Cookie hangover today

Ah me, sweets are something I usually have sparingly but hey, it's Saturnalia! I'm sure the gods regarded sugar and butter as nectar and ambrosia. Check out this link for some pagan fun: http://www.godchecker.com.
Audrey was involved in a "cookie exchange" - a concept straight out of The Nutcracker , Land of the Sweets, right? Everyone bakes six dozen cookies, ( Audrey made chocolate thumbprint cookies with a caramel center!) then they exchange so everyone winds up with six different kinds of cookies of a dozen each. So yesterday, during the tree decorating and the carol singing , I had to taste em all. Oh baby, it was wonderful! And surrounded by sqoosh-bucket doggies too. We decked the halls with Holly ,and Buggee too.
Re Stinky's photo; he is in the shadow which is hiding the gray, but we prefer to say "silver".
Here is an across-the-table-shot: sunset on the Med in Tel Aviv. And yes, children stare at him thinking he's Santa (the rosy cheeks don't hurt either) He likes to say that he got all white while we were in Israel not unlike Moses when he ascended the mountain and returned all white haired. I think it was the threat of being recalled to the army, which in a deliciously ironic twist, wouldn't even want him cause he's too old.
I'd better go eat something healthy