Feast of the Nativity and St. Stephen's and St. John the Evangelist

First, I hope everyone had a wonderful celebration of the Nativity. We sure did.

I was going to remind you to listen to that great carol that is for yesterday's feast, "Everybody Must Get Stoned," (and a fat lip to the first person to point out that that is not really the title of the tune), but I got busy doing work that you will probably not appreciate, that no one will appreciate... oh. I have been informed that it is not considered correct to commemorate a martyr by adopting a martyr's pose. Darn. I had a whole list of things.

Anyway, today you are supposed to have your wine blessed. Don't forget.

Which brings me to the business at hand: our out of town guest has been persuaded to stay another day. The party continues. Serious blogging will resume tomorrow or maybe tonight if all these pikers call it in early and I still have energy (3 am two nights in a row, followed by 2 am! Yippeeee!).

So, please continue to have a merry Christmas, and don't you dare take down those decorations until Epiphany (I told you the day after Thanksgiving was too early!).