Wow, this is the last column of 2020! Aren’t we glad to see it go? I hope 2021 has lots of good stuff for us. I, for one, will be glad when we are about three more weeks into the New Year. That will hopefully mean I’ll be out of this pretty Frankenstein shoe and all healed, and I won’t be such a pain to my friends.
If there was an angel, that would be my good friend Danna.! She came again bearing good stuff — a six pack of Bud Light, complete with a lime. Then a half gallon of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream that I can’t keep my hands off. Then food. She brought me some of hubby Ricky’s famous grilled chicken wings. And to save me I can’t remember what all else. What a sweetheart!
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