Evening with Neil.

Thanks to Kim, Brian, Mike, & Kristine, we were lucky enough to have floor seats at the Bradley Center Monday to hear Neil Diamond in concert. They bought us tickets for our anniversary.


We almost had our camera taken away twice so we really didn't have time to focus or aim.

He indeed looked quite fine for a man of 67!

It was a great show with great seats. Thanks, family!

First snowfall of the season.

Woke up this morning to a nearly 4 inch snowfall. It's amazing how quickly our autumnal environment changed to a winter wonderland! I went out to our yard and snapped away..

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Friday night at the game.

Friday night four of us decided to go to a Bucks game. They were playing the NY Knicks so we figured it would be a good game...and that it was.


The half-time entertainment turned out to be almost more fun to watch than the game! This woman was from San Francisco and managed to balance 20 bowls on her head after flipping them off her foot and riding a unicycle all at the same time. She was amazing!

This 'guy' rides on a blimp and while hovering the crowd, drops t-shirts and gifts to the lucky fans who can catch them.

After four quarters of watching all the goings on, the Bucks did declare a victory! It was really an entertaining evening!

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Terry Fator & Friends

We were fortunate enough to get tickets to a sell-out crowd in Waukegan's Genesee Theatre on Saturday night to see Terry Fator.


The winner of 2007 "America's Got Talent," he isn't your average ventriloquist. Terry Fator has an incredible voice, is very funny, and does impersonations of many celebrities. He does all this while having the ability to mimic famous singers.

He pretty much blew the audience away with his amazing talent!

Terry Fator has indeed created a new genre of ventriloquism.

He is headlining in Vegas on Feb. 14th. Guess who wants to see his opening night performance?

Brunch at Mike & Kristine

Sunday afternoon we were invited to Mike and Kristine's place for a lovely brunch. Got an official tour of their place and couldn't resist taking a picture of just a "fraction" of Mike's bobble head collection!

Here is Mike with his favorite feline friend, Tiger.

It was so nice visiting with Kristine's parents. It's been a long time since we've seen them. It was a really relaxing afternoon. Good eats and good conversation!

The Lucky Strikes

Our friends, Jim & Kathi talked us into joining a couples bowling league after 20 years of being away from the sport. Kathi didn't have a bowling ball of her own so I searched and found this one in the basement. If you look real close you can see that the name on it is KIM. Yes, this was Kim's ball used in 1982 when she was in a junior league! She only needed to have the holes drilled a bit and now she uses it with no problem!


Here Kathi is getting ready to roll! She decided to keep the name on. So she goes by Kim at the alleys!

Getting ready for Winter

This past week has been a series of spectacular weather! After getting in a round of golf on Monday and Tuesday, we finished cleaning up the yard and getting it ready fpr Winter. I spotted this guy hoarding his corn thinking he is going to remember where he buried it.




Our yard is filled with ornamental grasses which now are filled with brilliant color. Fall is truly my favorite season!

Pictionary party.

Saturday night we hosted a Pictionary party inviting ten of our friends. The game always manages to bring on lots of laughs.

Here is our friend, Jim, trying to get a point across to someone..anyone!

And then there is Bob. He doesn't understand that he only has One Minute to draw his word.

This is Jim's team looking totally perplexed on the Jim's "thoughts on paper." The evening brought on plenty of giggles and all seemed to have a good time.