Shouldn’t it be easy to set up a Christmas dinner with a group of friends. Not when planning the dinner involves working with residents of a senior community. The way it works is that a group of ten people get together and plan dinner for a table of ten that will be set up in the community’s club house. This means, first of all, finding ten people you really want to eat dinner with. Some tables fill up quickly with those who are part of the cliches that usually form in such a place. Luckily I found a group who were not part of a cliche whose company I will enjoy. They also were those who would prefer turkey over the traditional prime rib. So up went a sign up sheet for this group. Everything was under control, right? Not so. The sheet mysteriously disappeared. The person in charge of Christmas dinner investigated and found the culprit, banishing them to a side room during the dinner. Now it was time for strategic planning: who would cook the turkey for this table, who would bring the mashed potatoes, etc. But it isn’t just the food that needs to be planned for. No, there also is the matter of decorations. From Christmas dinners past it is known that many of the cliche tables will be trying to outdo everyone else in the immensity of their displays. Happily, the non-cliche group decided to be minimalist and not try to play the game. Everything seems to be in place for a nice friendly Christmas dinner. But it’s still a couple of weeks until Christmas so you never know. More later on the big Christmas Dinner Project.
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