The moon is bright tonight, and the first full moon of the new year will arrive in a few days, but the nights will probably still be too cold to spend much time outside looking at it. I find that my tolerance for cold (as well as my tolerance for heat) is rapidly diminishing as I age. Most annoying is that there is only one day in the next week when there is any possibility of rain, and that is slight, plus the day will be comparatively mild, so I'm going through all this discomfort but the cause of it will be doing nothing to assuage the drought. The misery would be much easier to tolerate if I thought that it was going to bring a pleasantly green spring and a summer with plentiful water.
New Year linkage: Something
I have resolved this year to make no resolutions for the New Year. This has worked well for me for decades now, and I see no reason to interrupt a winning streak. I might make a resolution or two for Groundhog Day. We'll see.