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Illustration by Alli Arnold Today was pretty much a lazy day of hanging around the house, we are all going a little stir crazy, what with th...

winter makes a dramatic display in white here in Germany, that's for sure...I keep expecting to see the White Witch's sledge pull ar...

Here's my attempt at a self-portrait...

Dan shovels the walk so we can get to the patio where we will shoot fireworks...

a snowman family portrait...These were the first snowpeople I've made since we lived in TN when I was 3...so really the first I remember...

Dan and Nette putting on the finishing touches...

E with the snow lady...

Me and the kids with our snow people. See the old army hat on the snow man? It's from a British soldier found in a German field after ...

The snow hit most of Europe. It made the news. Here's a link with the story . In this picture, you can see how thick it was. My footprin...

Looks picturesque, doesn't it? But shoveling snow is much harder work than this Mississippi boy expected it to be!

This is a neat spiral staircase behind E & D's school. I'll post some more pics like this on my design blog. If you want to se...

I promised Ellen I would post a couple of more flattering pictures of her on the blog for all of you, after showing her so many times hidden...

Here's one Ellen's mom made of her on the same day - my beautiful niece!

Here's the Ellen I remember from the last time I visited Germany. She sure has grown up a lot.

Here's a link to MSN's live video feed from Time's Square . If you are like me (no US TV), you will appreciate it.

Guess which movie we are watching tonight...

Berliner-Pfannkuchen (Wikipedia)

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We finished breakfast, and David and Annette ran to catch the bus into Buchholz to pick up some fresh Berliners for tonight's celebrati...