January 31

Here is the church across the street from us at the start of Handel's Messiah last night.

XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL

If you go to this web site, www.LetsSayThanks.com you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq. You can't pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.

I took a few pics of the blizzard we are having today. We had about 8 inches so our total for the winter is already nearly 20 inches! Part of Mpls may get up to 16 inches--possibly where Jake lives. It may be a long winter! Dan and Liz

Yes, Liz and Dan, Mpls/St Paul is reporting this storm, along with the record snowfall this early, as setting "An all Time Record" in the Twin Cities for this early stage of late fall. ...Bro Ray

And on the topic of ice, thanks Tom and Ann for hosting me for a few overnights while I attended a conference in Washington D.C.

Glad you had such a nice time at the Nationals Hockey Team game just before I arrived.

Congrats Ann to your former student Zack Bogosian, now a superstar with the Atlanta Thrashers. You were sitting pretty close to get that shot!

Tom, here's something you see every day, but filmed when Dad was less than a year old, and Mom wasn't yet born.

Win Perkins, a real estate appraiser who specializes in airport properties, has posted on his Web site a video he created of Charles Lindbergh's famous and risky take off in the Spirit of St. Louis . According to Perkins, this is unlike any other presentation of the take off footage. Perkins painstakingly assembled news footage from five different camera men who filmed Lindbergh's take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island. He then mixed it with enhanced audio from the same newsreel sources.

(Click on triangle overlay of airplane) http://www.airportappraisals.com/

Even though Mom/Grandma/Aunt Nellie isn't on face book herself, we can think of her today on her birthday and be grateful for the joy she has given us all over the years!

You are loved so much!

Have a wonderful day and I will see you tonight!

Joanne

Mom,

You still outdid me watching Jeopardy together last week,

but I did get 11 of these right. Thanks for the genes!

http://pewresearch.org/politicalquiz/quiz/index.php

Subject: Louie correctly answered 12 out of the 12 possible questions, on the Pew News IQ Quiz! http://pewrsr.ch/9U8jNF

Date: 12/12/2010 6:06:42 P.M. Eastern Standard Time

On second thought, why wasn't I an only child to have exclusive rights to these Genes !?!