Marilyn and I slept in, which seems fair for our first day of vacation (!!!). Then we had errands to run, including getting Marilyn a new watch and some gloves (she's needed new gloves for the last couple of years, as her gloves have had holes in them...). So we braved the Woodburn Company Stores, going to both Fossil (for the watch) and Wilson's ( Read more... )

I finished up the end of year Appeal eNewsletter for the festival today. It's almost ready to go first thing in the morning. By 'almost ready' I mean that I haven't yet (sigh) done the text-only version -- and that needs to happen before it can be sent out. But the banner got done, I did some color tweaking and created an animated snowflake bar and ( Read more... )

The TOY DRIVE was a huge success -- we had tons and tons of toys! And the morning coverage on TV was really good ( Read more... )