You chalked your beehive!! That makes my heart so happy.
I resonate so deeply with everything here, and though I'm pausing my deep-dive into Plough Monday till next winter, I'm so enamored of it.
The varying new year days that crop up in calendars are fascinating. The categorical thinker in me used to get all out-of-sorts trying to reconcile all those different "first days," but I've grown to love the variation. All Saints' feels like a new year to me since I arrived on the farm back in the day, and after learning about the poignant intersections of time-reckoning in the Annunciation - and, since falling head over heels for the arrival of spring after gray PNW winters - that feels like somewhat of a new year, too. In our stage of life, with kiddos in school, the beginning of September also feels like a new year (shoutout to our Orthodox friends here, who start a new liturgical year then!)
It was so awesome getting to spend time chatting about Twelfth Night with you, Brigitte, & everyone else! And I also thought that anecdote was AMAZING about our first written evidence of an orchard wassail being a formal complain!
I’ll look forward to reading your post on Plough Monday next year! Happy you liked the beehive chalking.
There are good reasons for all the “first days,” I guess, except January 1st still seems random. I like All Saints’ Day as a new year. I used to think of September as a fresh changeover, but as the start of the school year has been pushed to mid-August around here, it doesn’t quite line up.
I loved this—a wonderful post-Christmas pick-me-up! Even though I like to extend the holiday season through the 12 Days of Christmas, it’s still not long enough, lol.
That being the case, I’m never ready for January 1, and the fresh start and intentions for the new year, blah, blah, blah. I just want to cocoon in holiday mode a little longer!
Garden pics are wonderful, as usual! Especially your festive hives! 🌲 (“Make Christianity weird again”? Sounds very intriguing!) Today, I harvested the last of the parsnips—now I’m off to peel and roast a few for dinner!
Fave holiday cookie: shortbread by a mile! How about you?
Thank you, Susan— happy the post was a bright spot. I completely agree about January being a month for cocooning!
Shortbread is soooo delicious, and also no good for a New Year’s diet. 😍 Another good reason not to start one.
My favorite Christmas cookie is a tie between sugared almond butter cookies and peppermint pinwheels. But my favorite holiday snack is homemade chex mix, and since telling my family it was my favorite “cookie” many years ago, they gift me loads of it at Christmas.
You chalked your beehive!! That makes my heart so happy.
I resonate so deeply with everything here, and though I'm pausing my deep-dive into Plough Monday till next winter, I'm so enamored of it.
The varying new year days that crop up in calendars are fascinating. The categorical thinker in me used to get all out-of-sorts trying to reconcile all those different "first days," but I've grown to love the variation. All Saints' feels like a new year to me since I arrived on the farm back in the day, and after learning about the poignant intersections of time-reckoning in the Annunciation - and, since falling head over heels for the arrival of spring after gray PNW winters - that feels like somewhat of a new year, too. In our stage of life, with kiddos in school, the beginning of September also feels like a new year (shoutout to our Orthodox friends here, who start a new liturgical year then!)
It was so awesome getting to spend time chatting about Twelfth Night with you, Brigitte, & everyone else! And I also thought that anecdote was AMAZING about our first written evidence of an orchard wassail being a formal complain!
I’ll look forward to reading your post on Plough Monday next year! Happy you liked the beehive chalking.
There are good reasons for all the “first days,” I guess, except January 1st still seems random. I like All Saints’ Day as a new year. I used to think of September as a fresh changeover, but as the start of the school year has been pushed to mid-August around here, it doesn’t quite line up.
I loved this—a wonderful post-Christmas pick-me-up! Even though I like to extend the holiday season through the 12 Days of Christmas, it’s still not long enough, lol.
That being the case, I’m never ready for January 1, and the fresh start and intentions for the new year, blah, blah, blah. I just want to cocoon in holiday mode a little longer!
Garden pics are wonderful, as usual! Especially your festive hives! 🌲 (“Make Christianity weird again”? Sounds very intriguing!) Today, I harvested the last of the parsnips—now I’m off to peel and roast a few for dinner!
Fave holiday cookie: shortbread by a mile! How about you?
Thank you, Susan— happy the post was a bright spot. I completely agree about January being a month for cocooning!
Shortbread is soooo delicious, and also no good for a New Year’s diet. 😍 Another good reason not to start one.
My favorite Christmas cookie is a tie between sugared almond butter cookies and peppermint pinwheels. But my favorite holiday snack is homemade chex mix, and since telling my family it was my favorite “cookie” many years ago, they gift me loads of it at Christmas.
Almond butter cookies! They sound delish… I will have to look around for a recipe!
They are similar to shortbread, but with almond extract.
The "Snow clinging to the magnolia tree" photo is a real work of art.
Thank you very much!
Happy New Year!
My Christmases are always in Las Vegas at my mom's, so casinos are a regular Christmas Day. But at home, I'm harvesting SO much lettuce!
What an unexpected Christmas tradition! You are always interesting, Jennifer! 😊
Oooo, lettuce! We are probably 3 months away from outdoor greens here. Sounds delicious!