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C: Christmas to Remember?

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How was your Christmas/ New Year holiday?  See if you can top mine…. Two weeks before Christmas and the arrival of six family members from half a continent away my dishwasher went out.  No problem.  I went to the Home Depot and purchased one, arranging for it to be delivered the next week—just in time for the boatload of dishes that fifteen people would make on Christmas Eve night. Disclaimer: The above is NOT my sink—only what I feared! One week before Christmas we had a windstorm that lasted at least 24 hours with straight-line winds that prevented me at one point from opening my car door.  Strong enough that they snapped our electric poles and caused me to be without power for four days.  Please recall that without power out here in the country, there is no water…pump, remember? This necessitated two nights in the local Hampton Inn so that I could be presentable in Court the next morning. It also meant that the dishwasher could not be insta lled. Fine.  We’d just do