HI GANG: IT IS TIME, WE THINK, FOR A CHRISTMAS READING. So here I am, with a vintage copy of “The Night Before Christmas.”

Every year, Kathy, chatelaine of Pine Point Cabin, decorates it with great love and befitting a Christmas issue of Good Housekeeping Magazine. Or, at least, Good Cabin-Keeping. But this year for us, as for many, is different. No children or grandchildren visiting, all is scaled back. But… perhaps you’d enjoy a look at the cabin last year, all dressed up as it was for my yearly duty of reading a classic tale. Go ahead, pour a hot chocolate, pull up a chair, and listen. Be well. Stay safe. And Merry Christmas…