<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Good luck with your recovery and additional surgery, Gary. Sometimes it feels like recovery is a fulltime job! I get to have surgery on Dec 1 also....bilateral hernia repair...should be fun😬<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think I volunteered to host Men's Group on December 20th. Is that right?<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 7:51 PM Gary Hamilton via men <<a href="mailto:men@fuusm.org">men@fuusm.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg2852541768380234696">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Hi all,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Normally I would help coordinate the outside holiday decorations with the Men’s Group at our church, but I am unable to do so this year. I am recuperating from a knee revision
surgery with complications and am facing an Achilles tendon rupture repair surgery on December 1.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">I received an email from Martha McGovern this morning that the decorating is planned for this Sunday, December 3. She wrote: “</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Jane,
Kat & I can have materials laid out for easy access. We are planning for a decorating work session right after the worship service on December 3. (Of course, there will be tasty “fuel” for the work. )”<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Traditionally, we have run garland along the top of the fence and strung the lights along it. There does need to be a break in the garland and an electrical connection for the
lights at the gate to the outside handicap lift. The Men’s Group purchased new strings of lights last year that are in individual boxes (the old lights were rolled on circular spindles). Wreaths are placed on the posts and ribbons added. In the past, Darryl
has provided and installed extension cords with an outdoor timer to provide the electricity for the lights. It is truly a group effort, but it can usually be done under an hour if we have a half dozen men working on the project.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please consider staying after services on Sunday and help with the decorating.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Gary<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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