Christmas Eve

I’d like to begin my Christmas post with thanks to all of you for your comments on the blog, as well as your emails and texts.

I don’t respond to the comments for technical reasons – the program makes me log in every time, and it is a needlessly hinky process.

But I read every one, and I appreciate them all.

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I’m glad we decided to stay in Key West for a month.  It’s given me a chance to relax, catch up on some deferred maintenance, and simply enjoy the weather.

There’s a cold front coming in tonight, however – it’s supposed to be the coldest weather Key West can expect this winter – Christmas Day will be a high of 65 and a low of 54, and blowing 30 knots from the north..  Not bad by Pennsylvania standards, but a big change for Key West, where it has been mid-70’s every day.

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Colder weather notwithstanding, I have to say that there’s something “off “about listening to the radio station playing “Frosty the Snowman” in Key West. It’s just wrong for so many reasons! A creche would look more appropriate amidst the palm trees…kind of like Bethlehem looked.

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Anyway, it’s still Christmas.  Like many of you, I’m planning to go to church tonight – a beautiful church called The Basilica of St. Mary of the Sea.  We passed it on one of our walks around Key West.

I am thinking of and praying for every one of you.  And I am wishing you a Blessed Christmas and a happy and HEALTHY and BETTER New Year.

Merry Christmas from me and Guinness! WOW, I still look exhausted!