Vonnahme family blog

We played and sang the traditional carol “The Friendly Beasts” at our church’s Christmas Eve service, and we hope you enjoy this video (3′24, 7.5 Mb).

This is from last week when we were in Oregon:

Now. I’ll be the princess, you’ll be the unicorn, and Beren will be the knight. There will be a dragon, and Beren will have a BIG sled. And when the dragon comes he will HIT him with the sled and he will sleigh him…

—Lily

No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter. All are sleepy—some actually asleep. All are weather-bound, more or less; and all are resting from arduous days and nights, during which every muscle in them has been severely tested, and every energy kept at full stretch.

“Very well then!” continued the Badger. “But, when once the year has really turned, and the nights are shorter, and half-way through them one rouses and feels fidgety and wanting to be up and doing by sunrise, if not before—you know!——”

Both animals nodded gravely. They knew!

“Well, then,” went on the Badger, “we—that is, you and me and our friend the Mole here—we’ll take Toad seriously in hand. We’ll stand no nonsense whatever. We’ll bring him back to reason, by force if need be. We’ll make him be a sensible Toad. We’ll—you’re asleep, Rat!”

“Not me!” said th Rat, waking up with a jerk.

“He’s been asleep two or three times since supper,” said the Mole, laughing.

—The Wind in the Willows, ch. 4

THE FAIRBANKS CLIMATE NORMALS FOR TOMORROW
                         NORMAL    RECORD    YEAR
 MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE (F)    2        41      1985
 MINIMUM TEMPERATURE (F)  -16       -49      1961                    

SUNRISE AND SUNSET
DECEMBER 20 2006..........SUNRISE  1059 AM AST   SUNSET   241 PM AST
DECEMBER 21 2006..........SUNRISE  1059 AM AST   SUNSET   241 PM AST

&&
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AVAILABLE DAYLIGHT

AMOUNT OF DAYLIGHT TODAY  (HOUR:MIN)........3:42
LOSS SINCE YESTERDAY........................1 MINUTE
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Source: Noaa.gov

most of October we spent replacing the right head gasket on the 4 runner. Also got a new power steering pump.

The oil was changed at the end of it. I changed oil in both cars earlier in the summer but I don’t remember the date. I’m so behind on my notes.

I think I’ll move the ‘maintenance’ notes to my new geek blog… WordPress is the new spiral notebook. Only I never actually wrote in spiral notebooks or any sort of journal for as long or consistently as I’ve been using WordPress, especially at work..