Christmas in October, What?

I have about 45 minutes before I leave to pick up four lady friends. We are all in a Red Hat Society group called the Mad Hatters of Northwest Indiana. I would imagine that most folks that read this know what the Red Hat Society is. If not, Google it.
The main requirement of this group is that you have to be over 50 and mostly nuts. I am not the youngest in the group but in second place. Our youngest has not made it to an outing yet. Tonight it is my fault because I forgot to tell her. Sorry Jean. Tonight is our Christmas party. What, why you may ask? Florida is the reason for the early party. A few of our group have winter homes in Florida and leave before the snow flies here. That means they will be gone before a December party is held. I brought up the proposal that we do it now so that everyone can come. Everyone seemed to agree. So tonight is the night. We are going to a joint called Popolano's about 30 miles from my house. Since I now drive the Mafia funeral van, all black with tinted windows, I volunteered to take a load.

Today I removed the kid car seat, vacuumed out the salt and white hair out. Salt from an occasional french fry and my hair, I shed like a mountain goat. I now have all of the seats up out of the floor and we are ready to hit the road. Figuratively speaking I hope.

There will be a photo on my next blog of these wonderful ladies. Yes we are nuts by we are also ALWAYS there for one another in times of need. This year there will be three empty seats at our table. Since our group started we have sent three gals on to heaven to start a chapter there. The first was Trudy our Jewish member. Then there was Miss Fran and Flo. Miss Fran was confined to a lovely Christian living facility most of the time, but loved to go out with us when we went to dinner. Fran liked her Sangria and she was not to have it in her room at the facility. As for Flo, there is not enough time to tell you about Flo. She was one of the hardest working women I have ever known and I met her when she was 80+. And how God put such a big heart in a little package I will never know. Both Fran and Flo were in their 90's. Trudy was way too young, in her 60's. They were something and we all miss all three of the ladies very much.

Oh, did I mention that we all wear purple clothes and red hats for these outings? Did I mention that we wear red hats and purple clothes, we do.

Well it is about time to go pick up my precious cargo. More tomorrow and pictures.