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Saturday, December 31. 2005

Hogmanay

This is Hogmanay Day!!

Hogmanay: the name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year.

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Wednesday, December 28. 2005

Girl next door

...literally next door, as in the room next to mine.

Almendra seams to have cought the blogging feaver. Lets see is it's a bad case.

Alme & Nina's (her lil' sis) blog: http://ninars-alme.blogspot.com/

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Tuesday, December 27. 2005

Snowballs illegal

US mayor to overturn snowball ban

Source: BBC

A Kansas mayor has said he will repeal a "dumb" city regulation banning the throwing of snowballs - shortly after inadvertently breaking it himself.

Bill Bunten, mayor of Kansas' capital, Topeka, found out about the rule after a high school student wrote to him.

He replied confessing he had recently hurled a snowball himself, and said he would ask for the law to be revised.

Under the code, anyone caught throwing a snowball in public can be fined up to $499 (£290) and jailed for 179 days.
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Monday, December 26. 2005

Christmas Dinner

Getting ready to dig in!!

So, Christmas came and went. In the week before, we took the kids to the neighboors to carol and give Chrismas cards and cookies. We had our dinner on the evening of the 25th, and afterwords, passed out the presents.