Merry Christmas.

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2015. Happy Christmas from all of us.

Our Christmas Cards: Current Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2014. Merry Christmas from the five of us.

Our Christmas Cards: Look-up Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2013. The doggies are accustomed to the routine.

Our Christmas Cards: Poppy-settles-in Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2012. This was the year we cheated: we used a photo from the previous year's shoot. Would you have noticed?

Our Christmas Cards: New-Addition Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2011. Poppy came to live with us in August 2011. She's the little one wearing bows. It took a few tries to stage this shot.

Our Christmas Cards: Back-to-what-matters Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2010. Rex spots the camera; Baci's still focused on the turkey bait.

Our Christmas Cards: Annus-Horribilis Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2009. The troubles started late in 2008, and they lingered.

Our Christmas Cards: A Passing Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2008. Our Pupa—the little one, wearing bows, in the center—passed away in August 2008.

Our Christmas Cards: Three-Dog Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2007. Rex joined the group. (I earlier posted this photo here.)

Our Christmas Cards: Adaptable Edition

Verona, Wisconsin, December 2006. We used the holiday greeting to announce another move. Pupa and Baci brought their beds and suitcase to the new place.

(Rex and his owner—my Mom—joined us in this house a few months later.)

Our Christmas Cards: Forget-Us-Not Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 2005. This card featured Pupa and Baci enjoying a Door County flower field.

Our Christmas Cards: Lazy Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 2004. This card featured Pupa and Baci on "Bunny Patrol."

Our Chirstmas Cards: Photo-Sheet Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 2003. We introduced the "photo summary" to our Christmas mailings in 2003. That year, we sent out the summary only, and we did not prepare separate photo cards. Since then, we've mailed both cards and photo sheets.

The 2003 sheet featured our acquisition of Baci and Žulė's passing (the two events may not have been unrelated: Baci's exuberance likely overwhelmed Žulė). The sheet also highlighted some knitting: Mr. Irene models a sweater I knitted for my boss, and Mom wears one I did for the wife of a former colleague.

Our Christmas Cards: Shaggy Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 2002. We featured the Poodles in their most common state.

Our Christmas Cards: Solemn Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 2001. Was this really the best shot we could find for the year?

Our Christmas Cards: Ornamental Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 2000. This is the image of the first "granddogs"—Žulė and Pupa—that Mom still carries in her wallet.

Our Christmas Cards: Dining-Room Edition

 

Madison, Wisconsin, December 1999. By 1999,  Žulė and Pupa were accustomed to posing for the card shot.

(I posted this photo earlier here.)

Our Christmas Cards: Decorated Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 1997. We made an effort that year.

Our Christmas Cards: Three-Sweater Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 1996. The sweater I'm wearing was the first stranded ("fair isle") project I knitted.

Our Christmas Cards: Settled-In Edition

Madison, Wisconsin, December 1995. Pupa has grown up, and Žulė enjoys her company.