The Nativity: From The Gospels of Matthew And Luke

Most Christmases, we begin our Christmas Day reading the Christmas story. Today, my wife handed each of us a brand new copy of Ruth Sanderson's The Nativity: From The Gospels of Matthew and Luke, c. 1993.

We each took turns reading one page. 

The pages are unnumbered, but the third page of text (about the sixth page):

In those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be enrolled. And all went to be enrolled, each to his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David, to be enrolled with Mary, his betrothed, who was with child.

Ah, yes, to be enrolled. 

Merry Christmas to all.

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A Note to the Granddaughters

I received a number of books for Christmas.

More on those later but it was a great Christmas as far as books go, including a biography of J. D. Salinger, a biography of J. Paul Getty, and incredibly, the autobiography of J. Paul Getty, written at the request of editor-publisher Hugh Hefner back in the 1960s.

The first chapter of J. Paul Getty's autobiography is as good a description of what is going on in the Bakken as any could hope to find. Nothing is new under the sun. 

This is my Japanese mother-in-law's lemon tree. It has been producing lemons at least since 1975 when I met my wife-to-be.  It produces lemons throughout the year. We get so many we give them away to local delis to be used in their recipes calling for lemons.