Enjoying January

We've got rain coming down all day today. It's very dark outside. It's a perfect day for sleeping in late (every now and then there's a rumble of thunder), reading Dickens, spending the day slothfully in pajamas or sweatpants, knitting, making bread, etc.

I really prefer to bake bread on dry, sunny days because the dampness makes the bread so heavy, but my family loves the dense, stodgy bread we make on damp days, so we'll bake today.
This article on five ways to enjoy January appeared in our newspaper a few days ago, and I'm posting a link to it that I found here.

(And the GAS LEAK was successfully repaired yesterday - Hooray!!)