From birthday to Christmas, it's been a pretty nice time for me. My harp finally arrived a day late, due to some glitch at Fed Ex, but not it's here, and if I can ever get those two pins to stop slipping, it will be great.
We had a great dinner at Gail's today (though it's late as I write this, so the date will probably show as December 26.) It was a really good time with good friends. Gail goes to a lot of work to make sure we all have Christmas dinner together, and all most of us do is show up and eat. Today we had ham, asparagus, squash, sweet potatoes, potatoes, salad, and hors d'oeuvres. Zoe brought some egg nog which was quite enjoyable, too.
Last night we went to the 7 p.m. service at St. John's Lutheran church. As a Christmas eve church shopper, I have to say this is one of the better services. Of course, mostly what I want to do is listen to some nice music and sing a bunch of carols. We realized after we got there that at this church the big service is at 11 p.m., so we may go to that one next year. But the 7 p.m. was very nice. I usually hate Silent Night because people get all emotional and weepy, and it's often the song where they light the candles during a candlelight service. And I think all those things were true last night, but in addition, they also sing it in German -- possibly a sort of Lutheran homeland thing or whatever -- and that was pretty cool, because you could see that lots of people in the congregation actually knew it in German and weren't looking at the words. St John's is a
beautiful Craftsman inspired church which recently underwent a very long renovation of the church and also the organ. This is the only picture I could find of the interior of the church, which is from somebody's wedding, and doesn't really show how pretty it is inside.
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