I hope all of you who have family activities or personal traditions had a great morning. A lot of theatrical movies have big attendance on xmas day, and it seems there are sometimes football games. I'm not into either of those, but I think I'll stream a couple of the holiday movie recommendations I read recently from Liz the Squeak.

The sockeye has brined and is now on plates in the fridge while the surfaces dry a bit to prepare it for smoking this afternoon (gifting it tomorrow). Red potatoes have been boiled until just soft enough to chop up and use in hash brown potatoes tomorrow. I have a couple of other things to prepare today for our holiday brunch midday tomorrow.

The house - oy. I'll be busy today, but I'm glad to say the new placement of the wooden love seat/bench is excellent. To keep the dogs off of it and out of gifts set there I'll turn it around so they can't jump up. My goal is to have it tidy and the table set with everything we'll need for tomorrow's meal so I can just concentrate on a bit of cooking and serving. My gift to myself this morning was not getting up as early as usual; the cats and dogs ate a little later than usual.