Look! Its Dad! And a train cake... What a surprise... |
Dad didn't try to link all the photos together to make a GIF - You'll have to imagine him building up to blow out the candle... |
The first presents photo... see all the stuff for actually building the model he got for Christmas on the table... |
And here is the second photo with the stuff from me (and Tanto...) |
I don't have any explanation for this... I yam what I yam... |
There is a reason that Dad is not a professional cake decorator... but it tastes good! |
You can almost make out Aunt Maggie participating in the present opening... |
And here is another outfit... At least Dad didn't take pictures while Mom was changing! |
Buttercup was hoping for something... that something wasn't getting her photo taken... |
We couldn't get through Mom's birthday without the product placement photo... |
And we're 0.8486% of the way through the 2020s already! (Not to be confused with being 8.47% of the way through 2020 already...)
As noted, not that much has really happened in Oregon (or at least not that much that Dad could get pictures of anyway) but we've already had the NHL Winter Classic in Dallas (because when you think af ice hockey you think of Dallas), the Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia (congratulations to our own Ricky Brabec who won - completing the course in 40 hours, 2 minutes and 36 seconds and our sympathies to the family of Dutch biker Edwin Staver who died as a result of his injuries in stage 11 on 1/16), the international consumer electronics show in Las Vegas, the Jaipur Kite Festival in India, most of the Australian Open (in, where else... Australia), the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, the Chinese New Year (in... Japan!... no - in China, of course), the beginning of the Sapporo Snow Festival (which is in Japan), and the end of the Dubai Shopping Festival (which ran from December 26th to January 26th... which seems a little excessive if you ask me...)
Anyway... that doesn't even cover the impeachment, the corona virus, the helicopter crash, or the florida man that tried to extort a car dealership for money and a car and got caught and then tried to impersonate the prosecuter and decline to file charges against himself only to get caught at that too and now faces seven addtional felony charges... oddly impersonating a prosecutor is a second degree felony while impersonating a state attorney is only a third degree felony...
Clearly I don't have anything exciting to cover for this month, so I'll let you be on your way without a single thought about how much work it is each year when I have to fix everything to restart in January... You just enjoy the few pictures that are here and I'll try to come up with something more exciting for February (even though there is only 93.5% as much time as January (and that is with the extra day!))