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Second Season Corner Gas DVD!  A Christmas gift from our daughter! After falling off the couch during the first season, getting the complete second season on DVD is indeed a treat!  What makes this a treat?  Being a Saskatchewanian by birth and choice, I get it!  I've met those who don't.  I watch the 1/2 hour show (or is that 22 minutes) and the humour just seeps into my funny bone.  I know what it is like to watch someone drive towards you for almost an hour.  I sympathize with gas station attendants whose life is enhanced by the lone car driving up to the pumps.  I laugh with the laisse faire attitude of a prairie town -- "if it doesn't happen today, tomorrow will come!" Humour that's clean - now that's fun!

Boxing day!  With our extended family celebrations happening on Wednesday, I headed off to the church office.  I was hoping to spend a quiet day writing a sermon. Unlocked the door to the church, walked to my office door, inserted the key, entered and turned on the computer.  The phone rang!  Word of a parishioner, Catherine MacDonald, who had died. If life were just doing what we planned, there would be no spice.  And without spice, the days soon become gray clouds of nothingness.  So, look around your life today and see what unexpected spices are flavouring your day!

Our Christmas festivities were low-key this year.  Our family was part of our Christmas service.  Then home for lunch and opening of gits.  A walk around the block and a Christmas supper.  Some TV and DVD's, good conversation, and off to bed.

So, the evening of the day actually begins the night before.  You can begin the day the day before.  Yesterday we were examing the world clock on a cell phone.  If you were in London right now you would be ahead of time.  Add to that that the sun is setting and you would already be in the next day while you are still in today.  Either you had a great Christmas, are about to have one, or will get in on two Christmases! If you followed that you are either brilliant, ahead of your times, or . . .