Thanks for thinking of the crocheters too! -Babka

Ho Ho Ho. Good one! And a Merry Christmas to you - and all the THS visitors. Jane2 here (Janey on knitting blogs)

What a delightful rendition ...... ;-) It's been awhile since I've had a crowd in. Take Mario Batali's advice and wear Crock's, and my advice -- do as much ahead as possible. We had our low-keyed Christmas and our granddaughter's 18th birthday celebration in Tennessee. Left on Friday and got back last night to 13-inchs of snow, and wonderful neighbors who had our drive cleared by the time we got back. I think we'll be clearing their drive the rest of the winter to pay them back :-). Our son has the flu, so we'll hopefully see him for New Year's Day and hold off on Christmas Dinner until then. Since we'll be free on Christmas Day, we'll volunteer at the annual FREE Christmas Dinner a friend of my parents has done for the community for 30-years, and deliver meals to shut-ins. With all this snow, there is sure to be more requests for deliveries than normal. You just never know how things will turn out, do you :?) Merry Christmas everyone. -Grainlady

Wonderful! I kinda suspected the power outage was a hoax -- but a very good one! (Today you'd have to 'accidentally' lose the kids' cell phones too.)