I wrote a whole post about the teacher who was shot by a six-year-old student in Newport News … then deleted it.

Suffice it to say that teaching runs in our family … as does attendance at James Madison University, where our granddaughter Logan is a freshman …

I had just started a new project with some cloth leftover from a JMU quilt that was made for Logan by a friend of her mom’s … it has now taken on new meaning …

On a more positive note, I was quite proud of myself for putting together a calendar of Don’s paintings as a Christmas gift …

He now has it hanging on the wall in his studio and I have one above the ironing board in my workroom, along with three previous years of calendars from Debbie Carroll and last year’s calendar from Saskia …

I used Shutterfly and was able to add family birthdays and Full Moon days to the more traditional holidays for 2023 …

I may post a picture each month, much as Nancy did with her calendar last year. But in the meantime, here are the images I used …

And I laughed as I just now realized I didn’t even use all the pictures I took of Don’s artwork. Which is actually okay … at the rate he’s going, there shouldn’t be any problem having enough material for a 2024 calendar.