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Dec 3rd: Down from the attic came all the the goodies to “Deck The Halls”Now the fun begins. Anita is hard at work decorating the house for gatherings and people hopefully stopping by. Pretty much throughout our flying lives we very rarely decorated and being we usually are not around the house all the time this time of year. We neglected to do much house decoration. This could be FUN
Dec 4th: A fun morning sunrise. The air is clear and as in the seen in the slidshow pic. You can see Venus in the upper right of the picture.
Dec 11th: Wow how the week has flown by. Anita has been very busy preparing chez DeLeo for the up coming weeks of guests. This morning I broke away and did the Seattle Motorcycle Show. This evening we were pleasantly surprised by a visit from Kathryn Flanagan. She brought smiles and one of here fine calendars with a sampling of her art work. Shortly after she headed on her way. Bob Hesse arrived for some Christmas cheer and some GREAT soup that Anita had prepared. Looks like tomorrow is a day of rest. Monday evening our neighbors Dave and Patti Page are coming over for our annual get together before they head off to their den in Sun Valley for their winter hibernation.
Dec 13: Had Dave and Pati Page over for snacks and drinks.
Dec 14: Had to check out Snoqualmie Falls with all the major record breaking rainfall. Well it was as expected!! The good news was there were hardly any people there checking it out. The bad news was it was pouring, But it was a well worthy adventure and something that I have always wanted to do.
Dore and Judy Cross time GREAT evening spent with Dore and Judy. After a Steak Tommy dinner. We sat around the fireplace and visited for hours.
Dec 15: The morning started out with a THUMP or should I say thumping. With all the record breaking rain the lake has shot up way too much and the boat on its track is only about 6in out of the water. The problem arises when all the crap that flots off other people’s beaches gets redistributed and our bulked seems to trap more than our share. Anyway around 1 am. Anita and I were waken to the sound of a drum. “Could it be the Christmas Drummer Boy?” NO WAY
It was a log wedged under the boat and banging on the hull. So it was time to don my led headlight and bathing suit and venture into the cold dark water and dislodge the pesky log. Got Er Done!! Hopefully the water will start to recede and my boat worries will go away for another day. Today’s big plan is to start heading the crap around the bulked so it can continue on it’s merry way to find a new home. There is one good thing about this annual crap migration. I do always find some treasures. Be it a good timber or two or as I spotted this morning a nice new dock bumper that will find a happy home on our dock. Anyone need a ball? We always get a great selection of those
Dec 17: Chuns for dinner
Spent the day preparing for the evenings event. Oh yes I did have to rebuild one of my laptops that went south
But after a bunch of tweaking and tinkering. All is well! In fact I am blogging from that laptop now. 
Everett, Barbra & Molly arrived around 4:30 followed by Ann Denhart around 5 . Molly is Barbara’s 92 year old mother. Who is visiting from Australia. “What an inspiration” She travels from northern Australia to Sydney. Then off to San Fran, Then to Seattle. All on space available flying. Now that is something to admire!! After some great gabbing it was time to hit the kitchen and get the dinner underway. Everything turned out great. Not to mention Barbara’s “To Die For” desert. Thanks All for attending.
Dec 18: Steph and Tony were good
enough to come over for dinner after arriving home from Hawaii at 6 this morning. Had some great visiting. The normal Tony and Tommy talking tech (guy stuff)” and Steph and Anita talking ??? lady stuff. Oh yes we did have a lot of four way conversation also
Dec 19: DeLeo family dinner
Larry Sowder, Tom DeLeo, Adam DeLeo, Jason Holman, Brooke Holman, Bill DeLeo, John DeLeo, Robin DeLeo, & Anita DeLeo
Wow the Whole DeLeo Family ALL in One Place!!
The Big gathering for our little house went off without a hitch
Dec 22: Its Schuler Wednesday already. 
The floors are freshly sucked and polished. And the dinner is almost ready Had a long overdue visit with Jim and Bet.
Dec 23: Ahhh! Break in the holiday action. After five dinners this is a well needed break Today We Are officially 
for a day….
Dec 24: Friday Morning off to Portland for our annual Christmas Eve and Christmas with the Steve Zimmer family. We or at least Anita has been making this event for at least the last 25years. I had to miss a few due to prior United Airline obligations. Had a great drive to Portland, Speed limit all the way. We were also entertained by horse trailer transporting a camel. Boy do camels look stupid. Big time!! Anita could not stop laughing every time we got to the camel.
Sort of hung out at Steve’s Then headed over to Ron & Cali’s (Liz’s sister) for desert and the Dresser family Christmas.
Dec 25th: Christmas Day!! Well the big day is upon us. It’s still Tommy time. The stockings are hung and everyone else are still sound asleep dreaming of sugar plum fairies or whatever. My 
is hot the fire is warm and things are quiet. Life does not get much better
Oh yes. The first present has arrived in the form of a wee 
named Bella. I think Liz and Steve are trying to impose a sense of responsibility on Steph and Tony. I am sure they will be up for the challenge
Dec 26th: Time to point the trusty Rav4 North. And say goodbye to our hosts Steve and Liz. Good drive home. Never came to complete stop. The normal slowdowns. Centralia, Olympia and Tacoma. But all in all a good ride.
Dec 29th: On our way to finish out 2010 at Mary’s. Left Bellevue and it was starting to snow. And it contiued snowing all the way to Cle Elum. Then was clear and the roads were dry until about 40mi out of Spokane and then it started snowing again, By the time we arrived at Mary’s it was a winter wonderland just as I had Hoped
 |  | Bellevue Snoqulamie |
 |  | Cle Elum Entering Spokane |
 |  | almost Mary’s Mary’s Street |
Here we are at Chez Frey
Dec 30th: Good Morning Spokane
A beautiful fresh snowy morning. Got up around 5:30 and waited for mornings light. Oh Oh here comes the 
I had better get out and see if I can get a picture or two. The highlight of the day was. Isabel and I jumped into the car and headed down to Riverside State Park to check out the Spokane river. There certinly was no disappointment in that little adventure. The roads and some of the paths had been plowed, There were a few other people taking in this winter wonderland. All of which were also filled with ahh. Later our friends Fran and Barb Burkhard stopped by for a visit.
Oh Ya. Watched the Dawgs beat the Huskers in the Holiday bowl 
Dec 31st: The last day of 2010. 
What a way to end the year COLD!!! Started the day with a quick trip for some drip from Starbucks. And some sign of life. I do have to admit I totally love this time of day Summer or Winter. Just think I have the day all to myself with no interruptions. “Hot , A warm fire ,and a whole day ahead to enjoy” Life just can’t get better than that!!
While Anita and Mary got their last minute 2010 shopping in. Isabel and I took a wonderful drive up to Mt. Spokane and checked out the real winter wonderland.
We finished up the year with a Filet Mingion dinner at Chez Frey
Jan 1 st 2011: Bring The Adventure On!!!
I Can only predict it’s Gong to be GREAT. You all invited to share out ride thru life with Anita and Tommy’s Adventures
