Margaret's card arrived on the Monday after Thanksgiving. Others are trickling in. Last night AEK and Maven came over for dinner, thank you RDC, and afterward AEK and I watched three episodes of "Gilmore Girls" with me addressing envelopes throughout. Affixing address labels, that is, recipient and return.
Saturday we plan to find our tree. Sunday the Other bookclub is going to the Brown Palace for tea, so RDC said he'll probably go skiing. That's good, because I'll bake present-cookies before and after tea--peanut butter for my father, as usual, and ginger-chocolate for my mother, and something or other for BDL, and also print cards.
If the printer doesn't die, I should be able to mail everything on Monday, which would mean I'd be done with everything remote. Making and wrapping local presents is much more fun.
Months ago Maven said her brother (who was visiting at the time and attended my birthday party) mentioned the accidental guinea fowl in his weblog. I didn't even pretend ignorance of the concept ("a weblog? what's that? what a notion!") but asked for the address. Finally she remembered to send it to me.
In May he was fine, if a little quiet, and gave me a really nice pen-and-ink portrait of Blake done from a photograph on the website. Now though I question his motives in drawing my little buddy, because come to find out from his weblog...he's a furry.