It's been a bit of a break since my last posting. There's a lot to do before Christmas.
Yes, I've been shopping... which has always gone against my grain since it seemed as if I was just doing more work after I got out of work. Now it's not so bad. My wife has been conditioned to believe that I won't behave myself if I go shopping with her. So now it is amazement and awe when I just amble along the aisles and look over all of the stuff I won't buy. She just has this big grin when we leave a store.
I've also kept busy making homemade pastries that my Armenian grandmother taught me when I had first started dating my wife about 40 years ago. We make it now to send to the rest of the family. My sons show up to help me... but I think the eating part is the primary motivator. It's a pretty simple recipe: dough the thickness of a sheet of paper, melted butter, chopped walnuts all crumpled up like an accordian and baked to a light brown color and then topped with honey. Who needs shopping?