Editor:
I want to thank all the neighbours who have been asking me if I was putting up the train this year.
I'm sorry, but I'm getting too lame to be kneeling down placing the village, track, train, merry-go-round, carol singers, ice-skaters, swimming swans, marching band, miscellaneous people and 600 or so trees.
The train has been running on at least 100 feet of G gauge track through a village, around a lake, across a trestle and bridge through a tunnel, up and over a small mountain every Christmas season for 16 or 17 years, on our deck facing the river walk in Queensborough for all to see.
My schedule each year was to have it going by the first week of December and have it running until Boxing Day.
Anne had always provided one ot her now tamous shortbread cookies for onlookers.
I have passed it on to a nice family trom White Rock. The father says he'd love to look after it and he said he has room to show it.
I know I'll miss it after so many years, but not this year, It's almost a relief that I'm finished with it.
Ross Hood, New Westminster
