Merry Chanukah

Below are the windjammers at Ulner's Point, wrapped up for the winter and, this year, for the first time since we moved here, decorated for Chanukah:

Later they added a Christmas tree to another of the masts, but I have to say, the tree does not seem so impressive as the Magen David (Star of David).  See how the tiny tree appears to float over to the left?

So, Merry Chanukah everyone.  That was the greeting on my holiday gift from my son and grandsons. Inside was the best gift of all: a DVD containing another 90 minutes of "Wet Pants and the Fisher Baby," a home movie professionally edited by my son Sam, with soundtrack and all.  This is, I think, the third or fourth episode.  This new episode was all about their trip up here to visit us this past summer. 

I sent the boys Christmas "hats". Sam sent this photo.  Are they not handsome?  (You can't really see it, but Cello is wearing reindeer antlers that light up!)

Christmas Day it was 52 degrees here.   David and I went to the Methodist Home at 7:00 am to help make Christmas dinner to package up and send out for the "Meals on Wheels" program.  We worked there with a few other volunteers until 9:30 or so, and then went over to the church where the community Christmas Dinner is held and worked there through the rest of the morning and into the afternoon.  We served about 110-120 guests.  Santa Claus even dropped by:

And now we turn toward the end of the old year and the start of the new.  

Is there a chance for peace on earth?   May it be so, in our lifetime.