The B girls seconds after being suprised.
Libby and Josiah not long after we picked them up.
The ball we hosted up at our shop.

The Jac.

Double Suprise

Well the other day my brothers, sister, mom, and, I where at a coffee shop to drop off Abby so she could meet some friends. So I was just sort of standing around when I see a couple and there baby walk in the door. For a minute I thought nothing of it till I did a double take "wow they look a lot like Andrew and Bethany and Jac". Well they where Andrew and Bethany and Jac. You could have nocked me over whith a tooth-pick.
Later on Libby and Josiah get out of a car that was behind us when we picked up my dad at work. I have to say that Libby and Josiah where not that big of a suprise to because of things I heard and thought, but I will not go into all of that now. All in all a very odd yet fun afternoon. Than lastnight at the ball Libby and Josiah Suprised the B family which was great. I will post some pictures later.

Chip

Christmas pictures

The feast.











Cheistmas Eve. Me with my new whatch and Stephen with his shirt and tie.

Merry Christmas

Hope everyone has a great Christmas. And remember the reason for the season.

From the North Pole,

This is Chip

I would like snow please!_!

I really really want some snow. Today it got to the edge of our county and just went away. I would like just one inch of white snow. After all Christmas is 4 days away. I am running another vote.

Chip

Christmas quotes

If every day where like Christmas what a wonderful world this would be~ Owner of JCpenny

He can see you when your sleeping, he knows when your awake he knows..... Santa, jolly old elf or C.I.A agent.

He who has not Chritmas in his heart will never find it under a tree~ Roy L. Smith

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time~ Laura Ingalls Wilder

When we were chidren we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs? ~G.K. Chesterton

Nothing's as mean as giving a child something useful for Christmas. ~Kin Hubbard

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more. ~ Dr. Seuss


Merry Christmas,
Chip

What I have been doing most of the summer and late fall.

My hand dug fort. Thanks to Seth and Nat B, and to Isaac and Joel B, and to my brother Douglas for the help and effort they put in.
The haze is due to fireplace problems.

Snow

We got snow. We only got about a 1 mm. But I am still glad that it is at least below freezing. Yes yes yes. Thank you for the votes I think they helped. Anyway I am just so glad for some real winter weather. To bad the picture above was not taken by me.

Yikes

Last night we got our Christmas Tree and decorated the house. And I am proud to state that I got all my Christmas shopping done. Also Stephen is home for Christmas. Therefore due to conditons I think Christmas should be here in 17 days. Wait, I just got a weather report that says that says 39*F for tomorrow. And we only have about an inch of snow. AAHHH we need a blizzard. Cast your vote here if you want a blizzard.

Chip

Nice pictures.

I miss my sister Libby. Way to go on the job.

We have snow.

Do I like snow? Yes. Do like it better when there is something that needs to get done before the
the snow comes and it comes just as I finish. Yes Yes. So we got about an inch of snow last night
that came in a windy hurry and left in a... well I am not sure because I was sleeping. But I do know it left for the simple reason that when I woke up it was gone. Now the ground is white and it looks so nice.

Chip

Just some pictures.

The Nat. My aunt and uncle... ah yea
These pictures have no deep meaning. So do not try to figure them out.

Some more history. Because there are no new pictures.

The swastika is an ancient symbol often used as an ornament or religious sighn. The swastika is the form of cross with the ends of the arms bent at right angles in a given direction, usually cloclwise. The swastika has been found on Byzantine buildings, Buddhist inscriptions, Celtic monuments, and Greek coins. Swastikas were widely used symbols among the Indians of North and South America. The clockwise swastika was adopted in 1920 as the symbol of the National Socialist Party of Germany. As such it came to be one of the most hated symbols in the history of humanity. It came to stand for all the evil associated with the Nazis as they gained control of Europe before and during World War ll. After the Allies defeated Germany in 1945, they banned the display of of the swastika emblem.

Chip

Happy Thank... Oh you know what I am going to say.

Sgiving. And happy day after Thanksgiving or black Friday as some call it. And believe it or not my sister is going shopping to day. I mean I do not care for shpping to start out with[shuddder]. Today is also the birthday of Bat Masterson and Scott Joplin. Here is one last bit of neat history about today. On this day in 1962 Dawn Fraser, an Australian swimmer, sets the 11th of her 12 world records and the eighth of nine in a row in the 100-meter freestyle with a time of 59.5 seconds. Well have a good Friday I mean a good black friday.


Chip

Missing link

I do not like this phrase because it assumes that there is a missing link. If it is missing and you
have never seen it than how do you know there is such a thing? But if you have found it (which some claim they have) then it is no longer the missing link but the found one. So in truth, for the ones who do not believe that there is such a thing(like myself) , we should call it the link that never was. And I will let the people that think they have found the link that never was think up a name for there so called found link. I think that those who say ,"missing link", should not say it unless they really think that there is a link that is missing.
Even though there is no evidence. But that is a different sort of thing to talk about some other time.

Chip

Trip to Canada

My great, great Aunt.

The border.
Went to Canada (as is stated clearly above) this weekend to visit my great, great Aunt. And had a great time. My grandma and grandpa came with us also.









Thursday night and this afternoon we have been burning the pond.

Well so far this week has been normal(unlike most). Of course it is only Monday. You never know who will walk in the door or call or.. or anything can happen. Though it is only Monday I am in full stride. Did school this morning, this afternoon I went woodcarving, then to TKD, and from there I came home ate dinner, did dishes, and some other odds and ends that are pointless to bring up.

I would stop telling what I am doing and post pictures but due to computer breakdowns and camera breakdowns the amount of pictures in this house are minimal, the maximum of which you have seen on mine and my family members blogs. Hope you get that.

Chip

Random... or sort of

Content cat.

Fall is here and the bees are gone.













No Michael is not going to graduate.

Pictures from when Libby was home.

Libby got a phone call. ahah That is why she is not in this one.
Making that Lefse. Yaa
I took this one and thought it was cool.
I miss her boo hoo hoo.

Oh and conserning the photo of grass below. Ther are is an ox cart
trail that you can hardly make out.

Well October is gone and my sister will be the same way soon/..And with November comes hunters and this year those guys who say," vote for me and you will have everything your way. When if they where
really telling the truth they would say, "vote for
me and you will wish you never had. Ok maybe
that is going a little to far but somtimes it is way to close.

The picture above has something in it besides grass that is important. I will put the answer on my next post.



Well so long.

Chip