Day Twelve - Another Christmas Is Done

The children have gathered their holiday loot and are back at their moms, leaving Southern Man to finish packing for the move Down South. He is scheduled to be out by the 5th - that's tomorrow - and isn't going to make it, so blogging will be either light or retroactive for a while. Like this one, which is actually being written in early February. But Southern Man suffers sufficiently from OCPD that he simply cannot leave the Twelve Days sequence unfinished, even if the last post is four weeks late.