Glenn and Dixie's 2008 Holiday Newsletter
Happy Holidays from Glenn and Dixie and Tucker!
Being the ultimate procrastinator, I have combined last year’s newsletter (which was never sent out) with this year’s; a two-for-one special!
This is the online electronic interwebs version, with pictures and links and everything!
To start off 2007 we went back to New Orleans for the last few days leading up to New Year’s Eve and rang in the new year on Bourbon Street and Jackson Square, counting down while watching the dropping gumbo pot. I got my first Apple product ever in January, a white MacBook. I loves it almost as much as I do Dixie. In March my younger brother, Philip, turned 40. It was celebrated in style but made me feel old. I finally got my ham license, installed a radio in my car, and added vanity plates for my new vanity call sign – WX3TOR. When severe weather approaches I am either looking for tornadoes or reporting to the local spotter network. Dixie continued her insane Jazzercise devotion by becoming a class manager and attending about 150 classes! She not only got a free t-shirt but a great group of friends…and they like LOVE our home-made wine.
September was a busy month. When September 1st rolled around we were in Alaska as part of a weeklong cruise with our good friends Steve and Joyce. We spent a couple of days at Denali National Park and wrapped up the trip with a visit to the North Pole! (the city) I took over 1,000 pictures with my new camera, a Panasonic FZ-50. After our return Dixie celebrated her 50th birthday with many Jazzercise classmates (and later cried when her AARP invitation arrived in the mail). I prepared a slideshow for my parents’ 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was a big hit. My Aunt Norma and cousin Kathy flew down from Iowa for the occasion. Then we celebrated our 17th anniversary by attending the Plano Balloon Festival, and to cap off the month we got together with our fellow wine-makers at WineStock 2007.
In early December we finally followed through on a long-overdue item and sold both of our motorcycles. While we thoroughly enjoyed almost every one of the over 20,000 miles we put on them, we were riding less and less and could no longer justify the insurance. They went to great homes and one of them was a surprise Christmas present!
For 2008 we rode in a float in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Greenville Ave. in Dallas, and then in May we spent ten days in the central mountain plateau of Mexico. We saw Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende and Guanajuato (our favorite). I kept a running travelogue with picture updates at http://trips.tumblr.com. Dixie made a return visit to New Orleans in July with her Jazzercise friends, and while she was gone I stood in line for SIX HOURS for my iPhone. Dixie was jealous and got one for herself in September, then lost it and bought a replacement in December.
In September even the HOA noticed that the large oak in front of our house was dead so we had it cut down, and in late November Dixie made me get a new car, a 2009 Kia Rio5 hatchback. It’s pretty!
We hope your holidays will be merry and that 2008 2009 will be a great year for you. Please let us hear from you!
Email Glenn at dixonge@gmail.com
Email Dixie at dixie13@gmail.com
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