Glad to See the Sun

This morning we danced to Darryl Lipscomb. Some of the dancers put on a "This Is Your Childhood" show for Darryl, a bit of fun to present him with his holiday card and gift. Jane emceed and rode the "motorcyle" around the hall (her new bike, with engine noises playing on the speakers). Jerry Story and Joe Saltel attended to see their friend put on the spot, er... honored. Jerry and Kristy danced in the last square with Dick and Mary Ann, Don and Louise, and us.

We were glad to see the sun and milder temps today, so we got out on the bikes for a 10-mile ride along a trail we biked last year. I said something to Ken about not having the trail map, and he said, "Just follow the yellow line..." which worked, of course, since we were already familiar with the route. The sky was a spectacular blue.



When we got back to the park we stopped by Guest Services to pick up our mail. We were expecting an envelope forwarded from Livingston by the Escapees Mail Service, and were surprised to find a Christmas package from Terri waiting for us too. The presents inside were wrapped, so now we have cheery packages under our tree. We got several Christmas cards too, including a couple of photo greetings. One was from our friends Tom and Nanci in Olympia. It shows the two of them in Tom's new woodworking shop, where Tom is happily, according to Nanci, making sawdust 8-) The other was from my cousin Jan and her husband George, who live in Scottsdale, AZ. They are cutting up, with big smiles as usual. It's good to see George out of the hospital and looking so cheerful.



We chatted with our neighbor, Jerry, as we were getting ready to head out on our bike ride. He said that he and his wife had fulltimed for five years, but now have a home in Arkansas, near Hot Springs in a gated community with nine golf courses.

Tonight we watched a bit of Elf we happened to catch. Farrell's exuberance and innocence are heart warming, but the section we watched was enough of a taste for us, since we don't have any five-year-olds to entertain.

We also watched Bill Moyer's Journal. He seems to us to offer a viewpoint on current events infused with decency and insight and hope. He recommended Chalmers Johnson's book, Nemesis, and we ordered it from Amazon Marketplace for $7.97, delivered.