This year we had eleven people for Christmas dinner.  Jen cooked pork tenderloin which was delicious,  and twice baked potatoes with lots of cheese and butter, but she was disappointed after all her efforts failed to produce “the centerpiece of the table.” Peter, the carnivore, barked, “How can a potato be a centerpiece?” Maybe Adam will weigh in on that one. She also cooked asparagus, while Peter, Emma and Kate, brought rolls, desert,  soups, cheese and other hors d’oeuvres.  Goose. who’d already eaten  dinner at home at 2 PM,  joined us, and Jerry and Daryl Sullo arrived bearing gifts and Sullo’s Wine, vintage ’07.  Jen’s daughter’s,  Hilary and Hannah, just home from Spain and Switzerland, filled out the table. After the engorgement, Cortney, Kathy, Sarah and maybe others appeared with their own holiday offerings of cookies and fudge.  Peter and Emma left early, Kate spent the night, and I sawed my first log at about 10 PM with the party shaking the walls. The next morning Matthew asked, “Didn’t we wake you?”