Southwest flight over Texas, Dec 11

Landing at Houston Hobby airport

Zorka dishing out dinner

Watching TV, Dec 14

Emptying the gross dishwasher

Earring found in the gross dishwasher

Earrings cleaned up

Rob with Mickey hat

Warmink clock

Sun is low, making the good crystal shine

Fancy dish

Lamp globe

Pam & Karen arrive, Dec 15

KLM gin house from Pam

Zorka making crepes

You don't need fancy tools, just experience to make good crepes

Dishing out the crepes

Zorka joked that I had to eat 25 crepes. Close.

Eva in a dress Zorka made

Porte cochere at the Westin La Paloma

La Paloma resort has a lovely cactus Christmas tree out front

Cactus up close

More decorations inside La Paloma

Great view out the huge window

Gingerbread village

Gingerbread house

Succulents by the entrance

Bill inspecting various cactus

I like the wandering ground cactus

Mavis watching videos from Sean of his new dog Molly

Molly & Sean 2022

Molly & Sean 2022

Bill in a black NatGeo polo

First night of Hanukkah

Oldest Christmas tree in the house

Pam going through drawers of old photos

Reendeer cookie and Amicon mug

Rob and Bill on the first night of Hanukkah

Zorka made lemon pastries

Theatre lighting

Huge capacitors, bigger than a can of soda

Rock-Ola jukebox for $400

Huge wing flap for a 737

A steal for only $1,600

Airplane parts

Peruvian dinner for take-out

Rob talking to Mom on his watch

boring transport chair

Exciting transport chair

Christmas Eve morning

Morning sunshine makes the house look great

Plants say hello

Cactus with personality

cactus backlight

back

The frisky cactus says 'How you doin?'

Home

Hamburger, peas and salad for Christmas Eve dinner

Yarmulke on the Menorah

No one expected Mavis to make it to Christmas, but I spent all night wrapping empty boxes just in case.

Christmas tree

Christmas tree

Tree in the dark

Plasma globe for visual interest

Mavis smiling Christmas morning

Zorka made blueberry cream cheese pastry

Blueberry cream cheese pastry

Christmas and the Last night of Hanukkah

Ham dinner Christmas night

Crazy shopping at Dillards the day after Christmas

Karen and Audrey try to help Mavis

Good sunset

A cup Dad would like

Casserole night

Zorka heading out the door

May's tennis friend, Mary Jablonski, has long flowing hair. She came to visit on May's last day, Dec 30.

Dr. Osborne was very nice

Pasta dinner that night with Audrey

Audrey opened her book light present from my Dad

Audrey blinded herself

Went out for Peruvian dinner, Dec 26

My multi-colored cocktail

I made pina coladas when we got home. An appropriate use of paper umbrellas.

Karen and Pam help pack up the primary bedroom. Karen was shoked at the number of gun holsters and knives.

Bill will take care of the gun from the safe in the night stand

On Jan 3rd, we met with East Lawn Palms to review the funeral plans.

The funeral director is a Lego fan, and put together a model of their new family plot to be built soon.

Went to Blue Willow for lunch

I had the Nutella french toast with strawberries

After lunch, we went to Bead Holiday so Karen could buy things for her mosaic projects.

Karen going crazy for beads

Collection of red beads at Bead Holiday

Bill and Karen checking out the inventory at Bead Holiday

Zorka dining room and kitchen

I made the giant red paper rose for Zorka before she started in Oct

Zorka bedroom

Zorka salon

Zorka guest room 1

Zorka guest room 2

It took Zorka 5 years to make this large cross-stitch

Zorka living room sofa

We brought the candlabra for Zorka

That night we had leftovers for dinner

Mavis funeral was held on Jan 4th

While Karen was speaking, a red-breasted bird came to listen

The bird listened to Pam speak as well

The red-breasted bird

Alan Leffler placing a stone on the stone

Other mourners placed stones as well

Bill and I returned later in the day to get sun on the flowers

Sun on a lovely arrangement

Bill and Mavis Blatt

The bright bird visited us again

Steve and Clint sent flowers

David Blatt and Bria sent flowers

Karen, Bill, Pam sunset

Bill and Rob at sunset

Gold Japanese inspired dress with matching wrap by Grandma Clara Blatt

Karen trying on all the jewelry at once

Ten Gallon Rob

Moonrise at 8x speed

Selma and Denise are our real estate agents (I might have modified their photo)