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So excited to see this excursion pop up for our October cruise that goes to Tortola. The Soggy Dollar Bar at Jost Van Dyke has been on my bucket list for years. We are officially booked. Merry Christmas to me!

No but I will now. I plan on doing a side by side comparison in the next day or so. I will post my thoughts. The 12 was really, really nice. Happy Hanukkah wished to you and to everyone who celebrates. Let their be light.

I want to get this Ugle Christmas Sweater!

One of my favorite lines from the movie. I will watch this year as I have every year since the movie came out on Christmas Eve. Such a fun tradition.

Sorry I haven't been around much. Trying to get ready for the last Christmas party I'm hosting. This is number 3 with some of my remaining family members and some of my dearest longtime friends. Unfortunately one couple had to cancel due to Covid, another ended up with last minute conflict, and two dad and son who i've worked with for years are on the road to cover the Chiefs game in Houston. So I went from 12 to now 6 and it's depressing but what can you do? All the food is ordered and I will have to make due. At least one bit a good news. My liquor store owner friend came through on my request to purchase a highly coveted and allocated bourbon Pappy Van Winkle 12 Family reserve. Going to crack it open tonight. Cheers everyone.

Wow I have not seen that. Very impressive. Disney has always been in the forefront of visual technology.

Beautiful ! I love projections on buildings. They have really improved the technology of it. I am amazed at the brightness and detail. This is so cool to see.

Happiest of Birthdays wished to you today. I hope your latest trip around the sun was a great one. Cheers to you on this special day as you turn the same age as me. Have a great celebration today!

It's a common issue with TV stations. They have a responsibility to alert people but sometimes they go overboard. I think some of it is a fear that if something horrific happened and people died others would say they were not alerted. Plus you have the fact that all the stations are competing with each other so no station wants to go back to regular programming first. All the stations want to be the last and also they want to appear that they are going wall to wall with coverage. Drives me nuts. I can't tell you how many live shots I had to do where there was nothing going on but the producers felt the coverage needed to be continued.

I'm not sure if we will drive again. 12 hours is a long time where as a couple of hours is nicer, not to mention dealing with traffic through Dallas and Houston.

Yes that was the infamous separated shoulder and fracture cruise I'm better. It aches from time to time. I have to be careful about movement sometimes but I'm improving. I think our parking was $120 and I think we had about 4 stops for gas going down.

How far is drive for you since you are south of us? It took us 12 hours but it was not bad at all. Looks good. I am going to try it. Can't decide for orange liqueur to use Grand Marnier or Cointreau?

I would love to see some video at some point, don't go out of your way. I'm just envious because I wish I could do that.

I would like to see video of you on the flow rider please.

@grapau27 Thinking about you today. Good luck.

Thank you Debbie. I remember when I was Jonathan's age I grew a beard to try it. It never filled in well enough to keep it. I did keep the mustache. I think I've had a mustache ever since I was in my early 20's. There is a very popular Italian restaurant in Kansas City called "Garozo's" and their meatballs are the size of tennis balls. I just adopted that size. To be honest I don't remember. I don't think my mom was a fan. I had the mustache since my early 20's. I have thought about shaving it off but I'm so used to having it I think I might look weird without it. Winner Winner. Love these especially the last one. I love the extreme closeups where you can see the detail in the ropes.

Looks Great! Quality is really good and very good audio. Santa was really good too! Thanks! Jonathan’s baby pictures and mine look almost identical. I’m surprised that my sauce doesn’t taste that greasy. I’m sure some of that meat fat adds some flavor. It’s not low calorie that’s for sure. I also make my meatballs big about the size of a tennis ball.

What worked for me was leaving the meatballs undisturbed for at least 30-45 minutes and then stirring very gently. After about an hour I could stir the sauce normally just making sure I stirred in between the meatballs. Thank you for the update. It makes me mad that insurance will not cover it as it has proven to give good results. She will be in my thoughts. I have never had Eggnog before. Now I might have to try. Cheers!

From Santa Suit to Tuxedo. Wedding last night for Linda's niece. Nice to have son Jonathan with us. Not sure I care for the beard but he is entitled to experiment.

I think most people do it that way. I'm an odd ball in that I cook the meatballs the entire time in the sauce. It makes for a little softer meatball but as it's cooking some little pieces of the meatball will break into the sauce almost making the sauce a meat sauce. Very delicious.

Looks delish! I cook mine all in the sauce. Do you fan fry first or let them cook entirely in the sauce? Wishing a successful procedure tomorrow Graham!

Charlie and Lizzy did not attend. Santa I think did well with everyone. Some children were a little shy. It was really cool looking them in the eyes. I could tell some of them had wonderment.

Wow what an honor and wonderful experience playing the role of Santa for my companies annual videotaping of Twas The Night Before Christmas read by our long time now retired anchor Larry Moore. We had over 40 children during the reading and then they were led to our garage area where I surprised them and gave out gift bags and they had cookies and hot chocolate. I'm proud that I was able to stay in character even though a lot of the staff knew who I was. I kept saying "Greg who?" I'm Santa. Here are some pics from last night's event. Santa with Charlie and Lizzy. Greeting the kids with my bell and some Ho, Ho. Ho's There's always one! And as I left I yelled ""Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!" and then muttered under my breath, "Elvis has left the building."

Ours has a wooden back where the green felt was glued on. Jewelry was hot glued on. This is ours.

Great job this is really beautiful. I rally like the frame too. I think jewelry trees look best in antique style frames.Beautiful placement of the jewelry too.