update

Well, here's an update on our sweet little boy. While Phyllis was here last week, he learned how to put the stacking rings on his stacker toy. He can walk with a push toy. He is getting more socially interactive and vocalizing more. He can pull to stand and cruise around his crib. We are still waiting on first words and first steps.

new year's resolution

Seeing as there are only 11 months left in the year, it's time for a new year's resolution. I will work out more. That should be easy, as I think I worked out twice between July and December. So once a month would do it. Hopefully more, since we now have a treadmill.

snow

industrial ruins

I drive by this abandoned factory on the way to work. It is somewhat melancholy, dark at night. But I like to look at it. There is a large clock face above one of the Broadway entrances, frozen in time. I can imagine workers rushing in, to beat the clock, and put in a full day doing one repetitive task all day, every day, for decades. The factory is the former Gates Rubber Company. One of the main buildings was built in 1917. The factory was closed in the 1970s. It is a reminder of times when things were actually made in America.

favorite things

christmas

merry christmas!