…been way too long, so here are a couple of our Christmas photos:
Thank You Shannon
Friday afternoon, I was down at Tony’s Big Easy for their annual customer appreciation holiday party, when the owner, Tony Sapia, called me aside. He had an envelope in his hand and told me the following story.
He said
I got a phone call the other day and this girl asked me “Do you know Uncle Larry?” My response was “Sure, everybody knows Uncle Larry”. Her answer was “Well I’m his niece”. My answer to her was “Sure” and she replied “No really. My name is Shannon and I’m his REAL niece.”.
With that Tony handed me an envelope with a gift certificate in it and said “Merry Christmas from Shannon”.
So thank you very much Shannon and Merry Christmas in return.
I hope to hear from others what they received in the Secret Santa exchange.
Did anybody catch this news report?
I thought the “gal on the street” had some nice, insightful, well expressed thoughts on the candidate.
Click here to download and view the video.
More Thanksgiving
Not much more, really. Basically just some photos. Not enough time to compose an eloquent essay of our trip. We had a really great time. The kids did too. They seem to appreciate seeing family. (Maybe Shannon or Marilyn will tell about Lex’s spontaneous hug of Shannon.)
And we loved checking out Shan’s piece of America. Nice choice, Shan.
BTW, Sorry for the long loadtime on this post. The blog isn’t working correctly (making corrupt resized images) and I had to tweak the html manually to get these posted. If I have time I’ll fix it.
There’s a Turkey in the Attic!!
I figured out photos!
Now that I’ve figured out that the photo feature doesn’t like when there is punctuation in the name of the file, I can upload pictures of the house. Unfortuately, a lot were lost when my camera phone bought the farm. Here’s one of me ripping down wallpaper and plastering in one of the rooms in the house (I torn down wallpaper in 6 rooms). I think it’s my bedroom.
Calling all Contacts
Hello All,
It has recently come to my attention (thanks, Mom) that I may have some serious media contacts within my reach through you guys! If you are comfortable with it, could you please email me their names and email addresses? At this particular moment, I need contacts on the Eastern Seaboard, preferably in the D.C. or Baltimore area. My work email is shannonatbissonbarcelona.com.
Thanks!
A Narrow Escape
We had some crazy weather here in NH on Friday night. Severe thunderstorms paired with winds at 55+ mph didn’t mix well with the repairs being made to Portsmouth’s North Church Steeple. The entire steeple and the scaffolding came crashing down at about 6pm. No one was injured and my car narrowly escaped being completely totaled. Check out the video on this newscast. My car is BEHIND the Jeep that was ruined and next to the black truck.
This Old House… is MINE!
Hello All,
I thought I’d drop a quick note to let everyone know (if my mom hasn’t already) that I recently purchased my first home. Unfortunately, I don’t have a digital camera otherwise I’d post a picture. I may be able to send one to Gary or Larry to post by emailing from my cell phone. I never seem to have much luck with the picture posting thing. The best part, however, is that my new address is as follows:
Shannon Hill
31 Hill Street
Dover, NH 03820
How about that!
Take Me Out to the Ballgame
What a great time! The Yankees beat the Red Sox, Elliot and Adam’s tickets were legit, and the crowd was very well-behaved… in my section.
Thanks for coming down, Shan & El. It was great to be together.