Keith from CA

Keith, may the Christmas spirit bless you and your family and the New Year be filled with joy and prosperity! Merry Christmas!

Hi Jane and Keith. I'm sending my best wishes to you and to all those you care for. Enjoy the festive season, and may today and all future days bring you good health, happiness and peace. Cheers!

Hiya Keith..




Best wishes for the festive season to you and your family - I hope that 2009 brings all that you desire....

Merry Christmas to you and your family! Take it easy or you'll look like me !
A toast to you dear friend!
May 2009 be a wonderful year for you!

Hi Keith - lovely YouTube - I didn't know the guitar could sound like that, thanks!
And thamks also for the Christmas greetings. I wish you and yours a wonderful merry Christmas doind just what you want to do and a happy, healthy and safe 2009! Cheers!

Hey Keith, Have a great Christmas and a wonderful New Year....and enjoy your travels DownUnder

Hi Keith,

A very merry Christmas to you and your family. I hope that you have a wonderful time with family and friends and that 2009 is a health full hopeful, joyful peaceful satisfying one for you.

for you Christmas Greetings. On Christmas morn, rather than sitting around the fire, I'll be bare foot and on the phone to loved ones on the other side of Australia.

It will start off at a pleasant 26 degrees - but humid and get up to about 33 but with high humidity.

I'll head off to church in something sleeveless and try to get a spot under the fan. We have louvered windows to try to catch the breeze.

After church and handing out the lemon cordial, I'll head back to prepare for lunch which will be upstairs on the veranda where we can catch the breeze. There will be 6 adults and one 5 yearold.... to be joined a bit later by a couple of young'ns We'll start with prawns and champers, and progress to cold meats and salads before moving on to Cold Christmas pudding with icecream, strawberries and blueberries. I'll lace the cream with some benedictine - as I haven't any brandy and why keep that tradition when we break so many others. I'd have done Stottish Scrawberries except with a 5 yearold and two oldies with shot livers... I'd probably have to eat/drink most of them myself - That wouldn't be pretty. Wasn't it you that got smashed a couple of years ago on my Stottish Scrawberry recipe?

At some stage people are sure to have a swim.. perhaps a game of backyard cricket.

Anyway here are some Stottish Scrawberries for you..
Stottish Scrawberries concocted by fi in the Highlands

2 punnetts of Scottish strawberries (washed and hulled) but if you must Californian will do
2 tablespoons of honey (melted in the microwave)
2 cups of Scottish whiskey - Californian Will NOT do here.

Combine the whiskey and honey.
Pour over the Scottish Strawberries.
Leave in the Fridge for a couple of hours.
Eat drink...

This is a recipe to be shared with a good sized group. We had 10 in our group.

You find that the Scottish strawberries become Stottish scrawberries within a short time of being consumed.

By the way - love the acoustic guitar version of Silent night on your You Tube... Who is the bloke playing? Can you send me a youtube link?

I'm a bit of an acoustic music fan myself.

Keith and Lynne,

Christmas is almost here. Time to enjoy family and friends and give thanks for all the Freedoms and Blessings we have. Merry Christmas to you and may God bless you and yours.

Ho Ho Ho Keith and Lynne! Stopping in with Holiday greetings for you! Wishing you a Christmas full of love and joy ...and blessings throughout the new year!

Merry Christmas to you, Keith! How did you know the Bailey's is waiting?!?!? May God Bless you and your family this Holiday Season. May His Blessings be with you through the New Year!

Hi Keith, thank you for your Christmas message. Anne and I wish you and your family a wonderful Christmas and a bright and healthy New Year.
Seeya soon.

Hey Keith - I've already drunk my Bailey's, so it's coffee with Gin from here on in.

Have a superbo Christmas and all the best for 2009.
Billy
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MERRY CHRISTMAS Keith to you and your family!

A beautiful word picture of a wonderful way to celebrate the season. Bailey's sounds great, but will have to wait until AFTER the presents are wrapped...

Merry Christmas Keith to you and the rest of your mob

Hi Keith - Just read your post on Easy and suddenly had cravings for a glass of Baileys. After much searching found the bottle at the top of a cupboard - enough there for one very small glass! So cheers to you as I drink, and hope you have a very Merry Christmas! (Hubby's off to the shops tomorrow to buy another bottle - should last us for the next 5 years!) ;)

A wonderful guitar piece Keith. I haven't been around for a while but I would like to wish Lynne and yourself the Happiest of New Years. Take care. André xx

p.s. I still have three 'Rogers' left...bliss on a barm cake xx

Hi Keith. Here's hoping that 2009 is the best year for you yet.

Keith and family!

