with Santa.

I am THAT kinda gal. I love to visit with and talk with Santa. My Mom used to love Santa, too. She’d look at the many Santa’s around town and coo “oh, now THERE’s a pretty Santa.” And my sister and I would agree with her.

We always loved to see the old gents with real whiskers and the expensive, nicely done suits - something you don’t see a whole lot of anymore. Although, there are a couple of fellas around who have the whiskers in the right color who could pass for twins, you know?

Yesterday I went on the prowl for my weekly interview and decided to find a Soldotna Santa. He was so much fun to speak with and quite in the mood for it, too. I even had my picture taken on his lap.

No . . . 56 (soon to be 57) is NOT too old to sit on Santa’s lap for a photo session! Besides, hubby moose egged me into it. He called it blackmail. I called it fun. As soon as I receive it, I will post a copy so you can see - yes, I promise.

It’ll actually be posted on the Neighbors website along with the article, which will be published Dec. 5th.

Hard to believe that it is nearly a year since I was named the Soldotna Neighbors columnist. I have a printed version of each of my columns - having a bit of trouble finding a scrapbook long enough to fit them without folding, though. I’m sure there must be something out there sized for newspaper clippings.

Today I got to go back and visit this Santa, taking him a copy of the article for his approval. He laughed his way through it and gave it a white-gloved thumbs up. Very cool.

Hope you are having a great weekend - not too stuffed still, are you?

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Posted: November 25th, 2006 under Moose Nuggets, NaBloPoMo.
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