The cats and I spent a quiet day curled up in front of the fire place. Although the outside temperatures rose to just above freezing with the south southwest breezes, we had a little of this and a little of that as precipitation. Snow, sleet, freezing rain and then rain fell for much of the afternoon and into the evening hours. There wasn't much in the way of accumulation insofar as the snow and freezing rain went. The regular rain washed it all away and warmed the surface of the deck and driveway. The warm air blowing from the fireplace did alleviate the feeling of rawness that the precipitation and mid-30s temperatures created.
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Spent some time on the phone speaking with my wife and daughter in New Jersey and then got a nice phone call from my son who is currently visiting his in-laws in Chicago. All is well, all is calm and all is bright.
Jessica is doing well in her Computer Science classes and working behind the scenes at the Apple Store where she likes it. (No direct contact with the customers, you know.)
Rick has been busy with the landscaping contractor for which he works despite it being the off season and weekly concerns about having enough to do. Hanging Christmas lights for home owners has taken up some of the slack but he says things should be looking up in a two or three months when spring arrives in Portland.
DIL Sandy is busy as a beaver at the law firm for which she works in Portland. Her nearly 12-hour days, six days a week are tiring, however.
And Terry is about partied out! She'll stay in NJ until Sunday so she can pick Mom--who has been to Half Moon Bay, CA for the holiday--up at the airport late Saturday night. (That way Jess won't have to worry about having to do so and still get to work early Sunday.)
Me? I'm watching cats snooze, flicker flames in the fireplace, big fat snow flakes come hurdling to the ground and watching football on TV. (Just don't ask me how I'm doing on my bowl picks, okay?) I'll wait 'til Terry gets home to open any presents.
I hope you had a very Merry Christmas.
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A Very Merry Christmas to you and your wifie too!!
A nice quite day here in N.Idaho Panhandle.
I am home alone as well Joated tending the animals. The wife and kids went to spend two days with the inlaws and Frank is getting in some late season deer hunting.
JDP
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