Thank you. And a happy new year to you and your family, too.

In light of global warming, we did make our Solstice morning coffee offering to the sun decaf. About an hour later, though, one of our number insisted that, since the problem is our treatment of the earth, and the sun's just going about its business, we shouldn't short the sun over our misdeeds. So, high-test coffee and a second breakfast of sunflower seeds for the sun.