The day started off intensely cold and also ended that way. The sunrise coming through the sunroom with the snow, was beautiful. I noted the ice developing on the windows and that God had painted a daffodil with the ice on the window, giving promise of warmer days to come. How cool is that? And we ended up with a white Christmas for the first time in about 13 years I think. George and Dexter and I opened our stockings and sipped coffee. We had a while before the others would arrive, around 10:30 or 11:00, giving us time to get things ready. Dexter got another new bed that I…