Arrgh, the Grinch has been messing around with my ability to read and post on CITR.

Here's the belated info:

Heidieannie: Glad your goodies arrived intact, and glad you liked them. Great idea to take pix before sending…I actually thought of that too, just as the package was picked up and being carried to the truck! Ah well, maybe next year.

Cheryl S: Your package finally arrived, although it looked as if reindeer had used it to play a game of keep away. Nevertheless, the poinsettia hot pad and matching towel hanger are in great condition. This is the perfect year for these holiday accents for my kitchen. I'm having trouble getting around and can't get to the box(es) of holiday decorations. So, your sweet poinsettia is the only holiday item in the house this year. It is truely appreciated, thanks.

CITR Swappers: Well, all goodies have been sent and 86 percent have been delivered.

That means there are three swappers still waiting for their goodies: Kathi N, justdeborah2002, and C8ke Wench. Perhaps they've already received their goodies and just haven't been able to post. Let's hope so. . . 

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Joyous Holiday Season.  Please stay safe, if you're traveling.

Listen closely, you can barely hear the pipers piping in the distance. Sunday, the drummers will drum and go, leaving behind the memories of this holiday season.  We CITR swappers have had a good time this year. Thank you, Suzanne, for letting us borrow your website to get together with one another. Here’s wishing you the best with Sassafras Farm’s ‘close enough’ twelvetide days—including your maids-a-milking, calling birds, French hens, and nearby pear trees.

My personal thanks to Flatlander (Astrid) and Buckeye Girl for their help and support. And so, this year’s holiday swap comes to a close with these wishes for the entire CITR family: 

Bless the masters of the house, and the mistresses also
And all the little children that round your table grow.
The cattle in your stable and the dog by your front door
And all that dwell within your gates
We wish you ten times more.

Soal, a soal, a soal cake, please good missus a soul cake.
An apple, a pear, a plum, a cherry,
Any good thing to make us all merry,
One for Peter, two for Paul, three for Him who made us all.

Go down into the cellar and see what you can find
If the barrels are not empty we hope you will be kind
We hope you will be kind with your apple and your pear,
For we'll come no more a 'soalin' till this time next year.

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