The Goose is getting fat...

Oh, you can really sense it in the air now: Christmas is coming, and fast!  I can hardly wait to join my men and the Rosebud Inn for a special lunch before the show today!  They're coming to see the show this afternoon and then... our last show will be tonight!  We had a special cast gathering on Saturday at our place, and on Sunday we shared a light supper at the Hamm's.

It's still cold, but not as biting.  The once white, slick roads are now turning to chocolate ice cream, but the fields are still white-white, which I love, and now I see some blue sky being pushed over from a Chinook.  I'm fretting a bit about getting ready for our trip south and packing and wrapping here, but I'll have tomorrow for that.  Sigh.  I want to wrap now, but I must keep disciplined with household chores and tending to my vocal health for this final day.  In the bottom picture, that's Deb, then Kendra, then Paul.  That's Renita Hamm with Donovan in front of their tree, and Cari and Maki at our kitchen table.

My mouth is still quite dry every night with the forced air heating, even with a humidifier, and I'm getting tight in my back shoulders and neck.  --I'll be so grateful to get off that sloped stage with heels. My voice hasn't woken up today, but I'm sure the Christmas spirit in the theatre will carry our tired, sad cast along.

Last night, some stinker asked in my talk show "How are babies born?"  First I told this 20-something year old to call his parents, then wish them a Merry Christmas, then apologize for not calling more often, then promise to come home for Christmas and do the dishes, and THEN, after he's home and done his chores, to pull up a chair and ask his Dad for some of his time because he had an important question for him... (So I kinda chided the guy for being so cheeky.)  Then I mentioned that Danny (my son in the play) used to think that baby's came out of their mama's belly button.  And then I told the Creation story, where God made the water and the land and then the animals and then man and all was good, until he saw it was not right for man to be alone, so he made out of man a "womb-man"... and then it said it was VERY GOOD!  Everybody laughed and applauded at this, so there was no need to go on and say how they were to increase and multiply!