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Love the mugs! Beautiful!

I'm hoping to make the most of the go go years! I know not everyone gets the go go years as we've painfully learned. I hope all the memories of the go go years sustain me during the no go years if I'm lucky enough to have them.

You guys sure know how to find lots of good entertainment! Of course you are in the "Go-Go" retirement years (vs the "Slow-Go", followed by "No-Go").

Chilly but sunshiny Sunday. The weird paradox of winter in Northern Town, that cloud cover usually means a warmer day, and the brighter the sky, the more likely it will be bone chilling cold. Also the particular paradox of my own home: in the summer the leaf coverage from our trees is so heavy, I have to turn on the lights in the kitchen sometimes. During the leafless part of the year, sun just streams into the house. So despite the promise of great cold out there, I do enjoy the sunny days. I didn't get to enjoy this sun spectacular very often when I was working. Unless it was a sunny weekend, I was leaving the house in darkness, and returning as the sun was sinking.

The concert was spectacular, as it usually is. It is smart, witty, full of surprises and stellar talent, with a few traditions that always appear. Like a dancing Satan who comes out during God Rest ye Merry Gentleman during "to save us all from Satan's power" The crowd always goes wild. They also sing a song Snow Day which is kind of an anthem here lyrics:

It's coming down
Snow lays on the chainfields
There's a blessing on the ground
It's coming down

with of course, fake snow. Finally it ends with a disco dance party. When we stepped out of the venue into the theater district, snowglobe flakes were falling. Very festive with all the theater marques flashing and the street full of people leaving our show, and Phantom of the Opera at the theater across the street. This may be our 8th year at this concert, we can't quite remember.

Next weekend we have a more Christmas Pops music concert with the Minnesota Orchestra at 2pm. Afterwards, we are driving to Duluth MN to stay overnight. Monday we will tour a mansion called Gleensheen on Lake Superior. We've seen it many times, but never decorated for Christmas, because, well, working. After we tour that, a late lunch, then at 5pm, we will go to a light exhibit called the Bentleyville Lights down by the harbor. How long we will spend there, since it's outside, depends on whether the temp is subzero or not. Both of these are attractions I wanted to see for just ages, but are crazy busy and often sold out on the weekends. Yeah retirement!

Today is very low key. I've enjoyed tea, reading my papers and eating left over Risotto I made on Friday. DH is watching the Vikings, who seem to be having a very bad season. He is hopeful they can win today, because apparently the team they are playing is also having a very bad season. Later, I am going to the store to buy a few things to make chicken enchiladas for dinner, which should feed us for a few days. Tomorrow we will go for our coffee date. It's been two weeks because last Monday we were at my parent's house. I'll also start baking Christmas cookies. I am happy for our mix of routines, traditions and new events.

Very nice!