December 22nd

Merry Christmas

I love the pictures of Jesus

and the Holy Family depicted

as more real than the typical

Renaissance paintings.

I can identify with the Blessed Mother

cuddling and loving her baby.

There's a line from the song,

"Mary Did You Know?"

that says,

"When you kiss your little baby,

you kiss the face of God?"

I choose to believe she did know.

She accepted the joy with the

sorrow that was to come.

In that small kiss, to that tiny face,

she was like any other mother,

in awe at this beautiful creation.

One of my favorite seasonal TV

shows is, "A Charlie Brown Christmas".

It's essentially a story about

being depressed during the holidays,

because it has become so commercial,

but in typical Charlie Brown fashion,

he rallies and shows why we celebrate.

One of the more nostalgic parts

is, to me, his choice of a 

Christmas tree.

His sad little tree shows that

from humble roots,

something great will come.

To quote Linus,

"It's not a bad tree at all.

Maybe it just needs a little love."

And,

It's not about what's under it,

it's about who's around it.

And this is the reason for the season.

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The weather has been all over

the place lately.

It's been hot and sticky, foggy

windy, rainy and cold.

To save our harvest, I've been dehydrating

 as much of the veggies as I can.

I turned the dehydrated peppers into

a blend that I put into a couple of shakers.

The rest has been ground up

for my herbal blend.

I made more mint tea that

I added some dried tangerine

peel to, for a very surprising

and tasty citrus tea.

The cypress leaves seemed to fall

all at once and made a giant mess.

The CEO and I cleaned up what 

we could and put them into the

flower beds to act as mulch.

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The Broccoli and Cauliflower

are doing very well.

We may have to harvest them a bit early

because of the impending freeze.

If that happens, I'll blanche them

and then put them in the freezer.

Banana Peppers

My Paperwhites.

Aren't they beautiful?

Cosmos

Pink Begonia.

The seedlings.

We brought them into the garage

last night to keep them from freezing.

Celery

(Elvis) Parsley

Fat Cat

She's always meowing.

Lucy and Ethel, the geriatric hens.

Does that apply to bossy hens?

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I like cool weather, but NOT cold weather!

This is too cute!

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Here's wishing everyone

the most wonderful Christmas!

I hope all your wishes come true.

💚💙

Also,

here's my PSA.

 While sitting on the floor

looking for 2 quarters that 

I had dropped,

I realized 2 things.

1) Always have a backup plan

for getting back up, it's

harder than you think!

2) Seriously!? It's only fifty cents.

They can live under the couch forever!

😁😆