January 1-8, 2023

A better start to 2023—it could not be!

*Celebrating bubblies with our neighbors on New Year's Eve

*Receiving a package in the mail containing a puzzle with a sibling challenge to be the first to put the puzzle together—the puzzle being the famous 2008 reunion picture of 10 siblings with t-shirts saying, “Mummy likes me best!”

*A breathtaking mountain sunrise from our front door in the morning

*First hike of the season with our hiking buddies

*Celebrating 80 years young with Fred (and our hiking buddies)

*Receiving frankincense (just before Epiphany) from our world traveler hiking buddy, Carla

*Volunteering at Camp Hope for Wittara—making lunches for the homeless (demand has doubled with the immigrant influx)

*Spending a Saturday morning at the Market—doing people watching

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