” It’s Christmas. Nothing bad is going to happen on Christmas!”
Today is the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the first day of winter. The days will start getting longer but we’ll hardly notice. It will still be dark early. I guess it’s a psychological thing, the idea that winter is very slowly losing its grip. Today is cold. Gracie and I were out early as she had another acupuncture treatment. She did well. When we got home, we both went to back to sleep. I just woke up. She’s still sleeping.
I’m going to make some cookies today. I did all my Christmas food shopping yesterday. I also made two other stops for dog food and Christmas candy. For Christmas dinner, the menu is set. We’re having bone-in rib roast. I have to pick the meat up on Christmas Eve. The rest of the menu will give our plates some color, in keeping with the season: white, green and orange, better known as potatoes, carrots and green beans.
My whole house feels like Christmas. The aroma of my Christmas tree fills the rooms. It makes me smile, and I tell the air how wonderful it is. I don’t even pretend I’m talking to Gracie.
I’m watching a Christmas movie, and it isn’t very good. The elves are tall and have names like George and Mindy. Their acting is over the top, hammy. The main characters are a family of a mother and two kids. The father passed away. One kid loves Christmas while the other is obnoxious and angry. She needs a slap. The mother is sweet and does her best only to be rebuffed by her daughter. The only parts of this movie I really enjoy are the scenes of the town and the snow. It looks like an old town with lots of brick buildings. Snow is everywhere. I don’t know why I’m still watching. I know how this horrible movie ends. It’s a Christmas movie so the ending will be happy and even the rude, obnoxious daughter will love Christmas again. Maybe I should watch Krampus again though even that has a happy ending.
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Tags: acupuncture, carrots and green beans, colors, Cookies, dinner, green and orange, naps, potatoes, rib roast, white, Winter solstice
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December 21, 2017 at 4:00 pm
How can I get an invite to your house. Bone in rib roast is the king of beef. Today the sky is clear and the temperature is in the mid 70s. But the winter vortex is coming in the morning preceded by rain. Tomorrow’s high temp of 50 will occur in the morning and the cold Arctic air will follow. They’re forecasting a low in the twenties on Christmas morning.
I’m amazed how many religions and groups celebrate the winter solstice. Only Islam doesn’t have a winter solstice celebration. Strangely, I don’t know of any Southern Hemisphere people’s don’t celebrate the summer solstice which is their shortest day of the year?
Stay warm we are getting a winter blast late in December.
December 21, 2017 at 5:24 pm
Bob,
I figure Christmas is the king of holidays so it rates the bone in rib roast.
I just went outside to get something off the deck and was frozen from just being out there a short time. It is only 32˚ which will go down to the low 20’s tonight.
In the Northern Hemisphere, I think the Summer Solstice is joyous, the longest day of the year, but it is the Winter Solstice which seems to have more customs and celebrations attached. The Southern Hemisphere just celebrated the Summer Solstice but you don’t hear much about it.
December 21, 2017 at 5:46 pm
I’m sure the original people celebrated something at both times of the year. The Mayan had a very sophisticated calendar. The Spanish Conquest of all the native peoples wiped out their culture and replaced it with Catholicism. Spaniards demanded conversion or death. Not like the Jack Benny joke, “Your money or your life”? Jack, “I’m thinking”.
December 21, 2017 at 10:22 pm
Bob,
In many places, the missionaries were smart enough to combine their beliefs with those of the natives. It made conversion more palatable.
December 21, 2017 at 8:46 pm
An interesting look at the winter solstice:
December 21, 2017 at 10:20 pm
Bob,
I couldn’t read this as it the Times says I have hit my limit of free articles this month. I’m sorry about not being able to read it-thanks for looking!~
December 21, 2017 at 10:31 pm
Cinnamon stars (Zimtsterne), popular Christmas cookies over here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5DyI_e3Z9s
December 21, 2017 at 10:52 pm
Birgit,
They look great. I’m amazed by the egg white-confectionary sugar addition. They are the first cookies I’ve seen with that combination.
I think the only difficult part would be the frosting. Mine would never look so good but would be all over the pan and hanging off the stars.