SANTA'S ON HIS WAY!

Christmas is going to be a bit different here.  The extent of our decorations is a wreath on the door.  We just couldn't see buying a tree and decorations here when we have all that at home.  I did buy a rustic-looking creche as a souvenir.

We went to a Greek restaurant a couple of Friday's ago with the Priors and Flemings.  It was a little"hole in the wall" place.  I'm not sure I'm really fond of some of the seasonings.  I had skewered shrimp over rice.  I think if we go again, I'll go for the gyro (chicken...not lamb).

Among the interesting things here in KY:  I'm sure you can guess what the yards look like after fall...with all the trees here!  If you don't want to bag all of them, you can just rake them to the curb and trucks with "leaf suckers" on them come by and vacuum them up.  Not a bad deal unless the wind comes up before they come by!
Another thing:  When the new missionaries are being instructed, the president tells them to be really careful because in Kentucky the yellow light means speed, and the red light is just a suggestion.

Leaf Sucker

Transfers came and went.  We had an interesting group of missionaries coming in:  10 Sisters and 4 Elders.  Those going home this month had more sisters too.  We will have early releases on January 2 for those starting school in Spring semester and then the others on January 26.  February looks like a pretty quiet month.  Angie and Mike are coming President's Day weekend to visit.  I can't wait!!

There are still some die-hard exercisers out in the park.  There are some we've named, like "Short shorts black socks guy",  "White-haired two dog lady", and "Rollerblade dude".  There are other regulars too but we haven't attached names to them yet.

We went to Lexington Saturday to go to a multi-denominational sing along of the Messiah.  It was so good.  They had removed 5 rows of benches in the chapel so the chamber orchestra could go there.  They even had a harpsichord.  It was just what I needed to put me in the Christmas spirit. We spent the night there and went to Church at the Pioneer Ward before coming home.  We had the trio of Sisters to dinner last night.  One of them goes home on the 2nd.

I drove by this Friday:  He reminds me of a much-younger version of "Big Boy" we had growing up in California.

We used to drive through the Bob's on Sherman Way or stop and get a burger, fries, and vanilla coke, on Wednesdays and Saturdays.  From there we'd drive to Van Nuys Blvd to "drag", looking for friends to meet up with.  Jeri went to this one when she visited Heather in KY and was disappointed it wasn't like we remember!

On that note...not much more for this post!