Merry Christmas!

We hosted a few of the neighbors last night (this started three years ago with us serendipitously winding up at our next-door neighbors on Christmas Eve, and it's gradually accreting more and more of the neighbors). We wound up with so much leftovers that I am seriously not motivated to cook our usual quiet Christmas dinner for DH and myself.

Maybe I'll feel more energetic after a run.

Zen, thanks for taking in the kitty. That's basically the same way ex-H and I wound up with our Measle (spotted dog ) years ago. He just showed up in the neighborhood several days before Christmas, about four months old and obviously abandoned (way too clean and well fed to be feral, no response to ads we posted, and he was TERRIFIED of leashes and cars for about his first year with us, poor thing). "If that puppy is still hanging around on Christmas Day..." He was with us for 13 more years, and now he's a Christmas angel.