One more round of thank yous for the wonderful holiday gifts that have arrived in the last couple of weeks.<\/p>\n
If I’ve missed anyone, please kick my backside in the comment section. I assure you it’s not intentional; it’s merely being overwhelmed.<\/p>\n
I put the question mark in the title because two wish list items still remain among the missing — and all Amazon will tell me is that those two (the Bainbridge stove<\/a> and the Energizer auto-emergency thing-a-ma-jig<\/a>) were shipped to someone or someones other than me. Amazon says this is usually done because someone wants to wrap or personally deliver a gift.<\/p>\n So either I’ll be getting a giant New Year’s surprise when those gifts arrive or … somebody liked my wish list items so much they bought them for themselves. In that case … well, enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One more round of thank yous for the wonderful holiday gifts that have arrived in the last couple of weeks. To H&K for the beautiful, big pressure canner. I’ve never had one before and this will greatly expand my canning range. To JM for The Solid Gold Cadillac; I watched that great old Judy Holliday film the other day and it’s as delightful as ever. To JB for the “chutney-colored” alpaca yarn, which quickly became a pair of chutney-colored fingerless gloves. To K for wine with an afterglow of … apricots! To SR for seeing that all the dogs got…<\/p>\n