TheBanyanTree: The night before Christmas approaches.

[Tom Smith]

Thanks, Peter.  Good to hear from you.  

All our shopping and mailing is done.  There's a small mountain of gift 
cookies, biscotti, and chocolate-smothered pretzels to be savored
and chased with champagne.   -Tom
 

> I count my blessings: I don't have to wear socks for months and months, 
> I can always have a cold shower to wash the sweat off, we can buy nice 
> food, we can eat everything we want, my knees are working (near enough 
> for government work), there's beer and wine in the fridge, there's 
> cheese, chocolates, smoked salmon and capers, olives and fruit of many 
> kinds. 
> 
> May you have as many blessings and more. 
> 
>peter