C.B.'s Zone...Is it interesting stuff or not? YOU be the judge

This is my Dad, Dean Burton on Thanksgiving Day. He is 81 years young and in good health. This year again, Jeff, my brother and Betsy, his partner bought Boston Market dinner, I provided the cold shrimp and crackers, and Dad provided the wine (Merlot). We our fannies off telling old stories. But one of the funniest parts of the day was the dessert part of the meal. Dad makes coffee and I serve up the blueberry pie. I drink my coffee with cream or milk and sugar, so I look in his fridge, and see no milk (he lives by himself) and has like 5 beers, some wine, and maybe a tub of butter in his fridge. Ok, so I ask, "do you have any milk"? He says "no", ok, I had enough wine at this point that I just could not stop laughing, as I put vanilla icecream in my coffee. So did Jeff and Betsy. He is the only one who drinks coffee black (as he is half Norwegien you see). Again, I could not stop laughing during dessert, but all was well. Next year, or at Christmas dinner, I'll bring the milk or Bailey's Irish Cream

This is a sport called Speed Stacking. More about this later. I discovered speed stacking or sometimes it's called cup stacking at this very conference I believe 8 or 9 years ago, at the time it was a small company founded by a man in the Denver, Colorado area. The concept here, is to develop right and left handedness by upstacking and downstacking specially designed cups with your left and right hands in opposition, thus crossing the midline of the body and working both sides of the brain. The sport has grown to thousands, maybe millions worldwide If you attend a speed stacking session, you receive a free bag of 12 cups. How many bags of 12 do you think I have I'm sure if anyone not familiar with this fasinating right-left-right-left, etc....phenomenon, can view a video clip of it on Youtube.

Here is part of my "Fish" collection located at my office If anyone out there is familiar with the Fish philosophy, you know, you cannot have too many fish to remind you to "be there, make their day, and be a team player especially when working with children who have special needs

It's always nice to have a little camp fire when doing outside work in 35-degree temps. Trying to do outside work and sneak in to watch a bit of the Ohio State at Illinois football game too