Jerry Loggins

I always enjoy watching animals playing, don’t you? Here’s a fun video!

My sister Janet’s birthday is next month, and I’ve been trying to figure out what to give her for a gift.  My wife tells me that Janet has been talking about wanting to get some Disney On Ice Tickets for Christmas, and she didn’t get them.  So maybe I’ll talk to her about getting them for her for her birthday.  I don’t want to buy them and then find out she had bought some herself too!

I found a good place to go online to get affordable tickets to just about any event you can imagine wanting to go to.  It is called acheapseat.com.  My friend Bob told me about it when he said he bought some cheap New York Knicks Tickets last year.  And I used it to buy some Los Angeles Lakers Tickets for a gift for my brother-in-law Tom when the Lakers were playing in town.  Tom is a big Lakers fan and he was deliriously happy when I gave him those tickets!  So now whenever I need tickets for something I check out their website first!

Well I hope your Christmas was filled with fun, friends, family, and food. We had a quiet Christmas this year. Money and the economy being what it is, we cut way back on our Christmas gifts. We had a big family gathering at our place though, and everyone brought some food to share. We had a good time sharing old family memories.

Thankfully everyone seemed to get along fine. With this family, you never know what is going to erupt when we all get together! I’m glad Christmas only comes once a year! I don’t think my poor wife could stand the stress if it came more often!

I’ve always been interested in history.  I like to watch the history channel and I like to read historical writings.  One of the things that interest me in history is how gold has always been considered a valuable commodity.  I’ve learned that are many uses for gold.  One use for gold  that most of us already are aware of is it’s use historically as money.  I never really understood why the United States stopped using the gold standard – it certainly made a lot of sense to me!

In addition to being used as money, gold has been used as adornments in home furnishings, architecture, and jewelry.  It is (was) used in dentistry to fill teeth, or even to replace teeth.  And from what I understand it can be used medically as a treatment for cancer, arthritis, and in transplant devices.  So even though the world no longer uses it as a base for it’s monetary system, it is still a very valuable metal!

I have to say that it has been a very long time since I’ve built a snowman. We just don’t get very much snow around here! Over the past several years I’ve seen other people’s attempts to make snowmen from the snow that we do get and it is rather sad to see because the snow is heavily dotted with twigs and grass clippings and just plain dirt scraped up from the ground.

Yesterday I went out to clear off the deck so the dogs could go in and out as needed through their doggie door. The temptation to build a snowman was intense. I picked up a handful of snow and it packed so nicely! I put it down on the snow and rolled it a little and before you knew it I had a snowman’s head in my hands. I gently put it down in the snow and looked at it for a minute. If I had the rest of the snowman’s accessories close at hand (nose, eyes, pipe) I’d have myself a really great snowman! But I don’t have anything I can reasonably use as eyes, so I just abandoned the idea. Maybe I’ll come across something over the next day or so that I can use. I don’t think that snow is going anywhere very soon! We sure got a lot of it!