I've slipped a little in posting in recent days, but my blog is apparently becoming incredibly popular -- with the spammers.

I wonder how stunning this sounds. In the months I have been writing "One Voice," I have had 22 legitimate comments on articles I have written, and more than 1,200 spam comments I have blocked and deleted. In the five days since I last posted, I have deleted 70.

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We had a white Christmas here, the first time there has been snow on the ground at the place I have been living since the late '80s. I spent four Christmases then -- from '86 to '89 -- living at altitude in Colorado and Nevada, and while I don't recall if there was snow on the ground on Dec. 25, it snowed <em>a lot</em> all four of those winters.

It wasn't as if we got a lot of snow here last weekend. As you can see from the photograph, there was accumulation of maybe half an inch, and there wasn't even that much in the front yard.

It wasn't a real exciting Christmas. We didn't decorate, we didn't shop and we didn't do anything special for Christmas dinner. Mostly we just got through the day. Sorry if that sounds depressing, but as holidays go, this wasn't a great one.

At least our house is shaping up. The painters finished last week, and we had some rugs and a couple more pieces of furniture delivered today. Aside from an empty living room -- we'll get that furniture next week -- probably the biggest thing that's missing is that we have nothing on the walls right now.

I'll write about something more interesting tomorrow.

I just needed to get something up here today.