Hope you don't mind Susan that I am including this on your post. Today, I took pictures of this Christmas topiary that this man maintains year around. This is a live, ivy topiary and as you can see, quite large. During December, he always adds the red, ribbon bows around the dog's neck. I love driving by that street and seeing it year-around! MERRY CHRISTMAS!

As a veteran of the "Christmas Party Planning Committee", you have no idea how close to the truth this is. LOL I swear to you the following happened to me. Several years ago,the committee had arranged to have our departmental Christmas luncheon at a Dallas restaurant reknowned for its buffets. Their buffet had everything: seafood, meats, salads, every side dish imaginable, breads, deserts etc. We figured there would be something for everyone, and no one could possibly complain. (I should add that this was an expensive luncheon buffet and that the company was picking up the entire tab.) I had someone come up to me and say they were not interested in the buffet and would like to see a menu. The buffet WAS the menu!!!!!! There was nothing on the menu that wasn't on that buffet. In addition, the food on the buffet was fresh, hot and guarded by glass shields, plus there were attendants everywhere! I can laugh about it now, but at the time it was really hard to hold in my frustration. You can try so hard to please people and do everything right, but there will always be someone who is unhappy ( and will probably be vocal about it.) Marilyn

Hi Judy, so good to see you posting again. I hope Greg's burns are healing well. You didn't say how you are doing? I believe you were having problems with your legs. Hope that is better. Ashley is quite a grown up beautiful young lady now. I'm glad she has a job that she loves, and hope she will stay with it. Nice looking young man, too. Don't be stranger here now. Sue

Yes, I got one from her, as well. Thank you so much, Audrey. This was so nice. Another "nice" award......years ago when this site went to pay, someone paid my fee for me. I often think of how pleased I was.