Christmas Holidays

Dear Readers, and other friends!

I have just finished sending off a sort of holiday letter to the few people I correspond with semi- regularly, and I thought I ought to send you guys a sort of holiday greetings too!

Well.   There are not a lot of matters to be happy about this year.  Reluctantly starting off with political topics: after a painful several months of Trump making it clear that Liberals are not high up on his list of people to care about, he's managed to make it appear that he's aging, and not in good health.  (Or maybe he really is!)  I never thought I'd be one to rejoice at someone getting ill, but maybe Trump will go away, and leave us to try and straighten things out as well as we can.  Because of the long-drawn-out attack phase of the past eleven months, some of the less rabid MAGA types are beginning to see that he does NOT have their interests at heart. 

The Beatles family: Paul, Ringo, Julian and Sean, and Dhani, got together to play and sing a holiday song for the fans.   It was "Simply having a wonderful Christmastime!"  They could have used "So this is Christmas" by John Lennon, but they might have had a discussion and decided it was a bit too obviously political, which might have reduced some of the goodwill they had with (a generalized concept of) Beatles fans.  In the olden days, they used to send out a newsletter and a Sound Clip for the people in the Beatles Club.  Who knows whether the BC is still alive and functioning anymore?

I used to wallow in Holiday Music when I was younger, but these days I don't have the motivation to do it.  I have a couple of discs of Carols, a disc of Christmas songs [e.g. Frosty the Snowman], some holiday humorous songs [Grandma got run over], but since I spend most of my time between my house, and my friend's house, figuring out where to play my music is too much of a problem!  My friend also used to watch a movie, like "A Christmas Story", or sometimes one of the Scrooge movies, and occasionally both.  This year she's not in the best of spirits, so I haven't been pushing the movies.  Once her obligations for the season are all discharged, she might pick a new movie to watch.  She had grandchildren who visit (some of whom are major Kay fans, but of course that's not what they call me) but they're not quite old enough to sit through a movie.  Or maybe they are ...

Do you readers have snow on the ground?  I'm so envious!  We have about a 1/2 inch of snow, wherever it hasn't been blown off or plowed off.  Where I live, you get the occasional deer coming to check out the prospects of getting some grub near my house; I just leave them alone.  If course it's deer hunting season right after Thanksgiving, which might explain why there are fewer deer around right now.  (You must excuse my ignorance; I'm not hooked into the whole Hunting and Fishing culture.)

I have a tiny little Christmas tree, decorated only with those crystal balls!  In the old days, they would wrap the balls in silk, and they were called 'satins', I believe. 

Some years I have traveled to visit during the holidays.  This year,  I have an invitation to visit my cousin's home (I wrote about her in the Summer, I think?) but I have to weigh the cost versus the benefit of saying I'll be there!  I have to rent a car ... or worse, take a bus ... Also, I hate to be a nuisance during the holidays. 

Anyway, a happy holiday to you guys!

Kay