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Christmas morning brought an absolute downpour.  After everyone awoke and shook off their hangovers, we continued to open the remaining presents.    Our Christmas morning movie was The Shawshank Redemption, an interesting choice for the day.  The rain continued unabated and threatened to cancel our Christmas Day barbecue.  In a bit of swamp engineering, I threw a few piece of loose plywood over the open porch and created for us the perfect locale to grill.  For such action I was anointed the grillmaster and gladly took the job.  Our feast included burgers, brats, hot dogs, shrimp kabobs, veggie sausages and burgers, and potatoes in tin foil. 

The sun finally cleared in the afternoon and gave us a nice Christmas afternoon.  Without the cold weather and snow it just doesn't seem like Christmas. 

What I Learned Today:  When it comes to holidays there are two kinds of people; 1) those who are very steeped in tradition and must recreate the experiences they had as children and 2) those of us who are happy with just a meal and tree.


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