Just wanted to take the opportunity to wish you all a happy New Year!

And to show you this card trick.

Amazing!

James Galea (Card Trick) Comedy Festival Gala 2009

Everyone have a safe and happy New Year's Eve.

See you next year!!!!!

LOOKING BACK ON A YEAR OF GOOD EATS!

Enjoy the visual!

Baked pork chops and gravy

Shrimp fried rice

Grilled chops

Beer can chicken

Ribeyes, hand cut fries, and cheese bread

Navy bean soup with picnic ham

Secret recipe hot dog sauce

Chorizo sausage and sweet potato fries

Shrimp macaroni salad

Fruit salad - made by Mrs. Buddly

Surf and turf - 39th anniversary

Blue cheese burgers

Grilled madium rare T-bones

Medium rare ribeyes

More beer up the butt chicken, just cause they're so damn good

Grilled pork loin with Carolina mustard sauce

The big beefy baguette sammich

Crockpot beef stew

Cornbread

The way it's supposed to be made, in an iron skillet

Three bean chili with habanero peppers

Spoon bread

My favorite cookbook

Fried chops with spoon bread and asparagus 

My favorite oxymoron, jumbo shrimp

Potato puffs with Sweet Baby Ray's sauces (Mrs. B)

Thanksgiving Day turkey (Mrs. B), but carved intact by Buddly

What did you expect from Buddly Crocker?

Page 3 girls?

Christmas 2010 has came and went.

The tree is now empty and barren of gifts.

The remains of the day are ready to be hauled of to the dumpster at work tomorrow.

It was a white Christmas, and most of the white still lingers.

As Christmases go, it was a pretty good one.

Went over to Karen's mom's house Friday evening for the annual Blevins Christmas Eve party. Had a nice dinner, everyone exchanged presents, and I managed to get the heat turned down a bit so nobody passed out from heat stroke this year.

On Christmas Day all the kids and grandkids and their boyfriends and girlfriends came over for our annual Christmas Day Brunch around eleven. We had a full house for a couple of hours and we managed to polish off around 3 dozen scrambled eggs, 48 link sausages, a pound of bacon, 48 assorted orange danish and caramel rolls, 3 pounds of steamed shrimp, and a gallon each of orange juice and eggnog.

We usually host a big dinner on Christmas for all of them, but decided not to this year. Put a nice beef roast in the crockpot that morning and had a dinner for just the two of us that evening. Guess I'll make roast beef hash and have a little leftover macaroni and tomatoes later today for dinner.

Karen loves the little Toasty Toes heated footrest I got her for her computer desk.

Uses about the power of a 100 watt light bulb and really does keep your feet and legs toasty warm on these cold mornings.

She got me some cookware of my own and an electric hotplate to take to work! Great! Some things I take in my lunch just don't warm up well in the microwave. I think I have an small unused black metal table in the office that I can move into the breakroom to put that all on. Downside is Johnny will be expecting me to cook for him all the time.

The ranks of the Nutcracker horde expanded by seven.

Karen's sister Sylvia got me this nice UK blue wine bottle nitelite.

I love it!

I think it's actually an ornament, but we gave Matt and Cassie the white tree this year. I kept all the UK ornaments tho, so who knows, may do a Kentucky themed tree again one year.

Til then, it makes a darn good nitelite!

So, how was your Christmas?

Secretly glad, like me, that's it's over til next year?

Next weekend will be New Years Eve and New Years Day.

2011.

Hard to believe, seems just yesterday everyone was worried about the Y2K bug!

Bring it on.

I think I'm ready for a new year.

My least favorite time of year. In spite of the fact that my birthday and Christmas are rapidly approaching. Or maybe because of them. Not getting any younger, ya know.

Had three inches of dry powder this morning and it's still snowing. Thankfully, the 25 to 30 mph winds are blowing it all around so it's not real deep. Yet.

 Wind chill is about 5 degrees. BRRRRR!!!!!!

Actual temp is supposed to be 6 Wednesday morning. Can't wait!

You can see a little asphalt and concrete here and there, so we didn't have to put chains on the yard truck to get around. Slowly.

Trailers are so much fun to move around and work on in this kinda stuff!

Probably should update a little. It's been awhile!

Thanksgiving came and went.

And, it was good.

We did get the tree up last week.

Ok, actually Karen did it while I was at work.

I think she did a great job!

She also got her Nutcrackers set out. Says she has 42 but wants an even 100. Oy, that's a lot of Nutcrackers!

Also on the not-so-brightside, gas is over three dollars a gallon again.

Here's a little something I wrote when it got so high the last time.

Winter's sneaking in on frostbitten feet

Not looking forward to turning on heat

Surely it seems my gas bill's outrageous

And on every front, price gouging's contagious

Starting to hate these either/or choices

 Nagging at me in mean little voices

Why do these needs have to compete

Stay warm......buy beer...... pump gas......or eat?

The very first public announcement of the death of John Lennon was made by Howard Cosell during the last few seconds of  Monday Night Football on Dec. 8th 1980.

I was watching this game and when I heard the news about John I switched the radio on to follow the story. I had completely forgotten about that til a friend posted this on Facebook.

30 years is a long time!

RIP John, and thanks for the memories.