Pancakes for breakfast. Ray and I picked up Don and went to the Fellowship to sing with the choir. It was an easy but nice arrangement of Dona nobis Pacem and a 'sister song." "If I could have one wish come true, it would be peace for me and you..."

After the service, Don and I went to the Benevolence Market at First Presbyterian's new fellowship hall. It is very beautiful, with high wooden arches. I couldn't help thinking, though, that the money spent on it could have helped a lot of people. Meredith and Jonathan were at the AAHS table and I came by and offered to relieve them several times, but no. We were the last singing group on the schedule at 2:30, and the crowd had really thinned out by then. Meredith packed up about 2. "Why don't you leave everything and I'll bring it when I come?" "No, it's fine." Maybe I have some awful condition that I don't know about--leprosy? They also had Santa at the Shelter Saturday morning, so Ray won't be doing it. He can trim his beard now.

We were home a little after 3. I subscribed to Consumer Reports on line ($5.95 a month; I can unsubscribe at any time, just have to remember). There was a Black & Decker toaster oven, like the one I was thinking of getting used. I called the people who had posted it on craigslist and the model number was slightly different. We drove over there and bought it anyway. The woman who was selling it appeared to have 4 or 5 children and said they were going to be leaving in an RV next year. OMG. It looked practically new. We also stopped at Target and looked at them. They are all about the same size. Some are nicer than the one we bought. It will toast 6 slices of bread at once or heat a 12 inch pizza. I suppose you can make 6 cookies in it, or maybe a pie. But I don't think we'll be using it for our Christmas roast. We stopped at Publix, too, and bought a lot of groceries. It was pretty busy.

Vanessa had made beef stew, with one pound of stew beef from Glendale Farms at the farmers market and lots of carrots and potatoes. It was yummy and I had several slices of bread. There was also a pumpkin pie left over from the party Friday night. She whipped some cream and we had that while watching back-to-back MASH. I fell asleep pretty early.

Bitter cold last night, so Ray had to drain the solar water heater. A major pain.