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Tonight is the first Christmas Party of the season – my husband’s office party.

It’s a great opportunity to dress up a bit and go have some festive fun!  We don’t get a lot of those kinds of opportunities here Bfhind the Redwood Curtain where everything is rather casual.  So this is a great chance to dig out the special clothes from the back of the closet and go dancing.

Our dear friend Jim from Lake Tahoe just spent 2 days with us – he and hubby Tom went golfing yesterday.  It was the first time Tom had been golfing in a decade or so.  For me, the last time I swung a golf club was in High School!  But, I’ve told Tom I think it would be fun and good exercise to get out occasionally, so it looks like we may be doing exactly that.  Great opportunity to (re)learn a new skill, get some exercise with my dear husband, and get outside.

A friend down the hill from us gave us a wooden picnic table his father (a carpenter) had made several years ago.  His father (Sandy) was my husband Tom’s best fishing buddy who passed away earlier this year (at 92 I believe).  We put the table out by the barbeque.  It covers our generator (necessary due to the power outages we get every year), and provides a nice place for the plants and for the kitties to take a nap.  I told Tom that it’s nice to have Sandy at the house!

He and his wife would always come to my birthday parties and usually at that time of the year (early fall) the weather was nice enough to have a barbeque or some outside activities.  Now we can think of him everytime we cook outdoors!