12 Reasons

1. Saw lots of family at Thanksgiving.
2. Celebrated my dad's 90th birthday with pumpkin pie.
3. Caught up with a friend by phone tonight.
4. Found some Christmas lights.
5. Got my printer working again.
6. Replaced a much needed tool.
7. Making another fabric heart tonight.
8. Took a two mile walk in the sun (brrr...) this afternoon.
9. Saw a group of snow geese floating near the shore this morning.
10. Found a new fun coffee place.
11. Looking forward to two friends coming to visit on Tuesday.
12. One piece of pecan pie left...but not for long!

Buddha? What Buddha?

Since it snowed all yesterday, and all night...this is what happened to Buddha.
On the other hand Sarah made it from Virginia all the way to Seattle yesterday!! Yeah!! And she made it out of the airport and home!! Yeah!!
This is likely to be the strangest Christmas on record for a while. We may not see a true in person gathering of loved ones until 2009.

a ghost from Christmas past

An old book...Robert Burns Complete Poetical Works...given on Christmas of 1899 by my great uncle Jack to his aunt Hattie....leather bound, well loved, a treasured present no doubt (the family origins are Scottish you see.)

It makes one think about what our descendants might find in the category of well loved treasures and what they might deduce from what they find?

In any case, this is still a treasure in my life--reminding me as it does of these two people, one I knew well, the other just barely.