The Meal

Thanksgiving meal was a success. We were joined by Angie's Mother and Uncle and his partner Charlie. We had not seen Uncle Bo and Charlie for years so it was great to have them over.
Here are a few pictures of the feed.

Dreams

Ainsley, who along with her sister, is a good student. She has dreams of attending the University of Colorado in Boulder and she has a good chance of making it. We decided to document her first visit to campus, so when she returns in 8 or 9 years we can say we saw her first.

Thanksgiving

Mike has tasted a fried turkey and decided to treat us with one. The only problem was that it would not fit into our frying pan. We looked for a turkey fryer on Craig's list. We found some but they were about 40 miles away and were about $80.00 used. We looked on the internet for some at Home Depot and found that one could order and shipped in five days for about $80.00 plus postage. Angie being a great shopper chose to go over the the store and found them in stock for $68.00. Go figure.
Never the less we purchased two small turkeys and 6 gallons of oil for about $30.00 the turkey was cooked. I had to put dirt under the cooker to sop up the grease as it splattered like crazy.
After about 45 minutes apiece they were pulled out. It was great.

Uncle Mike Arrives

Uncle Mike and his family dropped in from Anchorage for Thanksgiving. Atticus Ainsely and Sofie really enjoyed seeing each other.

Atticus and His Letters

Atticus loves whenever he visits the grandparents, to work on gramp's computer. Grampa will bring up Word, enlarge the font, and then let Atticus type his letters. He loves to hold a key down and let the letter show up and then tell grampa what the letter is.

Great Grandparents

Here are pictures of my great grandparents. They are my mother's mother's. Antonia Strunk and her artist husband, Frank. They arrived from Germany in the early 1900's and moved to Chicago. Frank was commissioned by the Roman Catholic church to design and complete sculptures of saints for the church. I guess he was pretty good. In the mean time his wife, Antonia, raised a family and created a small fortune in real estate much of which she lost during the 30's depression. She climbed back though and by the time she passed on she had a comfortable portfolio of stock which she carried around in a carpet bag.

Dinner at Podolak's

Friday night a few ago, we had a fish chowder dinner. As usual, Chuck was over the top. In fact, it smelled so good, Ashley decided to come over.