FALLING FAR FROM THE TREE
RISD’s “lunch ladies” made a fantastic meal for the annual Christmas luncheon on Monday, and I was lucky enough to receive an invitation.
On the menu was a Caesar salad, followed by the main course of roast beef, scalloped potatoes and multi-colored carrots. The meal ended with cheesecake with chocolate sauce and strawberries. I was so full that I didn’t want to go back to work. Thanks for the invitation, RISD!
Mentioned at the luncheon was all of the school bond work that is ongoing, and I can’t wait to see the finished results. The junior high has received the most work of any campus and some of the changes are already amazing, although I haven’t seen them in person.
The commons area is now all one level instead of multiple levels and RISD Board Member Karen Laughlin told me it looks much bigger. I understand the library is also bigger after a remodel.
Anyway, it will be nice to see the changes on each campus when they are all done. —kwc— I am actually looking forward to Christmas this year. I haven’t really looked forward to it since my sister died. She was the big Christmas person in our family and her absence is really felt, at least by me. Since we don’t have any littles in the family, we are less about gifts and more about food. I think we are going to have rib-eyes again this year with some good sides and keep it simple.
We did this last year, and everyone enjoyed it. I bought them and that was my gift to everyone, which I told them as we all dug in to eat.
One year I was going to get rib-eyes but then I saw a rib roast and got that instead which could happen again. We shall see. —kwc— Next week’s paper is coming out early as well as the following week because of Christmas and New Year Day falling on Wednesdays. Subscribers will get their papers in the mail on Tuesday. —kwc— The local reporter was with the crowd of parade watchers, welcoming Santa as he arrived in town, and in an interview asked a bouncy four-year-old girl if she had talked with this Santa yet to give him her Christmas list.
“No” she replied emphatically.
“Are you going to talk with Santa,” he asked.
“NO,” once again was the most definite answer which was not the reaction that he was expecting at all!
“Why,” he curiously asked the little one.
“Because the real Santa is at the Mall.” —kwc— A 10-year-old, under the tutelage of her grandmother, was becoming quite knowledgeable about the Bible.
Then one day she floored her grandmother by asking, “Which virgin was the mother of Jesus? The virgin Mary or the King James Virgin?” —kwc— Two young boys were spending the night at their grandparents house the week before Christmas. At bedtime, the two boys knelt beside their beds to say their prayers. The younger one began praying at the top of his lungs: “I PRAY FOR A NEW BICYCLE!”
“I PRAY FOR A NEW NINTENDO!”
His older brother leaned over, nudged him and said, “Why are you shouting? God isn’t deaf.”
To which the little brother replied, “No, but Grandma is!”
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