[Magdalen] calendars

[Judy Fleener]

I usually receive those, too.  I haven't this year, only the wonderful
calendar with pictures of Canadian churches from Sheila Ketler for which I
am very grateful.

On Sun, Dec 27, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> On 12/25/15 8:43 AM, Judy Fleener wrote:
>
>> Being a cheapskate I wait until after the 1st of January to buy calendars,
>>
>
> For some reason, I'm on the mailing lists for a _bunch_ of charities.
> Charities I've never heard of, much less ever given a cent to, send me
> snail mail appeals monthly or even more often.  Starting in August, a lot
> of them send me calendars for the next year.  They're too beautiful (and
> also useful) to throw away, but I only need one or two out of the many
> dozens.  I usually pick Red Cloud Indian School (cute kids in pow-wow dance
> regalia, done by a superb photographer--a Jesuit whose hobby is photography
> packs up and travels many miles to take the pictures on Dance Picture day,
> and the kids wear their finest), and Clear Creek Abbey in Oklahoma
> (traditional Benedictine: all the photographs look very medieval, except
> for the occasional one that has something like a farm truck in them, but
> they do most of their work by hand with old-fashioned tools and animals,
> not machinery).  I haven't bought a calendar for money in many years.  The
> surplus dozens I take to the Post Office and leave on the lobby desk, with
> permission from the Postmaster (a cousin).  They all go away quickly.
>
>
> --
> Sibyl Smirl
> I will take no bull from your house!  Psalms 50:9a
> mailto:polycarpa3 at ckt.net
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan