You folks are ever cranking it up a notch. As always, I enjoyed reading all of your offerings. A couple of especially clever touches are bigbad’s use of stream and log and peterm’s emptied urinal. As exquisite as mattrom’s herb mixture is, I’m going with Skye’s guy’s
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for its brilliant economy and lovely surface read.
Here’s a postcard from New England:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpyjUbkr0HA
Merry Christmas to all!