What’s 12 degrees and sunny ðŸŒž?

Answer: Christmas 2023!

This has been (thus far) a rather extraordinary winter…

Many have blamed this aberration on El Niño.  Whatever the reason, we’ll take it… ’cause it’s bound to change.

A beautiful day for dog walking…

Dogs in exploration mode…
Parting the Red pond…
A pair of selfies
Brown dog

Yes, that is sun…

Oddly enough, we had our Christmas gathering early this year (on December 10th) in case of inclement weather later in the yuletide season.

(Grandson Daniel was ill that day)

Musically… we are only a few days away from the new year.  2023 has been a difficult one for many people in many places.  We can wish, hope (and pray) that 2024 will bring… a ray of hope.

  This song was written in 1968 in the midst of the Vietnam War and on the heels of the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr (a difficult time on its own terms) but its heart is in the right place (even with sixties idiosyncrasies) and as relevant now as when it was recorded. Thanks, Rascals…