Christmas Eve 2009

Just hours to go before Santa visits.

It's been a rough year for Chrispy, and hasn't it been for all? HPL sure had more than his share of rough patches.

Still, as Irving Berlin wrote and Bing Crosby kindly sung, "When I'm worried and I can't sleep, I count my blessings instead of sheep... // When my bankroll is getting small, I think of when I had nothing at all ... // And I fall asleep counting my blessings!"

Thank you for reading the blog this year (and thinking kindly of me). If you're so inclined, preserve hope and pray for peace for our world and for all your fellow blog readers.