Happy Holidays to all!

We quarantined for two weeks in preparation to spend this evening with parents-in-law (in their nineties) about 15 miles away, and cook them Christmas dinner --- including steamed pudding with real hard sauce (they liked the hard sauce!). We Zoommed on big screeen TV in the afternoon with the rest of the extended family, also mostly in Vermont, where we are all very lucky to be.
We thought it would surely be a white Christmas after all that snow the other day, but last night and today a torrential downpour and amazingly warm temps (for December here) 14+ C, wiped out all the snow. Our new bridge was tested with a roaring torrent beneath, but the whitewater didn't even cover the first tier of 2 foot abutment blocks, and there are three of them. It was certainly an impressive sight, and sound though!