So let the sun rise, bring hope where it once was forgotten
Solstice stockings & candles
Just before noon, the snow started again, and I lit several candles on the hearth and Garth put another log on the fire. We made some bloody marys with homegrown and -canned dilly beans (just you wait, we’ll learn to make vodka someday!) and settled down to open our solstice stockings, which I sewed on Friday. Mine contained a super fancy mechanical pencil, and a delicious-looking German marzipan cake, some CUTE pink moleskine notebooks!!, and a beautiful bottle of Basil Hayden bourbon. Garth’s had a little gym-style whistle for calling the dogs in from the woods, and a small length of dinosaur-fossil-patterned fabric he was coveting at the fabric store but which sold out before we got there, a chunk of British goat cheddar, a cute bamboo rice paddle, a sink drain screen that we hope doesn’t suck, and the Seed Savers catalog that came in the mail this week. Garth’s big present was the welding class that he took in November, and I have some long johns on the way.
This afternoon we will walk the dogs in the snow, visit the chickens, and leaf through the first seed catalog of the year, dreaming about what will be in the next year, and reflecting on what was. And also we will drink some fancy bourbon. Happy new year!
Happy Solstice to you too! It is such a happy holiday, isn’t it? Your day sounds very peaceful. Especially looking at the candles and the fire and knowing that lighter days are ahead. What is marzipan cake?
Happy solstice. We’re huddled inside today watching the snow fall and eating far too many of the chocolate chip cookies I baked last night. We were wondering how things are out there on the farm in the snow. We’re deeply snowed in here.
I too thought that the fact that it was the Solstice made the fact that we were getting dumped on by snow a tad more tollerable. At least the kids loved it!
Happy Solstice a bit late. Hope you’re still warm and dry!