Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Monday, December 29, 2008
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Saturday, December 27, 2008
149 At the Beach
146 Christmas Eve Excitement
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
143 We Walked to Bethlehem...and part way back
This fall about 40 people from St. John's took up the challenge to combine our steps and walk from Bethlehem Township, PA to Bethlehem, West Bank, Israel by Christmas. Every step counted, whether at work or working out. We planned on 11 weeks and made it with 1500 miles on the return trip. Here are some of the feet that made the trip.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
142 After the Snow
Friday, December 19, 2008
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
137 The List
Santa makes a list of who's naughty and who's nice. My list is what needs to be done in the next ten days. I was feeling a bit overwhelmed and needed some order to the chaos called mid-December that includes, but is not limited to, baking, sermon writing, Christmas shopping, meetings, homebound communion visits, and the ever present laundry. At this time of year I have been known to say, "I have a list. If it's not on the list, it's not going to happen." It usually works and sanity eventually returns.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
135 Red Nose Runner
Last June my colleague Rich Mauthe and I both ended up scheduling surgeries for July. Mine was on my foot.
His was single bypass. A long time marathoner, he asked if I wanted to run the Christmas City Classic in December. "By that time," he said, "I should be up to it." I said, "Sure." He said it would be our "coming out party." But this was no quick 5k run. This was 5 miles. 2 miles longer than a 5k. 2 miles longer than any of my training runs in the past month. I was so excited he wanted to run with me, at my slow, gal-umping pace. He was happy to pace with someone slow to not over do it after being on a bypass pump for 50 minutes 5 months ago. We started at the back of the pack. We stayed at the back of the pack. Our only goal was to finish and we did. He picked up his pace the last half mile. As much as he wanted to have a triumphal finish together he needed to get back to his church for a funeral. My number one fan,husband Rich, saw me off, met me at end and took some pictures of the highlights. I crossed the finish line with a time of 1:02:26.
One of the features of this race was everyone was encouraged to dress up in red and green and there were prizes for the best costumes. Husband Rich told me about this runner before the race started. "There's someone with a red nose," he said. I commented that I had a red nose since it was 27 degrees and snowing lightly. He said, "This one's blinking."
Here are pictures Rich took of me at the race.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
132 It Snakes Through the Basement
Monday, December 8, 2008
130 The Sort Continues
Sunday, December 7, 2008
129 Snowman
Saturday, December 6, 2008
127 Sam & Estizer
Our photo documentary class received our copies of the book we worked on during December's First Friday at the Banana Factory and our working prints were exhibited around the room. Several shots of the Boor family at dinner were in the book and on the walls and Alison and Sam came to the event while Christian was at a Boy Scout event. Here Sam signs the page his picture is on for Estizer, one of my classmates. Behind Sam are some favorite people; Alison, Sharon Ann and Rich. I don't know who is behind Estizer.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
125 It's All About the Chocolate
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
Monday, December 1, 2008
123 The Whole Musical Ensemble
I will grant that we are a bit of a musical family. After all, Rich owns 11 guitars, Nate is studying at Berklee School of Music, and both boys played in the Liberty High School Band. But there is a whole other side to the whole musical ensemble. Every Easter Vigil Rich reads the story of the three men and the fiery furnace that repeats the line, "When you hear the sound of the horn, pipe, lyre, trigon, harp, drum, and entire musical ensemble, you are to fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up." I don't think this is the same musical ensemble as King Nebuchadnezzar. This one has an accordion.
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