It's Sunday and the Claus hit's 10,000...

Hi there -

Today was to be a quiet day (lol) but somebody forgot to tell my public.

We had 445 photos taken of Santa with his public. We also had a few dogs, and one cat. Let's start with the cat - it was a big kitty that wanted to snuggle into Santa. I had a heck of a time trying to get it to face forward so we could get a photo, but I won. The dogs were as follows - a teacup Yorkie (really cute!), a couple of Multi-Poos, three Black Labs, two Yellow Labs, a Golden Retriever, and a Pit Bull.

Now for those of you that keep track, with us doing 445 photos today we are over 10,000 photos taken for this season so far. We are at a season high of 10,421, and we have four photo days to go. Plus, we are over last year's total for the year, which is 10,345.

So yep, we have a slow year this season, so far...lol

We do have some not-so-happy stuff this time of year as well. Today we had to say good-bye to elf Tasha. She was recalled to the normal duty station so she is done in Harrisburg for this year. And tomorrow, elf Cindy will also leave for her normal duties. It is always sad when elves leave as we never get the group together as a whole until next year. But we still have a Pole to run, and elves stationed all over the world to report on what's going on.

As a reminder to all the watcher elves, the old lists are shredded and sent to central heating on Christmas Day. All lists start new on December 26th of each year.

I know how much we all like pictures, so I am sharing three tonight. The one with the hat is of elf Courtney who was given that hat as a gift. Kind of cool! She loves it. The other two are of the snow AFTER the plows went through for the last time. I will no longer complain about the roads and plowing at the Pole...

SO as everybody is aware, this is an extreamly busy week here in Harrisburg, PA. I have 10+ hour day's until Christmas Eve. Four days, but who's counting.... I know everybody who wants a gift.

Good night,

Santa