page, I had the look:  Blue blazer

with blue cotton oxford button down, and a striped tie.

Classic yacht club attire, and since it was after Labor Day, 

dark slacks- no khakis.  Hans was still in Good Humor man 

mode.  Hey, ice cream is a year-round treat.  We were no

doubt ready to go to a Christmas Eve service, and it looks

like Mom took the bottom strand of gingerbread man cookies

from the tree and hung them around the kitchen doorframe.

Dachshunds love gingerbread man cookies.

Foiled again!  They'll slip up eventually.  They're only human.

It's All About the Barnegat Bay

If you looked across the bay at this point and then to the right,

North about 200 yards, you'd see the familiar Beaton's skyline.

This Mantoloking family was, and still is in my mind, one of the

most familiar and recognizable presences on Barnegat Bay.

That lime green Penguin gave me and my Dad fits for several

years on the Bay and around Region II.  Those Lasers were no 

doubt sub-1000 in the hull number department.  And the Duck

Boat?  I wouldn't even venture a guess.

These brothers made mincemeat of the bay for years, and the 

skipper sails to this day in an E-scow.  He's won scores of

regattas, local and national.  I love the wooden deck on this M

 and how far forward the whisker pole was set.  I know they grew 

up in Manasquan, but I wonder where Billy got the red jersey.  

It reminds me of my school's colors, a school that was and is a

fierce rival of the Warriors in the next town over.

There must've been a big regatta coming up.  Skip, far right, 

provided the rig and the other skippers figured if they brought

the Rheingold, they could pile on for the trip. Who ever stacks 

M-scows on trailers?  Besides Skip?

And on the roof-top as well?