On Christmas Day, Ruby Hoffman cleaned out her refrigerator and gave all of her leftovers to her daughter, Kristi Hinkle. Ruby was expecting to spend New Years Eve in Oklahoma. It seems that somehow she isn't going to Oklahoma after all, and so asked Kristi to bring her leftovers back. Kristi had to inform her mother that she was too late in asking, as all of the leftovers had been eaten. The good news is that if Ruby comes to the Ponderosa for the special communion service put on by Rev. Jerry Hinkle of the Holabird Church of Universal Life, she may get some leftovers to take back home with her.

Keeping a promise he made to Tracy Lennick, Jerry Hinkle played a game of Texas Hold 'Em Poker. At least that's what they told him it was. It was Jerry, Tracy, and Josh Peterson. The very first hand set the stage for the rest of the game. Tracy thought he had the winning hand, and bet it all. Too bad for Jerry that they were not playing for actual money, because he had the winning hand. Nobody was more surprised than Jerry about that. Since Tracy was the dealer, Jerry thought for sure he'd have some way of stacking the deck or dealing from the bottom. The amazing thing was that everyone was sure Tracy had a full house to Jerry's three of a kind.

It is possible that Tracy let him win. Jerry isn't sure what took place even now. " I don't know, and I still don't understand, how those Texans play poker," Jerry was heard to say. "But it sure worked neat for me, Bubba"!