First Night Ice Carver #1



South Allen Street ~ State College, PA

Apartment Parking



Bryce Jordan Tower ~ Calder Way, State College, PA

Toys for Tots



West College Ave. ~ State College, PA

Amsterdam Brewery Retail Store



21 Bathurst Street ~ Toronto, Ontario

Not a Creature was Stirring...



Taken on my annual Christmas Day ride through downtown. Just like on Thanksgiving (link), the streets of State College are empty.

Beaver Ave. and South Allen ~ State College, PA

Gift Adventure


I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

Corner of Pugh St. and Beaver Ave. ~ State College, PA

City Christmas Lights



Sidewalk Lights ~ Toronto, Ontario

Winter Solstice



Last Night's 'Full Moon Party' at Todd & Margie's ~ Pugh Street, State College, PA

4 Days Until Christmas



Christmas House ~ Allegheny Street, Bellefonte, PA

Lobby Christmas Tree



Queen's Quay ~ Toronto, Ontario

Painter and Ladder



Millennium Science Complex ~ Penn State Campus

Woman and Snow



Corner of Beaver Ave. & S. Allen St. ~ State College, PA

Blue Loop



College Ave ~ State College, PA

Mock Crime Scene



Spruce Cottage ~ Penn State Campus

City FIreworks

Our First night in Toronto, we could see a really cool fireworks display.

View from our hotel room on King Street West ~ Toronto, Ontario

Toronto Sunrise



View from our hotel room on King Street West ~ Toronto, Ontario

Lock Bicycle to Post



Bike Ring ~ Toronto, Ontario

Christmas Tree Hunting



Tannenbaum Farms ~ Center Hall. PA

Toronto Lights


The view from the CN tower was pretty amazing. (I wish we could have gone up a little earlier to catch the sunset.) P.S. That's our hotel in the lower right.


Light Snow Today



Campus mailbox ~ Pavilion Theatre parking lot.

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!



I should have some new and exciting stuff after the break ... Stay tuned.

More from the cookbook




Today and tomorrow I thought I'd post some more pages from my cookbook. (P.S. The gray background is not part of the layout. I kept it in the screen shot so the pages don't get lost in the white background of the blog.)

Lunch and DInner

Today's lunch from Cafe Laura - Chicken & Potato Chowder.


Tonight's dinner - Meatloaf, which was prepared by Nicholas, our 5 year old. He measured all the ingredients, cracked the egg, ripped up the bread and mixed it all together. He also formed the loaf and had mommy put it into the oven. Here is the recipe from the cookbook I created last year.