After January Freeze

 When the freeze passed, we were able to go to visit Happy Place again.

Happy New Year

Those guys came to us from Japan last October - a gift from Friends. The two ones were too cute to eat them so they lasted for quite a while. The cookies are gone, though.

Happy New Year! May it be Bobo good and peaceful.

Progresso Soups

We have tried quite a few soup brands and we finally decided the soups made by Progresso are the best. They taste like home made, which gives us a quick and rather inexpensive emergency-type meal. The soups by Progresso does not need extra fixing, but I still season them a bit, in my way.

We still haven't tasted all the soup kinds they make, we still have our favorite ones, though. The lentils soup is especially good when served with fresh corn bread.

Merry Christmas From Bobos

 

From Our Happy Place

Christmas Forest

 Our Christmas Forest.

Baby Jesus and a little shepherdess arrived yesterday.

Rudi

He came to Texas from Chicago. It was a gift from a granddaughter to her ailing grandpa.

Years later, we saw the bear for a very first time when a lady (grandpa's wife) brought Rudi for our church game. The bear was to be one of the bingo prizes and its name was different then. 

We very much wanted to win him but another lady (of German descent) did, and took the guy home. We believed he was gone and we would never see him again.

Later, the lady who originally owned Rudi found out, the bingo winner had knitted him a costume and put the bear on sale at the Lutheran Fall Festival. Nobody bought him there so its original owner, grandpa's wife, got it back and brought to us. We named the bear Rudi and gave him the red hat to complete his German-like outfit. He is a great hugger and home Bobo protector.

Our newest Bobo

It appeared our Rudi wanted to come to us and be part of our family. Yey!

New Guy

A New Guy in the family. No, it's not our bike. Harley has been history already.

It seems, I missed posting a note about that Harley, the predecessor.

 UPDATE: 

The old one that is gone now.

Polish Fruit Cake

I am not sure whether I have tried that particular recipe before. Polish fruitcake is nothing like the Texas dessert which includes the same "fruitcake" name. It is simply a sort of coffee cake with lots of raisins, nuts, and fruits.

May Walks

Walk #1

Walk #2

Walk #3

Walk #4

Lemon Bar

Made for the first time.

April Walks

Nothing was going on here (due to the town shutdown) in April so we walked when we could. And, yes, there are beautiful places to walk here. Pretty landscapes and clean air. All so enjoyable!

What you cannot see/hear in the pictures: butterflies flying around, tiny lizards appearing here and there, birds chirping, crickets playing their music, and the refreshing feel of the wind on our bodies.

Walk #1

Actually, it was more of a drive than a walk.

Walk #2

 

Walk #3

 

Walk #4

 

Walk #5

 

Walk #6

 

Walk #7

Look whom we met!

 

 

Walk #8

 

Walk #9

 

Walk #10

 

Walk #11

 

Walk #12

Drawing at The Museum

#10

picture by Ron, drawn years ago.

January Log

January was much quieter than December. We could rest but stayed rather busy at the same time.

6 January
 
About 200 Saints (their relics) including our favorite ones visited our town. That was the relics collection that came to us from the Vatican.

Polish Saints whom we "met" there

Faustyna Kowalska
John Paul II
Maximilian Maria Kolbe
Satnislaus Papczyński
11 Martyrs of Novogrudek

19 January

Classical and popular music - concert

Our January walks - there were quite a lot of nice days on which we enjoyed walking.

December Log

 1 Dec. Advent Concert

6 Dec. Parade of Lights in the town

 

7 Dec.  Christmas with Texas Rangers

7 Dec. Nativity Scenes Display

13 Dec. Journey to Bethlehem - live Bible scenes regarding the birth of Christ

14 Dec. Singing Christmas Tree - Christmas Carols and Other Songs Concert

18 Dec. Church Walk - quite a few Christian churches involved

Our December Walks

23 Dec. Christmas Lights in Johnson City

24 Dec.

26 Dec. Second Day of Christmas "Zweiter Weihnachten" - second day of Christmas with German Heritage group. Finally, some good Polish like Christmas cookies and log cake + hot wine - although they called them German.

31 Dec. New Year's Eve of course


+ more a few events not described here.