I spent Boxing Day morning cleaning up after Christmas dinner, and the afternoon at the BIL's house for another rich dinner, this one featuring ham. Consequently, the house is pleasantly neat and all I want to eat today is toast and tea. Maybe an orange, but that's it.

Ontario has returned to lockdown, so recreational shopping and socializing outside the immediate household are off the agenda until sometime in late January. The churches have closed again, and restaurants that are actually open are doing take-out meals again. People who live alone are allowed to "bubble up" with one other household (for me, the BIL and his family). We're back to where we were in March, except now I'm mostly on my own.

Also, winter is back, with a major dump of snow that the town crews are still struggling to remove from the main streets, let alone suburban areas like this neighbourhood. So the world is very, very quiet.