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I want to join the others in thanking Jim and Caroline for graciously opening their home to the club and throwing the best party of the year! I know they, and Jim's parents, put an awful lot of work into preparation for the party in the last few weeks.

And super kudos to John too! One week ago today John suffered a heart attack at home and was rushed to the hospital (scared the heck out of Nancy!). Monday afternoon the doctors implanted a pacemaker. He took a lot of good natured ribbing yesterday and we don't really believe he has an app on his iPhone to control how fast his heart beats (some didn't even know he had a heart). John was still pretty sore yesterday but he was our hero and broke through the pain to prepare a super brisket that everyone loved. Hopefully somebody got a picture of it…the piece of meat looked like it was most of the cow!

Club members proved to be very generous and brought enough to fill Santa's bag with toys and that's great. I know Jim will be posting a picture of that today (he's moving a little slow this morning).

I'm glad you guys from Tampa were able to come down and renew friendships and make new friends in SWFL. It was great having you with us yesterday!

Everyone I talked to had a very enjoyable day yesterday and nobody went home hungry.

Thanks again Jim and Caroline and John!

Merry Christmas to All!


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