Best E-mails of the Week Dec 24, 2006
Sette Pesce !
Seven Fishes Dinner!
Mom in her kitchen prepares the Christmas Eve dinner.
1. This is the Crab Rangoon.
2. Baked Clams.
Dad and Joanne at the table where we took these pictures.
3. Crab Cakes.
4. Mussels Marinara.
5. Baccala Salad (Cod)
6. Calamari
I asked Mom if we could take another picture of the Calamari with the pasta. Here it is.
7. Fried Scallops and Fried Shrimp.
Shrimp cocktail sort of counts as #7 with the other shrimp.
There were not, I repeat not 8 fish dishes at the seven fish dinner!
9. Cauliflower and Cod - Same cod used in dish number five !
So there you have the sette pesce!
Enjoying this scrumptious Christmas Eve meal are:
Mary, Kristen, Greg, Tom, Kate and Chris.
And across from them, Raf, Julie, Bob, Dan and Mary. Lou was helping in kitchen.
At the head of the table, beloved hosts Mom and Dad.
We so enjoyed the picture album from Raf and Julie on Christmas morning, as well as Greg's and Kristen's gifts.
Christmas afternoon saw Mary and Kristen walking in our neighborhood.
Then a wonderful Christmas night at Lou and Mary's with the cousins, uncles and aunts.
Why can't every day be Christmas?
Meanwhile up north, Auntie Rose was featured in the local paper
telling about her Christmas times during the Depression with my Dad and family.
"We didn't know how poor we were."
who now makes her home in ..., was no
exception. Rose said Christmas always remained a special time for the ... family, a far cry from the commercialism she feels dominates the holiday today. Reminiscing inside her .. home recently, Rose said she has first-hand knowledge that people do not need a lot of money or gifts
to feel the true joy of the holiday season.
city of Tuckahoe to start a small farm.. located in upstate New York. Upon arrival, the entire family of five needed to live in a tent,
then a garage, and finally a traditional
free-standing home. would be found beneath their Christmas tree.
Yet it never seemed to matter, for the family
had plenty of homemade pasta, cookies and cake to eat. What the
family did have was time together and the imagination to make the holiday
special.
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The 12 days of Christmas begin tomorrow!
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1017129949136
Thanks Doctor Donna for this nice card to Mary and me.
I love the image!
Meanwhile Christmas up north.
This is a night vision movie from Iraq, showing real live action against Iraqi insurgents.
The pictures were taken from an AC130 Specter gunship two and a half miles away. The guys in the picture are setting up a roadside
bomb and planning to ambush an American convoy which followed a short while after the pictures were taken. They were setting up for
the ambush and were pacing off the distance from the bomb to where the convoy was to pass by.
Turn your sound up. The level of effort these crews put forth to control the enemy's actions is commendable, and their marksmanship
with those electronically controlled 40mm cannons is astounding.
(See attached file: IraqiNight.wmv)
Read out loud the text inside the triangle below.
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More than likely you said, "A bird in the bush," and........
if this IS what YOU said, then you failed to see
that the word THE is repeated twice!
Sorry, look again.
Next, let's play with some words.
What do you see?
It's all very physiological too, because it visualize the concept that good can't exist ! without evil
(or the absence
of good is evil ).
You probably read the word ME in brown, but.......
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Here is the picture Mary and I sent out with cards:
Taken in Rhode Island in November.
Merry Christmas and Happy holidays to you!
Pete