Christmas 2007

Christmas 2007 started in Kansas with hand-made puppets crafted by Becky and given as gifts to some of her younger relatives. It proceeded on to California, and a San Francisco 49ers game, then to Stephen’s birthday at Grand Taipei, and finally to Christmas day at Stephen and Kathie’s place. Some photos have been uploaded to Chappell Famly Picasaweb. Clicking on the thumbnail picture shown here will take you to the Christmas 2007 Album at Chappell Famly Picasaweb.

Iced Kansas

They predicted we’d get an ice coating on everything at least an inch think, resulting in major disaster. In our general area, however, the temperature somehow stayed one or two degrees higher than predicted. So, what we got was an ice coating that was very pretty but not very disastrous. Down in Oklahoma, on the other hand, the story was quite different; and north and east of us there were a lot of power outages. Today the sun came out and the ice melted off of everything in about an hour. During that window, however, I was driving Becky home after her colonoscopy, and stopped to take some photos. Even as I did, huge chunks of ice were dropping from high limbs and wires. Anybody interested can check out a set of the pics at the famly picasaweb.

Man, it’s almost Christmas!