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CHRISTMAS UPDATE FROM THE NORTH WEST.
WEATHER: Nice with just a bit of turbulence to keep folks honest and warm. Coats are a must with ice cleats in the car just in case. Snowing on the volcanoes regularly and staying chill there. A nice winter all in all.
Merry Christmas!
WHAT TO DO THIS SEASON? Shopping spree? Travel? Spiritual retreat? Gifting? A hermitage? Denial? Craft beer drinking and movie watching? Do something never done before? Walking? Over eating with friends and family? Laughing? Crying maybe? A bit of it all perhaps? Where?
FIRST THINGS FIRST, a tree. Into the canyon in search of the perfect juniper. A perfect juniper must have the correct size; small, it must be in need of trimming or removal, and it might even be a properly bent branch. It could be a ragged scrub needing to be cut down to where a secondary branch can take over. We’ll see in the second week of December…
WE MIGHT, THIS YEAR, celebrate Christmas starting with the turning of the Sun. Maybe light a huge bonfire right before it starts and help it along. Sing some songs, do some toasts and smoke cigars. Invite the neighbors over and anyone who wants to join in, have a BS session and see what happens. Sort of.
WHERE? In the Northwest there is a nasty bit of weather that seems to happen around the holidays; freezing rain. The kind that causes the roads to become slick and scary, very scary. Never seems to fail except this year. We were able to visit the coast for Thanksgiving and had a phenomenal week of perfect travel weather. But you never know. 250 miles on ice gets wearisome indeed and that’s Oregon. So chances are good we’ll be at home. Or in the canyon, or the forest, or the mesa.
Well that being said, Merry Christmas again!
BEEN A GREAT YEAR. We raised up a most excellent little pup named Lilliseeme, the flower seed. She has turned into one of those once in a lifetime dogs. Gives 100%, learns quite easily, no bad vices except one which she’ll most likely outgrow and she just keeps getting better and better.
Yep, been a good year, lots happened and more to come, interesting times to live but you got to make the most of it. Lots of travel, lots of good time at home. Lots of gratitude and blessings around here and we try our best to pass it on.
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Paul & Epp