2020 Life Logs, Day 357: The Eve of Christmas Eve
Date: Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Weather: Mostly Sunny: High 42, Low 36 Degrees
Location: At Home in The Cottage, Falmouth, MA
Early this morning I got a call from my electric company saying that on the night of Christmas Eve and into the early morning of Christmas Day it is possible we will be getting extremely windy weather with possible wind gusts to 70 miles per hour. The recorded message was just a warning to be prepared for power outages. Plus it said they have cancelled holiday vacation for their crew to deal with possible problems. My first thought was of those workers. How said that their Christmas will be disrupted this way. The storm is not a nor’easter. It is coming from the south and temperature will start to rise tomorrow into the 50’s. On Christmas Day it might be close to 60 degrees and then back into the 30’s that night. I’m going to hope that the wind speeds will not be quite so strong and that we won’t have massage power outages. But we will just have to wait and see.
Today I picked Ollie up to bring him here to work on a craft project that is Christmas gift for his mom and dad. When Heather came to pick him up, I then made the final trip to the grocery store and came home and prepared dinner for tonight for the whole gang. My attempt to get everyone to recite at least one poem was only partially successful, but Heather and Jed really got into it and I will try again. Under pressure, Sam recited a Haiku he wrote a couple of years ago and Jonah uttered a couple of lines of his favorite poem which is just different ways of saying the word ‘avocado’. Ollie recited a bit of The Night Before Christmas and I shared the silly poem I made up for the occasion. We had artichokes for dinner and watched A Charlie Brown Christmas. Nice evening.
Tomorrow morning I have a coffee date with friend Jane Woodin. We will try having coffee outside the Cape Cod Coffee Café and hope that the rising temperatures will make that a pleasant experience. Afterwards, I will deliver some holiday bags of cheer to a couple of friends and then pick up the Goldpebbles for some last-minute Christmas shopping. Then tomorrow evening we will gather at Heather and Jed’s for our Feast of Seven Fishes celebration of Christmas Eve. I plan to come home to spend the night and return by 7 am on Christmas morning to see what Santa has brought. It might be so windy that I am blown there, but one way or another I will get there!
