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Curled up and drinking tea!

Got the flue so will catch up with you as soon as I am better.  Still warm here but a little windy at the end of the day.  Not complaining..............Have a Mexican Navey Ship at our stern tonight...........so we should be safe!!!! Good night  Lue

HOPE YOU ARE STILL OUT THERE?????

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I know we have all been pretty occupied with the Season and all that goes with it:  family, friends and oh so much food and drink!!!  With the Christmas Season nearly behind us we can get back to normal  whatever that is????   You know some traditions celebrate well into January as no one is really certain when the exact birth date  was, so to  my  Ukrainian friends and brother in law Bill -- Merry Christmas.  (Could someone write back and tell us how to say/spell  that in English??)

With a NEW YEAR some changes.

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Our calendar brings us a brand new year and inevitably some change.   For some of us we just wish we would wake up and whatever it was that we wanted to change--it would have been transformed in our sleep.  You know like old Scrooge?  Oh! that our life would be that easy.   Here's a little story that exemplifies how some folks just accept change. My eldest sister Colette from Kelowna sent it to me: A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner  for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time and as he passed the pretzel stand he would leave her a quarter,  never taking a  pretzel. This went on for more than three years during which time the two of  them never spoke.  One day as th...