Holiday Vacation!



We had a great Christmas - Christmas Eve Georgia fell asleep before anyone even arrived, but luckily she got a second wind and made it through dinner, dessert, and 7:30 church services. We have made a tradition of going to a 300 year old nearby church every holiday - our particular Quaker meeting doesn't have any arrangements for hymns like some others, and we prefer for our holidays, at least, to be full of song. The callaloo soup was the hit of Christmas Eve dinner, so I'll be making that again soon.

I love the ostrich egg E found for me, and he was very happy once he figured out from the clues that I had ordered him a package of new Russian bees and two new queens so he can re-queen the old hive that is a bit ornery. Georgia was showered with wonderful toys and books from all her relatives, and had been busy with those every since. My mom had one of her art students paint a lovely portrait of Gi which she gave to us on Christmas Eve. She has a portrait our neighbor drew of my brother and I when we were young, so it's nice to continue that tradition.

Yesterday we moved around furniture and re-arranged the bedroom. New year, new room - sort of :) Today we'll make a trip to the recycling center to get rid of all the mixed paper and cardboard from Christmas (at least there's not much that isn't recyclable, even though the pile of discarded "Stuff" is daunting) and Gibby is in heat today, so she has a date at a nearby farm I'll be chaperoning later. Lucretia was in heat on Christmas Day, and I didn't want to bother M and her family on the holiday, so she'll go to be bred in about three weeks when she comes into heat again. The seed catalogs have been filling the mailbox, so I'll be digging into those later to, revising my current plans for the next growing season. We usually order from Johnny's, and then a few rarer varieties from places like Cook's Garden and Pinetree seeds.

I'm working on finishing my third sock monster this morning, and then will move on to finishing a quilt that I took a break from. Pics to follow, of course! Enjoy the holiday break!

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Posted: Wed - December 27, 2006 at 11:09 AM        

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