Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Ross & Owen

Guaranteed not to rip, bust, collect dust, roll downhill, or unravel
We started this month on Ross’s “College Selection Tour.” Our first stop was at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Virginia. Next we stopped at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Mom and Dad are JMU Alumni and our visit just happened to coincide with JMU’s annual Homecoming. Dad’s brother, who is also a JMU Alumnus, and his family were there too. We had a good time visiting with our cousins and taking in the Homecoming activities.
Another big event this month was Baby J’s First Birthday on the 17th. She’s the daughter of Pop-Pop’s brother’s daughter, so she’s our cousin (twice removed we think!).
Pop-Pop celebrated his bionic right hip’s first birthday on the 7th. He had the surgery on the day after the 2012 Presidential Election.
We celebrated Thanksgiving Day away from home for the last several years, which made Mom happy as she didn’t have to cook a turkey and all the trimmings. This year we stayed home and had two turkeys to choose from – one roasted and one fried. Granny, Pop-Pop, Bud, Linda, and all the dogs were here. A good time was had by all, except when watching the Pittsburgh Steelers lose to their arch rivals, the Baltimore Ravens, 22 to 20.
And last, but certainly not least, Mom and Dad celebrated 20 years of wedded bliss on the 6th of the month.
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Ross & Owen

October is Mom’s favorite month. She really likes this time of year and always decorates the house and yard with stuff that has an "Autumnal" theme, which of course includes lots of Halloween decorations.
Some Halloween Music
More Halloween Music
Round about the caldron go; In the poison’d entrails throw. Toad, that under cold stone, Days and nights has thirty-one; Swelter’d venom sleeping got, Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot! — First Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. — Witches, “Macbeth,” IV:1
Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and bake: eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue of dog, adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting, lizard’s leg and howler’s wing, for a charm of pow’rful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble. — Second Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. — Witches, “Macbeth,” IV:1
Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf; Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark; Root of emlock digg’d i’ the dark; Liver of blaspheming Jew; Gall of goat, and slips of yew Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse; Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips; Finger of birth-strangled babe Ditch-deliver’d by a drab, Make the gruel thick and slab: Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron, For the ingrediants of our caldron. — Third Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble. — Witches, “Macbeth,” IV:1
Cool it with a baboon’s blood, Then the charm is firm and good. — Second Witch, “Macbeth,” IV:1
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Ross & Owen
