Um like dude, I think you could kick my rear end even if I had my staff and had practiced quite a bit more. The guy on the right(sitting on the floor) is looking at you like,"I sure hope he didn't crush that dude's trachea". The guy on the the left("soldier" shirt) looks like,"Oh c**p hope I'm not next". LOL! Your wife takes great action shots! You did really,really well. I'd love to see you do your thing in person. I miss Kali. I can't find a place to practice Kali here in DFW. I'm kind of sad about it. Sticks are fun! Good job! BTW, I'm not sure if that captures the Christmas spirit. Then again, watching some people shop, it just might! :^) PJ

How many tons of flower seeds do you want? Just joking. I use my old cards to make book marks especially the shiny ones.Cut them and usually fold them in half so I have a front and back to the bookmark. I'd love to have some of your cards. Send me an E-mail and I will check my seed stock. By old, how old do you mean?

Yes we do! My actual library chairs are in my office because of naughty kitties. They will not stay out of the fireplace and they keep tracking soot all through the house. I can only imagine soot prints all over my new chairs so they have been banished to the office until I can find a cat proof solution to them getting in the fp. Toby is the Hoss Cartwright of cats so I can't imagine how he squeezes his chunky self into that tiny space.

Probably because of the stage in life we're at, probably 90% of the cards we receive are photo cards with people's kids on them. So they can't really be used as gift tags, though that is a cute idea and now I'll see if any of ours can be re-used that way. I have a hard time throwing away photo cards especially of friends and family -- just seems cold -- so I usually save them in a drawer for a year or two, THEN toss them. The funny thing is when we get photo cards from DH's coworkers and my kids are like, "who the heck is that?" I agree that I am not too interested in the pictures of random coworkers' families but it seems to be a thing in DH's office -- SO many of them exchange cards and I only know who a few of them are.