Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from Geri, Ruby and I

 

Detroit Area Shriners Past Masters and Reception Unit Christmas Party

Geri, Ruby and I at our table.

Geri, Ruby and I at Dinner

Ruby in front of the Christmas Tree

Geri, Ruby and I in front of the Christmas Tree

Each year, Detroit Area Shriners hold a Christmas Party for members of the Past Masters Unit (Which I belong to, being a Past Master in the Masonic Fraternity) and the Reception unit.  Family Style Sit down dinner and dancing afterward,  Formal attire suggested.  Always a nice occassion.  Geri, Ruby and I attended. 

Sounds of the Season Concert by Motor City Brass Band

Today (Sunday December 11, 2011) was our Sounds of the Season  Concert (aka Christmas Concert) at Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn, Michigan.  The Motor City Brass Band has been in existence for sixteen (16) years and is a 32 member British-Style Brass Band.  This means that there are no woodwind instruments in the band (Flutes, Clarinets, Oboes, Bassoons, Saxophones).  We have a Soprano Cornet, twelve Cornets (including me), a Flugelhorn, three Tenor Horns, two Euphoniums, two Baritones, two Trombones, a Bass Trombone, three Eb Tubas, two BBb Tubas and we have four percussionists who play all the percussion instruments.

The Stage was Decorated for Christmas

The Band on Stage for the 2009

 Sounds of the Season Concert

The Band on Stage for the 2011 

Sounds of the Season Concert

Ruby and I are waiting for the

signal to go on stage today.

Dad and I are on a Christmas Tree

Paws With A  Cause has a Christmas Tree at the Gerald R.Ford Presidential Library and Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Christmas season.  On that tree are ornaments which are representative of PAWS Dog and Client teams.  These are pictures of our ornament which has our picture on it.

Our Ornament.

Wider Shot showing our ornament along

with other ornaments and more of the tree.





It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's Ruby's First Christmas as a Richardson so she got a new stocking.

Ruby's first Christmas Ornament - a gift from Lynn Hoekstra to celebrate Ruby's Certification

Ruby by the Christmas Tree at the Shrine Center