This week has not started out with a bang. Monday I worked, and it was real slow.  We did welcome Jim and Margit back from a
little vacation in Southern CA.  Tuesday, not much happened,  I picked up and repaired 3 bar Stools.  Dennis had a good night
won a $250.00 pull tab and some money off of the sweepstakes machines. Not telling how much he spent to win, but you can't win if
you don't play. Wed. same-o sam-o, dinner by the girls was very good. Started on making the door that we have, fit in the opening
where the window is.Have to section out 5 inches and change the swing.Thursday I have a Dr. appointment at @2:00pm so Joyce and
Mary did the Bingo.The way it sounds they had a blast.  Thursday night we had a Christmas party for the bartenders and other
volunteers. Had a great gift exchange and dinner from the Olive Garden. Friday night Mike and the gang fixed a great dinner.
sold out the steak and the ribs. The Queen of Hearts was a great hit. Ellen's name and number was drawn, #32 was her pick but the
8 of hearts jumped out not the Queen. Next week the reward increses to $2,600.00. The Jokers are worth $75.00. Sat J.J. came and
put the members list in the Computer so that I can print out address lables. In the afternoon the kids had their Christmas party,
complete with Mr.and Mrs. Santa Claus. Ellen brought her horses and my favorite her, goat (as well as radar, her dog).                                                                                                                                                                                        
The Kids really like the animals Thanks again ELLEN. The private party that was held Saturday night was a lot of fun
After their dinner they opened up the Hall so everyone could enjoy the Music. We had a couple of happy campers after they won big
bucks on the Donation Stations.
Sundays breakfast went on without a hitch as well as the dinner at 5:00pm. The Jam started out a little slow but picked up later
in the evening. That's about it for this week. If you're not doing anything during the week, come on down and have a Holiday
drink with us.                                                           
                                                                                                                           Larry

.I really don't know what I am doing with this Blog thing. It is going to be my goal to try and give a reveiw of what happened
during the previous week. Its probably not going to be politically, gramatically or any other way correct, just the facts as I see
them. The week so far has been just plain slow. Monday night they came and stripped and re-waxed the floors, they look great.
Tuesday we had a little excitment when some guys came in to remove our sweepstakes machines. It seems that they were sent to
remove all machines from the VFW posts, at the request of the state commander. We had the right to keep the machines, if we
wanted. It was a no brainer. They serviced the machines and were on their way elsewhere.
Wed.John had a great dinner. The turn out was lousy because a roomer was out that there would be no more dinners on Wed. nights.
Thursday we had a great free lunch and played our WAM BAM Bingo. Thursday was also Joyce's birthday and we had a surprise cake.
Thursday night was our monthly meeting, I missed it but understand there were several interesting subjects discussed.
Friday ALR provided the dinner. At 7:00 we did our Queen of Hearts drawing.  The name drawn was Phil Green the card # was 38.
The Queen was not there so the Reward will increase to $2,300.00 for this coming Friday night  As A special prize for being present
when the reward increases by a thousand dollars he won $100.00. Satuday we had a parking lot sale which was a Dud,
can't win them all. Sat. night ALR had their Christmas Party which was a huge sucess.  Bobby, Doug and Jeanie did one hell of a job in
the kitchen serving over 100 dinners in an hour and a half.Sunday ALR breakfast. Kind of a slow day