Merry Christmas !

Merry Christmas from Newton Lake PA. Santa made his annual appearence last night and he brought the girls bunk beds. They were quite surprised.

Here are two short videos of the girls on Christmas morning.

Video 1 and Video 2

The Cookies are Here !

Marion had two assistants tonight to help her making her Christmas cookies.

Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson ) visits Scranton

Not since JFK visited Scranton in 1960 has there been this much hoopla in the City of Scranton. Today, one of Dunder Mifflin's finest, Dwight Schrute visited the city and thousands of people waited hours to see him. From a young boy growing up on beet farm to walking the Red Carpet at the Emmys, and now Scranton, it seems this man has really made it. What's next ... maybe he'll be the first actor to walk on the moon. In all seriousness... it seems like Mr. Wilson really made an effort to show the people here he appreciates all the support the show gets from the area.

Here are some links to photos,video and an article related to his visit.
Photos 1
Photos 2
Video 1
Video 2

Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees

Well ... after a long wait ...and zero creativity. The new name for the Yankees AAA team will be the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Yankees.

Kudos to the staff for the painstaking effort to come up with such an original name.

Still happy the Yanks are here, just disappointed in such a lackluster effort to distinguish this team from the parent team in NY. However the after the great "Lackawanna Wonderful" ad campaign I guess I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up.

My pick was the Scranton / Wilkes-Barre Bombers .

End of Deer Season 2006

Deer season ended today without a bang ... at least without a bang from my gun. I saw nine more doe today and one buck, but I couldn't tell how many antlers he had so I couldn't shoot. We'll try again after Christmas with our muzzleloaders. Maybe we'll have more luck !

In search of the perfect Christmas Tree !

Tonight the Sokoloski's and Yurgosky's made their annual trek to find the perfect christmas tree. In keeping up with tradition ... we failed.

Regardless ... the kids had a great time.

First Snow of the Winter !

Had our first snow of the year today, and it looks like I'll have some help shoveling the driveway this year.