Good morning or good evening, wherever you may be, across the nation and across the world. It is just past 8:30 p.m. in "The City."

We just finished watching what some Chicago critics call the best Christmas movie ever, Die Hard, starring Bruce Willis. Oddly, I think that those critics are right.

Those same critics from Chicago say it isn't  Christmas until you see Hans go out the window and fall to his death. Be that as it may, we enjoyed Die Hard over a fine Christmas dinner as prepared by Mary. 

Vegan dressing, green bean casserole, mushroom gravy, and glazed tofu. It all came together very well. I was also treated to a couple of shots of Bushmill's Irish Whiskey. What's not to like?

Mmmmm! Clockwise, left to right: Green bean casserole, dressing, glazed tofu, and mushroom gravy.

We were fortunate that our snow removal service came earlier this morning and cleared our walkways and decks. I still had to go out and clear more as it continued to snow throughout the day, but it looks like we are over the worst of it, at least for now. 

We have a current temperature of 26° that feels like 13° with winds out of the west @ 16 mph. Those winds have necessitated the issuance of yet another Small Craft Advisory from St. Joseph to Manistee until 4:00 p.m. tomorrow. Tomorrow's high will only reach 31° under cloudy skies, albeit with only a 10% chance for additional precipitation. Tomorrow night's low will once again drop to 26° before we see 39° on Sunday accompanied by a 40% chance for rain/snow-showers in the evening. 

A perusal of my DTWS shows a barometric pressure of 29.24 and steady, while the NWS in GR is showing 29.84" and also steady. 

The sun will rise tomorrow @ 8:15 a.m. and set later tomorrow evening, @ 5:15 p.m. on what will be Boxing Day in Canada, the British Isles, Bermuda, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and some other parts of Europe. A short explanation is that the 26th of December was the day that the Alms Boxes were opened in churches and the contents distributed to the poor. A side note, coincidentally it is also St. Stephen's Day, or "The Feast of Stephen." The song Good King Wenceslaus about that day, was featured in the movie Love Actually, but here is another version as performed by the Irish Rovers. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5E8CXQwtrg

Tomorrow, things go back to the same old same old. Indoor chores, music, reading, crossword solving and whatever comes our way, to paraphrase the song by the band Steppenwolf, Born to be Wild.

Did you think I'd just mention that song? Wrongo bucko!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igvP806798U

Ciao.