Memphis Democrat January 10, 2001

After having a skeleton crew at Dancing Rabbit over the holidays, nearly everyone has come back for the new year. We all regaled each other with stories of our travels and showed each other the gifts we brought home from our families.

Sandhill hosted a New Years Eve party, with a feast and dancing. Alan, Kate and John who own Kirksville's new independent video store, One World, joined us for dinner and the party that evening.

We've been enjoying all the snow. On several occasions a group of folks went tobogganing, with our dog Baloo leading the way down the trail. It was fast and fun and we only had to watch out for the drop off at the end of the run, if we got going too fast.

We've had our first visitor of the year, a young women named Megen from Binghampton, NY.

Sandhill and few folks from Dancing Rabbit were featured on PBS' News Hour, for a long seven minutes. Our own Cecil was pictured showing off the Dancing Rabbit website.

Speaking of Cecil, he made a fabulous dinner of pizza the other night. He defrosted some of the pesto we made this summer and topped it with sauerkraut, tempeh and vegan cheese.

We have reinstated our book group. We are all reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry.

Sandhill had an all day game day, where some folks played board games for twelve hours straight. Jeffrey and our visitor Megen joined them. Ceilee, who was home visiting from college, won the overall day.

Don and Bekka, from Sandhill, housesat for our friends Dan and Nancy in Canton. They enjoyed having the place to themselves, and kept themselves busy feeding the dozens of pets and farm animals there.

Alline and I were on a trip over to Sandhill one day when we get stuck in a snow drift. We were trying to dig ourselves out with just our hands, when Charlie, our mailman, showed up. He pulled a shovel out of his truck and helped dig and push us to freedom. Thanks Charlie!