Ho! Ho! Ho! We’re still full of Christmas cheer. Usually, I pretty well know what Santa is up to, but this year the Santas did all the shopping on their own without asking. They just knew what I needed and wanted. That Santa is a pretty smart fellow.

There is a spaghetti dinner Wednesday, December 28, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the St. Francis de Sales School in Manistique for Bob and Jean White. They lost their home and belongings in a fire Monday, December 12. They really need your help in any way you can. The dinner is by donation, so whatever you can do to help will be appreciated. A bake sale was held Wednesday, December 21, at the Schoolcraft Memorial Hospital for the Whites. All of you who received new snowmobiles from Santa for Christmas, please take it easy when you’re riding. Please take it easy and have fun.

The activities are winding down for awhile, until the weather starts to get better and warmer. It won't be too long, we only have January and February to get through, then it will start to warm up. It really will, won't it?

Our son sent a cartoon, which he found in his local newspaper in Florida the other day. When the hurricanes were blowing through Florida, I kept telling him, "Why don't you move, get back up here where we do not have hurricanes." I said, "I do not particularly like the snow, but at least it doesn't blow my house up in the air and toss it around, or pick me up and send me through the air. I'll take the snow over hurricanes any day." Well, the other day he sent this cartoon that showed two people walking shoulder deep in snow. Behind them their car was buried deep in the snow and one of them was saying, "Well, at least it's better than hurricanes." I have it on the refrigerator to remind me of how much better snow is.

I have no new birthdays or anniversaries on my calendar to end the year, so I'll just say congratulations to anyone whom I may have missed last year. It has been a great year, and a long one in some ways. But we’re still here and reasonably healthy to start the new year. We hope you all have a happy and blessed holiday and wish you all good health and happiness in the New Year.

Stay safe and stay well. See you next week.