We leave tomorrow to spend the (early) holidays with family in Texas.
Merry Midwinter! Merry Christmas! Merry Hanukkah!
Archive for the ‘holidays’ Category
The past couple of weeks have been a blur. We stayed home this year and cooked Thanksgiving dinner* (just the two of us) — a turkey breast with quinoa stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, broccoli, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. Compared to our usual family get-together, it was slightly less festive, but way more relaxed.
On Sunday, we unpacked our tree and set it up and I had fun snapping a series of progressively more out-of-focus shots.
Monday we went out and bought a few Christmas gifts. My brothers and I don’t always exchange gifts (it’s optional), but this year my family’s coming up on St. Stephen’s for a few days of skiing, so I thought I’d get a little something for everyone.
Anyhoo, I hope to get back to more regular posting now.
Peace out, dawg.
* Actually, lunch, dinner, lunch (turkey sandwiches), dinner, lunch (turkey sandwiches), dinner
I’m going to give NaBloPoMo — 30 posts in 30 days — a try this year. It’ll be a challenge, as my usual posting frequency is more like 1-2/week. If you have any ideas as to what I could be writing, please give your suggestions!
— — —
Yesterday, my wife and I got up early to go into town and run errands (farmers market, grocery store, etc.), but the car wouldn’t start (damn gremlins!) — and our mechanic is closed on the weekend — so when it got a bit warmer, we strapped on backpacks and walked a mile-and-a-half along our “greenbelt” (“brownbelt” would be more accurate) trail to our little community grocery store.
When we arrived, it seems ghouls and goblins had overrun the place. The marketplace was having a community Halloween event, so we took a short break and watched the jedis, princesses, and pirates parade around the agora square. Then we bought our groceries, stuffed them in our packs, and walked back home. It was actually kind of fun.
Nobody trick-or-treats in our spread-out rural neighborhood, so we settled in for the night and watched what is probably my favorite Hitchcock film, Rear Window.
Happy Halloween! Samhain! Dia de los Muertos!
Cool and rainy. Made chocolate chip cookies, (green chile) burgers. Went on a moonlit walk with la esposa guapa and watched fireworks sparkle in the distance.
I was about ten years old when I cajoled my dad into letting me buy one of those big, more-expensive fireworks that tower over the sparklers and bottle-rockets. The ones with the massive explosions of color and equally massive warning labels. That night, in a dirt farm field outside the city limits, I nervously lit the fuse, turned, and ran like hell. *BOOM* When I reached my family, a safe distance from the launch site, I turned, but my glorious firework had already gone off and begun to rapidly fade.
At least I lived to tell the tale.
Hope y’all had a good ’un.