Keith and Lynne! Wishing you a great new year!

I'm so fortunate to have so many sudoku friends, including you...

Keith, I just saw your comment on Danstell's page about your photo with sculptures. I should take a photo of our town's one and only sculpture so you can photoshop yourself beside it - 'I would if I could' photo...

The last draft you saw was the 5th one. It has changed quite a lot since then. Remember I was criticized for not having structure? I thought the ed meant the book was not structured. Turned out she was referring to my tendency to wander away from the theme of a chapter. Anyway, I now have different editor and current draft is being read by a friend who is a magazine editor. I'm now hanging out for her observations.

Love the photos of Holly.
The last 6 months I have just been skimmimg through the posts and there seem to be some references about you may be coming down under? If so please let us know so we can arrange something.
A belated but best wishes for 2009.

Love your pics Keith, looks like you all had a wonderful time!!
Great to hear that you are going to pay us a visit!! Please keep us abreast of the arrangements, it would be lovely to meet you in the flesh so-to-speak!!!

Keith for the birthday greetings. I had a lovely but hot (41*c) day.
Look forward to meeting you in April.

Thanks for letting me know Keith. Everyone seems to be having fun with it. How are things? I hope all is well with you and Lynne. Take care and stay smiling xx

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Hi Keith,

I got drawn into my page by an Sudoku generated email telling me I had a message from none other than Ian from Boston. Hadn't visited my page in a while and out of curiosity, clicked the 'friend' button and there you were.

Hope things are well with you and you are still trying to maintain some semblance of order on the easy page. I rarely visit the site now except to check out a couple of the forum pages from time to time.

No big whoop, just wanted to pop in and say howdy.

jeb

Keith - thanks for the note! I have been so busy that I have barely had time to think about when retirement is coming. I will play with my page and see if I can remember how to get a widget on there.

jamie

Hi Keith! Just dropped by to see your bird pictures. Left a couple comments on them. I finally answered Lynne's e-mail about the Travelodge in Sydney. You guys must be so excited about your upcoming trip, or guess I should say tripS! Have you figured out the final itinerary for AU yet? Do you think you'll have time to include Ayers Rock or Tasmania?

Happy Valentine's Day Lynne and Keith! A day of love and hugs to you!

Hello Keith, no long, no visit!!
I saw your query on the Parent's page which (Canuk) Greg answered for you but in case you didn't go back in and see it, I thought I'd pay you a visit.
I have three children, a son (almost 39) and two daughters (37 & 31). My son has two boys (Ned & Zac), my oldest daughter has three girls (Kirilee, Hayley & Jaimee) and my youngest daughter has two sons (Johnathan & Bailey, who is 8 months old).
There is a photo of me and all seven of my grandchildren in My Gallery.
Cheers!
Anne

43 days til 'D' day....how exciting!!
Itinerary please...where do you land and head for first...when will you be in Melbourne...I presume you are coming to Melbourne...you MUST come to Melbourne...we have some wonderful statues to show you... How would you like Gail & I to be tour advisers, guides... probably should ask her first B4 volunteering her...
This is where I want to take you..
http://www.parkweb.vic.gov.au/1park_display.cfm?park=216

Oh...another good spot for some group photos with 'different' statues is Heidi...the museum for Modern Art...that would be a good place for a meet here in Melbourne. [hope you are allowing a schedule free for a few meets here in Melbourne...]
This is a link to their current exhibit...what a pity you will miss it...
http://www.heide.com.au/exhibitions/the_art_of_existence?exhib=30

Hey Keith, thanks for your msg and the chance to listen to your youtube - great stuff - would've been a wonderfully entertaining concert.

happy packing for your impending trip to Oz! safe travels and enjoy.
Billy
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Just popping in Keith. Your trip 'down under' sounds as though it is going to be wonderful. I was reading in the news that we are going to be having a new statue built in England which will rival 'The Angel of the North'(not sure if you have heard of that one). It is a horse of gigantic proportions. You can google Horse Ebbfleet. I'm not sure that I would like to see it on the landscape when driving...I probably would think it was a UFO. Hope all is well with you and Lynne and that you enjoyed your recent break. Take care x

Hi Keith...busy plotting and planning down under....

He he...Keith...I have a bit of an idea...I will be like that when I finally get to come over there...so many people I want to meet!
Have a few eager contenders for our day in the hills...I think it will turn into a FULL day...hope you have more stamina than me!!
William Rickets, Cloudhill and then a picnic or BBQ when you get off Puffing Billy at Emerald Lake..[round the corner from Gails..]

Keith, sorry that we bumped you past 222 last night! We were trying so hard to get you there and I guess we were too exuberant!