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Christmas cards from Torch Lake
Posted on December 22, 2010
Torch Lake Views 
P.j. grath
December 22, 2010
You and your friends have spread smiles all around the bay today, Gerry. Lovely!
Gerry
December 22, 2010
Why thank you, PJ! You manage to spread some smiles over here, too! Happy merriness!
Patti Findlay
December 22, 2010
Dear Gerry,
It’s about time I wrote to you because you bring me so much joy! My morning starts each day with your posting . You light up my life! Thanks so much for what you do and Merry Christmas.
I live in Alden and would love to have you for lunch and tell you all our secrets. I’m a friend of Babs so she might be able to vouch for me.
Patti
Gerry
December 22, 2010
Ooh, ooh! Treats! And secrets!! Patti, I am so happy you got in touch. We’ll be right over. And, um (shuffles feet and looks embarrassed), it’s really nice to hear that you like TLV. It is my absolute intention to spread a little joy. Also the occasional tweaking when warranted, but that’s another post entirely, and couldn’t possibly apply to a friend of Babs. Although now that I think of it, that is a little worrying. Our Babs is a pistol. 😉
Linda Blair
December 22, 2010
Hi Gerry! I will vouch for Patti . . . I had been reading TLV for awhile and kept telling her she had to read because you and she are kindred spirits. Lo and behold, her husband got her an iPad and she has been hooked ever since. Patti is someone you need to know. She is an important part of Alden history (although rather recent as history goes). I will guarantee lively conversation and some good laughs!
Merry Christmas to you and thank you for your wonderful blog!
Gerry
December 22, 2010
Linda thank you. It’s always good to have Marketing Associates out there beating the bushes. I am deeply envious of Patti’s iPad. Not so much the appliance itself, for I am a bit of a keyboard freak, but that it works, which implies internet service.
Merry Christmas to you, too, and thank you for the kind words. (Blushes deeply and resolves to do some extra good posts.)
Fee
December 24, 2010
With less than 10 hours (on this side of the Atlantic) until the big day, thank you for your cheery pictures, your endlessly cheery blog (which is always good for a smile) and for sharing it all with strangers in the internet!
Merry Christmas, Gerry (and your readers all over the blogging world!).
Much love
Fee
xxx
Gerry
December 24, 2010
Why thank you, Fee! And thank you for your Scottish lessons and your wry take on the world. Have a very Merry Christmas–don’t fall off glamorous high heeled shoes!
Fee
December 24, 2010
The falling off the shoes bit is done at Hogmanay, next week!
Anna
December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas to you and yours and friends!
Gerry
December 24, 2010
And to you and Preston and Moppet as well, Anna!
isathreadsoflife
December 27, 2010
Beautiful twinkling across the lake ! Happy New Year from the Alps 🙂
Gerry
December 27, 2010
Thank you! And to you as well.