Good morning on a dull cloudy morning. As bright and beautiful as it was yesterday —- it is 180 degrees off of that today. The temperature is warmish at 55 degrees although that is the predicted high for today. It appears that we have had some amount of light rain because the sidewalks are damp. We are reported to be getting as much as an inch and a half  by tomorrow afternoon and then it is supposed to turn sharply colder just in time for Christmas Eve. The chances for a white Christmas though are extremely low.

Ms. Kate and I finished baking the springerlie cookies yesterday morning and ofcourse they are delicious. She still has one more kind of cookie that she wants to make; I’m not sure what that might be. She wanted to make some phefferneuse cookies but forgot to pick up eggs while we were at the grocery store yesterday. Now she’s decided that it is time to only do one more other kind of cookie. I reminded her that cookies, while are Christmas tradition, —- can be made any time of the year.

Last night we had a late night date and went to the 10:00 pm movie to see the latest Star Wars movie. It was really good and worthy of seeing again. I’m sure when it comes out on DVD we will buy it. I thought that perhaps there might not be anyone else in the theater at that time of noight but thre were maybe a couple of dozen other folks that were in attendance. I had to laugh though when the movie was over and we were leaving. There was a group of young people standing around discussing characters and things that happened in the movie like it was all real. It was “Nerd Heaven”.

Today Ms. Kate and I are meeting friends Bob and Brenda and Andy for our monthly “schrooms & beer” out at St. Joe. Inn for lunch. It has been almost a year since Bob’s wife, Ms. Georgia Ann, passed away and this will be their first Christmas without her. He sure misses her, as do we all, but I think he has done a good job of adjusting to his grief.

Tomorrow Julie, Jim and the pups come over for the weekend. We will be celebrating Christmas and Ms. Kate’s birthday. I am so blesssed that fifty six of her seventy years, she has been part of my life. God is good.

That’s it for today. I hope you have a great weekend and a glorious Holy Spirit filled Christmas. Stop and listen —- you just might hear the angels sing. Peace