Christmas Eve dinner tonight; Annual cookie baking; Trombonic introductions; New Helt in town; Does it rime?

Dee came home with a load of holiday groceries

and placed a solidly-frozen prize at my feet.

Our approaching Xmas Eve dinner

- King Crab -

is to be one of my favorite delicacies,

my partner/34 years wife joyfully said.

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ANNUAL COOKIE BAKING

Dee and Cathy again embark on their cheery baking
this time at the Odd Fellows hall.

Cathy mouthes a Xmas Carol between bites.

Was is a bird?

No, it WAS a reindeer.

The event culminated with a carry-out fish dinner from Tallinger's on Sunset

brought in by Ed, Cathy's husband.  Scrumptuous!

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Yesteryear:

This photo from a much earlier cookie baking

at DeGroot's

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trombonic introductions
with plunger

and a reference to Frank Sinatra

Mnozl Brass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egHWqEDlHuk

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYRMbj6U2Ww



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NEW HELT IN TOWN

Born 12-18-17

to Aaron and Sarah Helt
the second grandchild of John and Cindy Helt
Bayview WI


Lyda Frances

The name is chosen from Lyda's mother's family.

It has nothing we know of to do with this
old favorite 'Lyda Rose' from the Broadway musical THE MUSIC MAN
but we will be thinking of it anyway.

A GREAT NAME !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLEEGnA8vQ8

Dad, Grandpa and Lyda

"....to get the sun back in the sky"

Wentworth Ave Bayview Xmas house this year
(with SRN trailer hitch liberties taken)



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Does it rime?

In many ways 2017 was a year that never was
for the Waukesha Sewer Raccoon News.

We lift a year-end glass to approaching 2018
and wish everyone including ourselves
WELL

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year