Our friends have an adult daughter who was also attending the Black Tie at the Buff. In discussing where to pick a table, she told her mom that “the elderly” like to sit on the main floor… So, ok, here’s “the elderly”’s night at the Buffalo Dance Hall, transformed for the Gilded Masquerade Ball.
Being “elderly” in Silver City is proving to be a lot of fun. Take a look at the rest of the evening: Black Tie at the Buff – A Gilded Masquerade
And being adopted into the hearts of new friends here is proving to be, more than fun, embracing! We dropped by some friends yesterday to deliver Goodness Gracies – our small token of Christmas wishes. We anticipated chatting over coffee for a little while. What we didn’t anticipate was the reaction when I mentioned we hadn’t gotten a Christmas tree. Seems there aren’t Christmas tree vendors on every corner in town like back East. We’d stopped at Walmart to see what they had, and they had sold their last tree two nights ago. I don’t think I would have wanted to be stuck with the last Walmart Christmas tree; probably Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree was better looking. We could have purchased a $5 permit from the Forest Service and gone looking up in the Gila for a tree. But our town-mouse of a Volvo isn’t quite built to drive in on Forest Service (non-paved) roads the requisite distance in order to search for and cut our own tree. On hearing that we were thus far tree-less, our friends took us on a search in their neck of the woods—literally. We ended up cutting a very nice little piñon pine, about 5 feet tall and just as round. Brought it home and set it in the tree stand – PERFECT! We’ll decorate it on Wednesday, probably, since Nick has gone up to Albuquerque today-tomorrow to visit his brother.
But that’s the way people are here. We’ve been welcomed and adopted and embraced by almost everyone we’ve met. I don’t know if the character of Silver City attracts friendly, warm people or friendly, warm people have contributed to the character of Silver City. But we are grateful to be the recipients.
We hope your Christmas is friendly, warm and full of the magic of the season. And your Hanukkah full of lights. And your Winter Soltice brings you the peace and security of knowing that the world is not ending, and the days will get longer and brighter from here on to Spring. ss
Being “elderly” in Silver City is proving to be a lot of fun. Take a look at the rest of the evening: Black Tie at the Buff – A Gilded Masquerade
And being adopted into the hearts of new friends here is proving to be, more than fun, embracing! We dropped by some friends yesterday to deliver Goodness Gracies – our small token of Christmas wishes. We anticipated chatting over coffee for a little while. What we didn’t anticipate was the reaction when I mentioned we hadn’t gotten a Christmas tree. Seems there aren’t Christmas tree vendors on every corner in town like back East. We’d stopped at Walmart to see what they had, and they had sold their last tree two nights ago. I don’t think I would have wanted to be stuck with the last Walmart Christmas tree; probably Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree was better looking. We could have purchased a $5 permit from the Forest Service and gone looking up in the Gila for a tree. But our town-mouse of a Volvo isn’t quite built to drive in on Forest Service (non-paved) roads the requisite distance in order to search for and cut our own tree. On hearing that we were thus far tree-less, our friends took us on a search in their neck of the woods—literally. We ended up cutting a very nice little piñon pine, about 5 feet tall and just as round. Brought it home and set it in the tree stand – PERFECT! We’ll decorate it on Wednesday, probably, since Nick has gone up to Albuquerque today-tomorrow to visit his brother.
But that’s the way people are here. We’ve been welcomed and adopted and embraced by almost everyone we’ve met. I don’t know if the character of Silver City attracts friendly, warm people or friendly, warm people have contributed to the character of Silver City. But we are grateful to be the recipients.
We hope your Christmas is friendly, warm and full of the magic of the season. And your Hanukkah full of lights. And your Winter Soltice brings you the peace and security of knowing that the world is not ending, and the days will get longer and brighter from here on to Spring. ss
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