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Portland Oregon, USA is experiencing an icy day. The Willamette Valley doesn't do snowy winter very well -- we tend to get some snow, melt the snow and then freeze it all to create ice everywhere. This time, we have an artic low inland and tropical, rainy high in the ocean. The effect is freezing air on the ground and rainy weather on top. Ice everywhere.

At the moment, it is 4pm, the outside temperature is 29F and the rain is still falling. They say we should have just rain tomorrow -- the tropical rain will win out. For the moment, I'm staying home. Actually, most of the city is staying home.

Christmas morning will start at 9am PST. That's when the kids and relatives will show up for the grand present opening extraveganza. View the event and chat with us and share the joy of Christmas.

Merry Christmas!!!!

The old world tradition for Christmas Eve day is to spend the day in the kitchen. So, keeping with our ancestors, we are cooking Wagilia -- the traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. This includes babka (a citrus'y bread), golabki (rice and meat wrapped in cabbage leaves), mushroom soup, pierogies (dough filled with potatoes, cheese, sourkraut, prunes.. not all at the same time), and many more delicacies.

We'll be in the <a href-"http://christmascam.us/">kitchen</a> cooking most of the day.

Now you can know how the Christmas tree sees Christmas with the addition of a camera in the Christmas tree at ChristmasCam. Also, the angel at the top of the tree is controllable. So, flash our angel and say Merry Christmas.

It's Tuesday and we're in a rush wrapping presents in the kitchen and that will be followed by starting cooking for Wagellia -- a traditional Polish Christmas Eve dinner. So, you should see us in the kitchen most of the week.