The weather has been cool and damp, encouraging us to stay indoors. This has allowed me to read a couple of books, murder mysteries, and work on some slide show. Earlier this summer I decided that it was time to organize the digital photographs that have been just sitting on the hard drives. The easiest way for me to organize them is to create slide shows the way I would have created photo albums with prints. Ed bought his first digital camera at Christmas 2002. My goal is to have Christmas 2002 and all of 2003 done by the end of this year and I've almost accomplished that --- just have music to add to one slide show.

On Christmas Eve there is a short program followed by "finger foods" at the rec hall each year. Once again it was pretty good and there was way too much food.

Christmas morning Zaph gets to see what's inside his stocking. This year he got a couple of toys and some treats. Think he liked what he got.

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Catie and her mom and dad came over so Zaph and Catie could exchange gifts. Zaph gave Catie one of his bandannas and she really likes it.
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A couple of birds hanging around our site.


On Christmas Day there is a pot luck dinner at 1pm. I think "the park" cooked 5 turkeys and 3 hams this year and everyone else brought a dish. After the meal a couple of people got up and sang Christmas carols including the little girl who belongs to the park's handyman, Jose. Michelle sang Here Comes Santa Claus and who walked in during her song --- Santa, Mrs. Clause, and JJ Claus. It was a lot of fun but as always ---- a lot of food.

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The crowd.

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Jose and family. A number of people give Jose's children presents that Santa gives out.

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Santa, JJ Claus, Mrs. Clause and the elf

One of the things we miss by going to the Christmas pot luck is left over turkey. To remedy this situation I bought a 17 pound turkey (the smalled turkey I could find) and invited 6 people over for Boxing Day dinner. The first response is "huh??? what is boxing day? and a after a quick explanation including when boxing day is they are happy to come. I had hoped for warm enough weather that we could sit outside to eat but that was not to be. I now know that eight people can sit comfortably at two tables in my trailer.

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The trailer is ready.

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Everyone is here.

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