OH how I love Christmas! I also enjoy birthdays, anniversaries, Father's Day, Groundhog day or any other day that I can make an excuse up so my loved ones can show thier love and generosity!
Christmas definitely helps them exhibit the summit of their love for me!
I had no idea that I was even going to get a single toy for Christmas...(I left plenty of catalogs and other hints lying around for the last 3 months!) but how exciting it was for me to shake, nudge, measure, etc every box that was under the tree! When it was all said and done, I came away with a pretty amazing haul! (Oh my wife got her share of goodies too)
The big present was the One Way Bowl Coring System! A Square nosed scraper (which I am going to regrind to be a square ended skew) A One Way Curved tool rest for bowl turning A fancy Hardwood Tool Chest for my carving and hand tools A nifty carbide sharpener/burnisher A Badger Hair Finishing Brush A Skew Brush for solvents A stick of Black Ebony A stick of Olive from Israel A spear point handpiece for my woodburner A few other chunks of wood (by the way, I have a pretty large family - so one gift from almost everyone makes the list look big)
But the best gift of the year was and is...
My beautiful daughter - who is now 5 months old! She did not know what was going on, but she loved all of the ribbons, crinkly wrapping paper and all of the lights!
What a wonderful Christmas - not because of the things I got, but because of the love we all shared and the wonderful memories we have of this first Christmas for our daughter!
I hope you all also had a wonderful time making deposits into your memory banks and gathering additional toys!
Merry Christmas!
Ray Sandusky Brentwood, Tennessee, USA