A very VERY merry christmas
Here is a copy of an email I got this morning – you will ALL be as delighted as was to read it.
< < Dear Jo, and all my friends... for the poem and the Santa picture, thanks and I send best holiday. wishes to you. My daughter forwarded me your note of concern and I write quickly to say that I am alive and well-- and grateful indeed to be able to say that. In brief, I had two emergency hernia operations in mid winter last year-- and I had been plagued by other problems before that so I was admitted to Hospice and not given much chance of a future. BUT--I fooled them all, graduated from Hospice and HomeCare and am now walking completely on my own two feet around my house.I still need some care in cooking and bathing and dressing but, yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Sorry, I thought I had brought you all up to date before. Here's to a better 2009 for all of us. Phyllis
Jo. I tried sending this to the entire list but it wouldn't send because Orams address was wrong. Do you have time to do the forwarding? Thanks >>
Yes indeed Phyllis is back; you can’t keep a good gal down. SOOOO happy to hear from you, Phyllis.
Now the thing is, anyone heard from or about Charlotte Orams, who is in Santa Rosa CA. I have her son’s email address, which I hope is still good, and I’ll email him to see what’s what.
Well, those hockey players aren’t going to see me until next season, darn it. But Darlyne, I’ve forgotten that hockey puck story – would you mind too much relating it again??? Please? That is for those of us whose memory doesn’t follow them around very well…goes off on tangents. 
BTW, Jacky, has your email changed? A message I sent to the GGOBITs yesterday went but yours bounced.
I love the non-professional wrestling; pro wrestling is such a farce. High school and college and, of course, the Olympics (although there is some doubt in my mind there) are so much more real. AND not rigged.
Having lived in the Bay Area for some 30 years, I am a BIG fan of San Francisco. I did “tours” for my mom after she and step-father Russ moved there when he retired. She would always say, “I never worry when Jo’s driving ca she never gets lost.” Uh – huh. I told everyone to whom she’d make that ridiculous statement that I may not have gotten lost, but I did get misplaced on occasion. We all laughed but she really believed. Having a good sense of direction helps too. I enjoyed those tour trips a lot – Ghiradelli (say gear-a-deli) Square, Chinatown, Japantown, the Presidio – marvelous. Takes a good week to hit all the good places. And longer than that to do the restaurants!!!
Good thinking by Darlyne to take all those ‘keep myself occupied’ things; I do the same thing. Plus I hate to have to rush to catch a flight. Trip to and from CO was non-stop .. and I LOVED that.