Hello, lovely patrons of the Little Grill Collective!
I hope that this message finds you all well and anticipating a few joyful and possibly much-needed relaxation and celebration days with friends and/or family ahead. 
This holiday season, we at the LGC are particularly thankful that you continue to support and patronize our business and other small local businesses in a time of widespread economic strain.  Because of you, we are all able to continue to do what we love every day.  Many of us who have been around awhile particularly enjoy watching your families grow and change.  Many of your children who were in middle school at the birth of the collective in 2003 are now in college!  We have watched some of you grow into adults and start families of your own.   
We are also very thankful for our own families.  In the past year, we have celebrated one marriage  and two births within our LGC family, with another birth yet to come in May.   It's been a big year!  We hope you have been blessed with as much joy as we have. 
I would like to take this opportunity to share with you our holiday schedule.  In order to give all of our owners and workers some time with their widespread families and to accommodate everyone's needs, we will be closing after brunch on Sunday, December 21, and reopening Tuesday, December 30.  We will be open our regular hours Tuesday (7 am-9 pm) and will be serving our all-you-can-eat Mexi night from 5-9 pm.  We will be open Wednesday, December 31 (New Year's Eve), from 7 am-2 pm, then closing early.  Thursday, January 1,  we will open at 9 am and serve breakfast ALL DAY, until 9 pm, so that no matter what time you get up after the previous night's festivities, you will be able to have your Dooley or Blue Monkeys.  After that, things will pretty much go back to normal, and we will be open when you expect us to be, and closed when you expect us to be. 
ONE more holiday announcement, and then you can get on with your day.  Check out our Very Little Store inside the glass display case at the front door.  Locally-produced Country Canner jams, Equal Exchange coffee, and locally-printed Little Grill T-shirts make excellent Christmas gifts!   This year we are also offering pocket-sized 2009 Slingshot organizers for just $5!  They are 4.25" x 5.5" (perfect for stocking-stuffers) and come in a wide variety of colors.  They are created yearly by the Slingshot Collective in Berkeley, CA, and include all kinds of cool features and facts not found in your everyday planner - radical/socially conscious events for each day, conversion charts,  monthly overview calendars AND individual daily spaces, and plenty of extra pages for notes, addresses, phone numbers, etc.  Check them out here. 
Okay, ONE more, then I promise I'm really done.  Check us out at the Harrisonburg Farmer's Market every Saturday morning.  Give us feedback about what you would buy, we're still in the early stages.  We'll have lots of crafts out this weekend, so come do some Christmas shopping!
Happy holidays to all and to all a good night! 
LGC