Since I FAILED to call Carol on her birthday, I thought I’d try to call her for her birthmonth. But according to David, she is out celebrating the pending New Year with Bob and GJM. So I’ll just sing here…
[Sung to the tune of Happy Birthday to You.]
Happy birthmonth to you!
Happy birthmonth to you!
Happy birthmonth dear sister,
Happy birthmonth to you!
Claire and I put together a notebook of all of our past Christmas cards since 1987. Although Claire has been around for the shortest time, it appears she has made the most artistic contributions to card designs. This includes her “Last But Not Least” illustration of Santa and the reindeer making one last stop on Christmas morning.
Before color printing was readily available, we used to sit around the table and hand color in each card with color pencils. This pre-dates Claire who was amazed to find out we did this. I pointed out one of the early cards that Nicole and Danny helped draw. As we sat around coloring in the cards, Danny suddenly exclaimed, “I forgot to draw arms on Santa!” He had colored in several of the Santas before realizing this.
Danny and I went over to Gramalie’s yesterday to tackle the path, one of mom’s top worries. The grass path has become mostly a dirt path because grass is not going to grow in the shade of the screen porch and the canopy of trees.
The three of us went to Home Depot and picked out 23 pre-fab brick (really concrete) square tiles. About 16″ square. Heavy. Danny and I dug shallow square holes to level out and hold each stepping stone. We should have done this years ago, because it makes so much sense. Works well with the lumber tiers already in place.
Next step: Lava rock or dwarf mondo grass as filler.
