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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
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Subject: Re: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2024 10:48:55 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-12-21, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> We had about 4" of snow between yesterday and this morning. I actually 
> had to go and shovel the driveway. It was bordering on enough snow to go 
> back to the barn to get the snow blower.

No snow here, but it's cold.  Yesterday at dinner time I went out --
with no more gear than a flannel shirt -- to take out the trash,
get some bird seed out of the garage, and refill one of the bird
feeders.  On my way back into the house, I looked at the thermometer;
it read 25 F.  No wonder I felt chilly.

A nearby weather station is reading 6 F right now.  We're starting
a warm-up, though.  No white Christmas for us.  The newspaper tells
me that since 1940 we've had a white Christmas only about half of
the time.

> This afternoon I made the cranberry sauce. I was tasked with making that 
> for Christmas dinner at my brother's.

Tomorrow I'll make the fruit salad for Christmas breakfast.  Tuesday
afternoon it'll be the breakfast casserole.

> My wife is trying to clean up and put up Christmas decorations but we 
> didn't make much headway because we had several neighbours stop by with 
> gifts and ended up chatting a lot.  I find it hard to believe we are 
> only four sleeps from Christmas Day.

We put up the tree on November 30; that's the only decorating we do.

Hard to believe here, too.  I feel extra busy this year.  Time to
slow down and watch some Christmas movies.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton