Odds 'n Year Ends

Answering all the comments posted daily to this blog is stealing too much time and creative energy from my annual artistic extravaganza - the Mohr Xmas Newsletter and Advice Column. So the blog is taking a vacation - I'm emailing it to Bermuda, where it can sit comfortably in a speedo laptop under a beach umbrella and sip virtual Coronas (no lime, please - this is a manly, not wimp/yuppie, blog). It will return when there are some new significant wanderings to report. However, I'll have it summarize the last month or so before it packs to go....

The Sedona adventure was completed satisfactorily, albeit without much in the way of bird photo ops - the raptors were yet to arrive. A couple of weeks after our return, we took off for Glenview, IL for Thanksgiving with the (old) Glenview Mohrs, the (new) Glenview Mohrs, and the rest of the kids, kids-in-law, and grandkids (of which there are two more than last thanksgiving). I'll probably post a few pictures, eventually, but most will be repeats of what superblogger Cori has already put in hers - see the pictures at http://midwestmohrs.blogspot.com/ and in her Picasa photo album.
For the third year, the winter drive to/from Chicago met with mild weather, which means either we're very lucky or Al Gore understated the situation. We stopped on the way there to visit with some UW friends - Mike and Paula Bunch in Prarie du Sac WI - and with sister-in-law Joyce Powell in Iowa on the way back.

Well, gotta get the blog emailed on the next packet to Bermuda, so enjoy the holidays, and don't put lime wedges in your Coronas.