Deep in the Night of Christmas

OK. Technically, Christmas is almost over, but as far as I'm concerned it will be Christmas till I go to sleep. For that matter, it will be Christmasy until Jan. 2. Tonight is a perfect Appalachian Christmas. We watched Wicker Man and Black Christmas. By the end of the movies, an additional inch of wet snow piled onto the already white roads. The red light created by the cracked plastic Santa on the front porch cast an eerie pink glow over the glistening yard. If you are really quiet, you can hear the electricity flowing through Santa.