Well, it's about time for winter weather. Looks like it is beginning, just in time for the holidays.
Christmas office, church Sunday School parties and church dramas are in full swing now. There are other needy people we need to remember. Lillie Vaughn is asking for donations of socks, gloves and hats for residents at the rescue mission. Contact her at the UCHRA local office if you can help.
Happy Birthday, the latter part of December, to a long-time high school friend, Janis Moorehead; Cathy Frazier, Lori Driver, Betty Turner Loeb,  Sue Driver, Harold Tolbert, Savannah Driver, Jane Eller, Chase Cantrell, Robert LeFevre, Bert Driver (a Christmas day baby), Suzanne Prater, Jen Sherwood, Greg Driver, Westley Carter and Alex Lasser.
Celebrating anniversaries this month are  Walter and Vickie Burton, T.M. and Juanita Hooper, Claudette and Harry Lasser, Glen and Peggy Henrixson, Jerry Lee and Jane Cantrell, Bill and Rhonda Harpole.
Continued get-well wishes to my brother-in-law, Laird Barnard, who is home now; Brenda Tramel, Jerry Sutton, Lucille VanWinkle, and Mrs Juanita (Rebecca Purdue's mother) at NHC.
Heard the color for 2013 is emerald green. Does that include diamonds, too?
I attended the UMC District dinner in Cookeville Friday evening along with my pastor, Dr. John Carpenter and wife Kathy. Good to have seen Rev John Purdue and wife Rebecca, who are now at Crossville First. Rather than driving back in the dark, I was the overnight guest of my good friend Elaine Craighead, who also was my guest at the dinner. I also participated in the program that evening. Good to have seen the other ministers in the Cookeville district that evening. It was a delicious dinner.
Next week I would like to receive your unusual and unique Christmas gifts from years past. My first Christmas as a wife I received a wheelbarrow. There must have been a message there. Duh! So send me your unusual gifts. Thanks.
Saw a sign the other day:  "When you stop believing in Santa Claus, you get underwear!"  Amen.