Wow! It's great to have the cards and packages out, Olde Fashioned Christmas over (it's a happy community event, but it can get grueling for us oldies!), the food box materials collected (Durango Friends Meeting will assemble them into 15 two-box units for distribution to needy families in the Durango area right after New Year's) and no big Christmas event to plan and prepare for. We can just relax and enjoy the holiday season and, by golly, that's just what we're doing!
It will definitely be a white Christmas here ... 6-8 inches on the ground and snow falling now ("dawn" if we could see it) and expected to continue through tomorrow. We had a wonderful day yesterday, going to see the Nutcracker at the Fort Lewis College Community Concert Hall. Sandy loves the Nutcracker (and will, I hope, provide the commentary on the pics above), so we got seats early ... right in the middle of the front row! That meant we were only surrounded on three sides by awe-struck urchins, of which there were many dozens in the packed hall. And they WERE attentive; no noise from them at all. What fun!
Today includes a visit to the rec center (Christmas is hard on both the waistline and the joints!), work on a jigsaw puzzle (the cats are helping, of course) and reviewing pictures for some upcoming exhibits and a group that we plan to donate to the library for fundraising purposes.
After eating out in Durango on Christmas day, we're really looking forward to the trip to Santa Fe on the 26th through the 28th. Santa Fe has SO much to see, we'll barely scrape the surface in our short time there. Reason to go back, right?
I'm actually almost as excited about what we may see on the way there and back. Weather permitting, it may be a wonderful time to be visiting the tiny Hispanic mountain towns and the Pueblos north of Santa Fe ... Chama, Tierra Amarilla, Abiquiu, Tesuque, etc. Some of them have adobe churches that go back hundreds of years.
Keep warm, feed the birds, pet the cats and dogs, love your family and friends and think positive thoughts about the new year! tv
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