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~And The Year Begins Again~

~And The Year Begins Again~

*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Yesterday was the shortest day of the year….. …..the Winter Solstice….. It’s just about pitch black by 5:00pm every evening now….. Awhile ago we started this relaxed annual tradition of having a bonfire on the Winter Solstice….. …..and we’ve had one ever since…kind of on-again…off-again…but semi-planned…nonetheless….. It’s fun…it’s pleasant…it’s relaxing….. The Infamous Big Purple Cups are involved…along with mediocre bourbon and cheap wine coolers…(good hang-over material)….. …..junk food…S’mores…cookies….. …..you know…a healthy meal….. Weather-willing…lawn…

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***Fun With The Winter Solstice***

***Fun With The Winter Solstice***

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** *****The Farmer’s Almanac***** I have several of my friends who are as life-experience comfortable as I am….. …..we try to get together for the Winter Solstice…(weather-willing)….. …..(my older daughter and I decided it’s better to call us “life-experience-comfortable” rather than saying we already have our deli-number in heaven’s waiting room)…(I’ll have 3/4 lb. of the smoked turkey and 1/4 lb. of the Swiss)….. But the Winter Solstice is a great excuse for a…

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~~~The Winter Solstice and The “Star”~~~

~~~The Winter Solstice and The “Star”~~~

Tonight’s the Winter Solstice….. ***The Winter Solstice Explained*** This year’s a more unique one than usual….. There will be a visual meeting-of-the-planets on the horizon on the Winter Solstice’s evening….. *****Get Ready For These…..I’ve Got A Lot Of Them***** Saturn and Jupiter are going to be in very close orbit and/or conjunction….. …..they will look like one planet in the night sky….. This only happens every eight hundred years….. …..I missed the last one…..(I was busy)….. …..and I may not…

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Winter Solstice

Winter Solstice

It gets dark at this time of year so quickly… It’s hard to get the outside chores done in the daylight. We’re still medicating Addy twice a day with 45 capsules dissolved in water each time… It’s hard enough trying to accomplish that in the full light of day, much less while she’s jiving and diving in the dark……. …..I don’t blame her…….it really tastes BAD! I’ve gotten that stuff in my hair…in my eyes…lots of it in my mouth…

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