WINTER SOLSTICE 2009
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 5:05 amGOOD MORNING ALL!
It's the shortest day of the year today---Winter Solstice!!! YAY! Each day after a couple where the darkness hours remain somewhat steady will now get longer daylight! I so LOVE this day! I would love to celebrate it with a massive campfire in the snow and some (careful) dancing around it, as they did in the days before civilization took us from nature and isolated us from the rest of the animal world, inside our little houses. I must admit, however, that after the outside celebration in the snow, it is fine to come back into my little isolation booth and get warm by my wood stove!
It's 15 above zero this morning, and no wood fire to have to stoke and get burning. I let it go out last night when it was very warm in here. I will save the wood for when it's really, really cold, or when/if we should lose power.
Today my class goes on its shopping field trip to buy Christmas presents for their friends and family with the money they earned making the wreaths and signs. I, too, will do some shopping for tiny things at the dollar store, as my family has agreed to NOT spend money on each other this year. I will need to pick up some things for my students, too, if I can get free from them long enough to sneak some things into my basket! I really wish this dollar store where we will be going had clothes, so I could buy our girls something decent to wear, but no clothes in this one. Then we will go to lunch with the entire crowd. Some have never eaten out in a sit-down restaurant. I hope we can get through the meal with no farting or nose-picking! I will warn the usual perpetrators of my morphing into a creature they never want to encounter if they should behave in such a manner in public!
I hope I can also buy some more coffee and coffee creamer while I am out, too. Tomorrow will be our last day before vacation at school, and then I can go to the big city about 40 miles from here and do some serious browsing.
One week from today I pick up the kids from FL at the Plattsburgh airport, and then we're off to their grandmother's for a night and a day to celebrate. I can't WAIT!!!
I hope you all are having fun with your last minute decorating and baking or whatever you do at this time! Pull up a chair and sip some warm Hazlenut coffee with vanilla creamer, and tell us about your day!
Happy Solstice!
It's the shortest day of the year today---Winter Solstice!!! YAY! Each day after a couple where the darkness hours remain somewhat steady will now get longer daylight! I so LOVE this day! I would love to celebrate it with a massive campfire in the snow and some (careful) dancing around it, as they did in the days before civilization took us from nature and isolated us from the rest of the animal world, inside our little houses. I must admit, however, that after the outside celebration in the snow, it is fine to come back into my little isolation booth and get warm by my wood stove!
It's 15 above zero this morning, and no wood fire to have to stoke and get burning. I let it go out last night when it was very warm in here. I will save the wood for when it's really, really cold, or when/if we should lose power.
Today my class goes on its shopping field trip to buy Christmas presents for their friends and family with the money they earned making the wreaths and signs. I, too, will do some shopping for tiny things at the dollar store, as my family has agreed to NOT spend money on each other this year. I will need to pick up some things for my students, too, if I can get free from them long enough to sneak some things into my basket! I really wish this dollar store where we will be going had clothes, so I could buy our girls something decent to wear, but no clothes in this one. Then we will go to lunch with the entire crowd. Some have never eaten out in a sit-down restaurant. I hope we can get through the meal with no farting or nose-picking! I will warn the usual perpetrators of my morphing into a creature they never want to encounter if they should behave in such a manner in public!
I hope I can also buy some more coffee and coffee creamer while I am out, too. Tomorrow will be our last day before vacation at school, and then I can go to the big city about 40 miles from here and do some serious browsing.
One week from today I pick up the kids from FL at the Plattsburgh airport, and then we're off to their grandmother's for a night and a day to celebrate. I can't WAIT!!!
I hope you all are having fun with your last minute decorating and baking or whatever you do at this time! Pull up a chair and sip some warm Hazlenut coffee with vanilla creamer, and tell us about your day!
Happy Solstice!
It felt good to rev her up. I pull her out of her slot before starting the gen. as the exhaust backs up otherwise and it sets off all the alarms inside. Found that out he hard way. Oh, my aching ears!! I watched a little TV to kill time and then saw I had company. The owners of the huge motor-home parked beside me was also there doing the same thing. Very nice young man with a wife and a little girl. 
This year I decided to make some sloppy joes. Everyone seems to bring only sweets so thought I'd try something different. 
