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-in another sign of my mis-spent youth, I amused J by knowing all the words to the first verse of "Deck Us All With Boston Charlie". (and then annoyed myself by not remembering the second verse past the first line, the one that goes "bark us all bow-wows of folly")
- we did have a White Christmas. It's been warming up ever since, and actually didn't drop below freezing last night, so the snow is mostly gone. When it was bitter cold and snow covered, the birds were eating a reasonable amount of food, but now that the snow is mostly gone, they're back to gleaning the fields.
- Xmas Eve service was decent. The church is still shrinking, both officially and in terms of how many people are on the rolls who just don't ever attend. I wish the Conference would decide on a style of pastor to send us -- we've had three pastors in the last five years, and they've all been radically different in style and/or theology. There's hardly any new people in the church, and the last two pastors (and COVID) have done a pretty good job of thinning out the people who aren't truly committed to the church. I hear that there will be some fairly fraught Council meetings in the new year, and I'm so very glad that I'm not going to be a part of that.
- the MRI that was scheduled for 3 Dec was cancelled on 30 Nov because the insurance co wanted an Xray first. So I got the Xray, but they'd already declined the MRI. My doc was hoping to get a peer-review appeal for the MRI sometime this week, but I haven't heard from her *or* the imaging clinic yet. I did get a referral to a specialty clinic, and have scheduled an appointment for March.
- we did have a White Christmas. It's been warming up ever since, and actually didn't drop below freezing last night, so the snow is mostly gone. When it was bitter cold and snow covered, the birds were eating a reasonable amount of food, but now that the snow is mostly gone, they're back to gleaning the fields.
- Xmas Eve service was decent. The church is still shrinking, both officially and in terms of how many people are on the rolls who just don't ever attend. I wish the Conference would decide on a style of pastor to send us -- we've had three pastors in the last five years, and they've all been radically different in style and/or theology. There's hardly any new people in the church, and the last two pastors (and COVID) have done a pretty good job of thinning out the people who aren't truly committed to the church. I hear that there will be some fairly fraught Council meetings in the new year, and I'm so very glad that I'm not going to be a part of that.
- the MRI that was scheduled for 3 Dec was cancelled on 30 Nov because the insurance co wanted an Xray first. So I got the Xray, but they'd already declined the MRI. My doc was hoping to get a peer-review appeal for the MRI sometime this week, but I haven't heard from her *or* the imaging clinic yet. I did get a referral to a specialty clinic, and have scheduled an appointment for March.
