It's a Shiloh tradition.  Our own invention.  Francis starts early, baking banana bread and putting it in the freezer.  Then at the end of the year (today) we walk through the neighborhood, giving the bread along with a gospel track to our neighbors.  It's a nice tradition.  A good way to meet people we might not otherwise connect with.  There were several new neighbors this year.  There always are.  We live in a transient neighborhood with many small studio apartments.  In addition we have several half finished large houses life Shiloh.  Good place for squatters to live.  Or refugees who are legitimate live-in guards.  And so we meet them and then spend the rest of the year waving at them as we go out and about.  One man (obviously an old timer) told us we were the only ones who give him a gift on New Years.  New Years is an important time of the year in the culture.  Actually more important than Christmas, though that is changing as the West slams into ancient traditions.  So we put smiles on fifteen faces today.  We like that.