The Miller Report 12182025

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   Greetings and Welcome! 
Greetings from sunny Southington and welcome to Miller’s Mysteries, where the season sparkles and the goats are clearly up to something festive outside. 🐐 
  

The cats remain unimpressed, watching it all from their warm window seats. 🐈 We’re looking ahead to AMC movies πŸŽ₯, Christmas shopping πŸ›️, and twinkling decorations that multiply overnight. Dinner plans are already forming at Sam the Clam Pub & Grub, Viron Rondo Osteria, and the New Mill. πŸŽ„ Come on in and enjoy the holiday show—indoors and out! ✨

 

 • Across my Desk!!

About the book:  Lorna Doone
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/YZ8o3pLsb1A

Feast of Seven Fishes
baccala (cod), lobster, shrimp, tilapia
scallops, tuna, quahogs (clams)
The menu may also include pasta, vegetables, baked goods, and wine.  

Today at the North Pole: expect flurries of snow, occasional sleigh traffic jams, and a 100% chance of elves complaining that it’s “too cold for cocoa breaks.” ❄️πŸ›·☕️


December 18th! 🌟 Your ruling planet today is “Oops, I Forgot Something,” meaning every plan will mysteriously need last-minute adjustments. Mercury in “Mild Chaos” ensures you’ll accidentally mix your coffee with dessert at least once. With the Moon in “Snack Sagittarius,” your brilliant ideas are fueled by cookies, chocolate, and the occasional leftover pizza slice. πŸͺπŸ•☕️ Just remember: the stars say it’s totally fine to blame the dog for any spilled glitter.

Are candles happy or sad when they are put out?
They are delighted.


  • The Reader
  
  Rick collapses into his recliner after a day of landscaping, smelling faintly of cedar mulch and cut grass. He cracks open a root beer and sets a snack mix bowl on the side table. His spiral notebook sits on his lap, pencil wedged in the wire binding. He opens Mindmyst Tales on his phone and scrolls with dusty fingertips. The setting sun slants through the window in gold bars. He swallows a sip and chuckles at a post about campfires. Even tired, he finds energy to jot down an idea.
  
  
 • Math of the Week
 
1. Cookies & Coffee (Linear Equations)
Michele bakes Christmas cookies and brings them to a cafΓ© where Bob is drinking coffee. She makes 4 dozen sugar cookies and 3 dozen chocolate cookies, for a total of 84 cookies. How many of each type did she bake?

2. Presents Under the Tree (Systems of Equations)
Bob buys 7 Christmas presents for friends and family. Some cost $15 each and the rest cost $25 each, for a total of $145 spent. How many presents did Bob buy at each price?

3. Holiday Coffee Break (Exponential Growth)
While wrapping gifts, Michele notices that Bob refills his coffee cup every 30 minutes, doubling the amount of caffeine consumed each time. If he starts with 50 mg of caffeine, how much caffeine has he consumed after 3 refills?

4. Christmas Lights & Orbits (Geometry)
Bob strings Christmas lights around a circular wreath with a diameter of 18 inches while Michele reads about planetary orbits. How many inches of lights are needed to go once around the wreath? (Use Ο€ ≈ 3.14.)

5. Astronomy on a Cold Night (Quadratic Motion)
On a clear Christmas Eve, Michele tracks a meteor whose height (in meters) above the ground is modeled by

h(t)=−5t^2+40t+10

Where t is time in seconds. When does the meteor reach its maximum height?


 • Now, This Week's Exciting Story

Party Line 12-13-2025

WATERTOWN CONNECTICUT TALKS
David Stephen Irvin  

Anyone else see some kind of UFO tonight at about 6:20pm, Middlebury?

David Barcomb
Tell me more.

David Stephen Irvin
Author
All-star contributor
David Barcomb, just was bright white light, going way too slow to be a meteorite. Was going straight down like landing, but fairly quickly. Not a plane, too fast a descent for a helicopter, no blinking FAA lights, just solid continuous light.

It almost looked T-shaped, like there was a protrusion pointing downward on the underside, but a little more subtle than it sounds.

David Barcomb
David Stephen Irvin,  my friend, saw something similar yesterday, actually. I inboxed you check for it.

Bekim Muca
Been seeing them for 1 year now!

Will Murtishi
Would be nice if they popped in and said hellooo. 😁😁😁

Fran Membrino
Probably drones don’t forget when happy in Jersey last year……
 
David Stephen Irvin
Author
All-star contributor
Fran Membrino, possibly. Way over lit for a drone. No blinking lights.

Nancy Hudobenko-Brooks
Top contributor
Isn’t it tonight where they have the meteor shower? Maybe that’s part of it. 

Connie Fusco
He’s a Starman waiting in the sky! He’d like to come and meet us, but he thinks he’d blow our minds!

Aggie Parlak
FYI - The Geminid meteor shower is peaking tonight and tomorrow. 150-200 meteors per hour are possible, with the peak time being 10pm, so you can see them earlier than the usual meteor shower. This meteor shower is known to produce fireballs.
 
Emily Elizabeth
Rising contributor
Could just be Lights on Morro


Jessica Vieira
All-star contributor
Someone posted about this in Waterbury and had a picture lol

 
Joe Miller
Suddenly, the lights in their homes flicker, replaced by shadowy specters that materialize inside. Trapped in a room filled with flickering screens, they learn too late that the message was a warning, not a plea.
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Eileen Antolini
I saw a shooting star last night.

Ann Krantz
My son called from Thomaston at the time to tell me he had seen a UFO.

 



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 • Thank you for stopping by! 

The December chill might bite, but company like yours keeps the cold at bay. Thanks for dropping in and stirring up some warmth beside the fire. Here’s to good soup, dark coffee, and the kind of talk that lingers long after the embers fade.


 • Please do write a comment.  You could, if you dare, ask me a question. If I like it, I'll publish it right here in Miller's Mysteries Blog!
[send to mindmyst@yahoo.com]

Until next Thursday,    
Happy December!!! 

Joe Miller πŸ»πŸŽƒ️πŸ¦ƒ 🌲️

 • weather forecast
 
Reports from the Arctic indicate polar bears have begun using space heaters and Amazon Prime.
That’s bad news for global cooling — and your electric bill.
Expect unusually warm December nights and confused Christmas trees budding early.
 

  JOE


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