Holiday Dinner Style. . .

The Young Master, already a bit silly and eager to sit down to the Thanksgiving table here.

The Young Master and yours truly, the old so and so.

The Young Master and his mother, the bright lights of my life. He has, for better or worse, inherited his father's sense of humor and class clown approach to the rest of the world. As my wife observed last night at dinner, living with both of us is like living with a combination of Peter Sellars, Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, Martin Short, and Jerry Lewis. Good. We'd be big in France.

Three photographs taken a few minutes before Thanksgiving Dinner was served last Thursday evening here at Totleigh-in-the-Wold. The Young Master, as always, was the star of the show, but ol' Mom and Dad look pretty good too. Accumulating snow today (Monday morning), and school has already decided to close due to the weather, so the long Thanksgiving weekend will last a day longer than expected. Not a bad thing at all.

-- Heinz-Ulrich

The view up our street from the front stoop this afternoon just after running the snowblower for the first time this season -- it started like a charm -- and shoveling out a few tighter spots.

And down the same street.
L.L. Bean 'duck shoes' and Bean Boots, ladies and gentlemen.

And the woods across our back yard. I never tire of the winter landscape here in Mid-Michigan. While we have some wonderful places for cross-country skiing not too far away, it is possible to set a reasonably interesting course around the house for those times when we can't get away.

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