Mid-Winter Update

The blog’s been quiet for a while and, now that we’ve passed Valentine’s Day, it time for an update.

• We had a pretty good Valentine’s Day at Ooma’s Cookie Jar. We met a lot of new people and sold a lot of pastries. V-day was good last year, too.
• Lee is recovering from minor eye surgery. She said that at the Eye Clinic, they called her “the baby” because she was the youngest of the patients, by far, having this type of procedure done during the day. A couple of the medical folks recognized her. One said, “Hey, aren’t you the one with the bakery in Spencer?” …and the other said, “Didn’t I see you on Phantom Gourmet?”
• Patrick and Art have entered into a month long project called Thing-A-Day. It’s where you are challenged to come up with, and post, something creative each day during February. You can see all the TAD’s at the main site or you can check their individual efforts here: Art’s Eyecup pageor Patrick’s Mojogoing page.
• Casey started Project 52. This is similar to Thing-A-Day, but is weekly and lasts a year (52 weeks, hence the name).
• One side benefit of trying to sell a house is that it’s always clean because you’re never sure when a prospect will want to see it. We like having a clean house all the time.
• Sales of Casey’s music CD, “Really, I Can’t Sing” are doing about as expected. Zero. That’s because it ‘s not something that was never intended to be sold. In fact, the original mission was to simply make a permanent recording of last year’s musical projects. It’s easy to forget songs if you don’t write them down; it’s easier to just record them. Casey’s working on a new batch of songs for 2010. Maybe there’ll be a Can’t Sing 2 sometime in the future.

Between Weeks

Casey has some photos and stories about his visit to New Jersey in his personal blog. Check it out.

Kaycie Says

Maybe it’s because she’s family, but we gotta say, the kid is funny. Take a click-trip to read about some of her wisdom.

Can You Say Happy Holidays?

Kaycie is having way too much fun.

OK, it’s always fun during the holidays because, let’s face it, families belong together and children and their smiles are the glue that holds us all together. See more pictures on Big Casey’s Picasa site. Or, check out these photos that Bob Milewski took at our Christmas Party on the 13th.

This Can Happen To U2

Jen and Patrick made the rounds of the U2 concerts in the area. Two in Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, and one at Giant Stadium in New Jersey. All within a single week. They had VIP tickets for the last concert and hung around the area where the band would arrive. Sure enough, Bono got out of the car, came around the corner, and for two minutes, greeted fans. Patrick caught it all on video and pulled this still out. The brown hair in the foreground is Jen’s and we can only imagine the smile on her face at the moment.

Click here to see the video.

Congratulations to Chris and Karen

Click image to view a web gallery and slide show page...photo by Art Danek

July 18: It was a wonderful weekend for a wedding and, for sure, a couple wonderful people took advantage of that exact thing. This year’s weather pattern has had cool nights and comfortable days, but there have been some afternoon thunder showers teasing everyone for the few days before. Karen and Chris hit the jackpot, however. The storms decided to visit in the early morning hours and left the rest of the day perfect – picture perfect. Speaking of picture perfect, Art, Jeanne, Caz, and Patrick did the heavy lifting with photo and video services. It looked like a movie set. There were lots of other cameras in use, too, so Chris and Karen will have a lot of images to remember the day.

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