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One of the tables of great foods at the Gallery Guild party last night.   So many nice new people to meet, all dressed up and ready to celebrate their Christmas gathering one more time.   Seniors, and I had to laugh as I walked in and the men were gathered around the bar in one room while the ladies were walking about looking over the items for sale.  Some things never change.   Someone told me that there was a special game being played so you know some of the men left a bit earlier than usual.   One lady told me she drove her car in and her husband drove his car in so he must have been one of the ones that left early. 

A good time was had by all and they did do a lot of shopping.  I think the proceeds came to well over four hundred dollars and that is a good sale. This group rents the gallery every year for twenty-five dollars.  Marcia, a new lady I met, and one my age, her birthday was in November and she looks and feels like sixty.  I told her I felt like forty some days but a hundred others and she agreed.   She has been a member of this guild since the seventies.   Another lady and I had a lengthily conversation and she told me her husband was Italian and from Connecticut so we talked about the 'league of nations' neighborhoods of yesteryear and wished we had them back again.  The food they brought was delicious and one new idea was the tiny white Yukon gold potatoes, reamed out and filled with creamy cheese and spices.   The cupcakes were like creamy chocolate pudding, but more cake like.   A good spread and made a nice supper for us.  

So my vacation days are dwindling and I should be heading back to Brookings before the week is over.   Pat and Erin are meeting me in Coos Bay and I'll be back home ready to start decorating for Christmas.   It really is a great time of year, brings out the good and bad in all of us.   The good that we want to buy everyone a special gift and the bad because we overdo and spend too much.   But . . . there is always a but, think of the smiles, the love, the hugs, the feeling of sharing and caring and it is all worth every penny of it.   Just be sure you remember to pull in your reigns a little as this year we have many in need and it is in the giving that we share the brotherhood of man.    Live, laugh, love and look around and see what is really going on in your neighborhood.   If there is need, help gently . . . if there is anger, release it . . . be the leader of the smile with your eyes and pucker up as you give someone one of those big walk in hugs.   Hugs to all.
 

What mother hasn't uttered these words????     

the nurses found a way to make Christmas merry and bright.  Clever. 

A wall hanging....just decorate the wall and save yourself a walk out to buy a real tree....pretty and nice to look at but I still prefer a real tree.