We had another one of those potluck dinners last night, this time at the Nadlers. There were too many people scattered through too many rooms for a group photo, so here’s a mini gallery . On the whole, (my apologies to Lorraine for the final frame) I think they’re pretty good candid images, but I did miss Mark Schreiber as he arrived just as everyone was leaving.

I love this video of Anita O’Day.

Here is a picture of me with Mohamed Yunus, winner of this years Nobel Peace prize for his Grameen Bank in Bangladesh getting poor people out of poverty. He is a real charmer.

Polly

(Polly is, among a zillion other things, a retired UUA minister and smiling dan’s mother-in-law)

And to show that I’m still able to pat myself on the back here is (in my opinion) just about the coolest birthday cake anyone could receive. I’ve got to give myself a stroke or two when something goes right, because my sneak delivery of seven pints of Graeter’s ice cream to Matt’s room at Temple didn’t work out so well. They arrived on a Saturday (promised on Friday) and sat in a locked mail office until the following Monday.

The photo is of Charlie and his dad on the Vineyard. To the right of the cake are links to Charlie’s Thanksgiving photos.

And to show that I’m still able to pat myself on the back here is (in my opinion) just about the coolest birthday cake anyone could receive. I’ve got to give myself a stroke or two when something goes right, because my sneak delivery of seven pints of Graeter’s ice cream to Matt’s room at Temple didn’t work out so well. They arrived on a Saturday (promised on Friday) and sat in a locked mail office until the following Monday.

The photo is of Charlie and his dad on the Vineyard. To the right of the cake are links to Charlie’s Thanksgiving photos.

Now that your only begotten son has chastised you publicly, seems you might have to work up some creativity for the blog. I’ve little to offer but the below and the attached (more focus failures … ). Now that their kids are going away to college, our across-the-street neighbors have decided that their rather-bigger-than-our-house was too … any guesses? big for empty nesters? Nope — too small. They’re tearing down a perfectly good house and building a bigger one (though modest by today’s McMansion standards — about 3500 sq. ft.). A few days ago this squat powerhouse came to be parked in their yard, and you can see what it’s good at. Alas, it didn’t occur to me to take a true “before” picture, so I started after Day One, when it had mostly had its way with the back yard. I’ll keep a bit of a log as the house goes, the hole gets dug, etc.

Adam