Really wonderful day… Just the four of us here. Diane and I did scoot out in the morning for an early morning grocery run…
But then we basically hung around the house the entire day.
I call it wrap day because we wrapped presents, we made spring roll wit rice wrappers and we listened to really bad rap Christmas music… All in a single day.
Early afternoon the four of us took a hike down by the river sure with the dogs… We wanted to see what it happened after the flood. It was a thin skin of ice everywhere… It was like glass to walk through it. We had a lot of fun playing with it
We visited the neighbors horse
We had both Sam lanterns burning all day… Kind of a Christmas time tradition for us
Another Christmas time tradition is that we decorate a tree in the woods for the animals… There’s a bunch of or baked goods drying with string of tight on. I’ve been doing this for more than 20 years
For dinner we decided to do spring rolls… Diane had a bunch of the rice paper wraps somewhere in the house are we all set to work
We also chose to sample Gabe sake that he brewed back in June. It’s been sitting there aging ever cents. It was…… Drinkable. Actually pretty good… It really strong.
15-year-old chai new just What was going on.. As we sat down to dinner she went out and picked out her stocking off of the stairs As she does every year to see what was inside… Too early for that yet girl !
Around nine we all climbed in the car and drove up to the catamount trail. We hiked up to the same tree we always decorate and through 84 different string that food bits onto the tree. Will come back in a couple of weeks and clean up the string. It’s always all gone by then . It was a cool crisp night 19° and a full moon… Just enough snow to make it beautiful.
We had Sambuca, chocolate peppermint milk and some lebkuchen from my friend Colja in Germany
As a final treat for the day… Diane found the book we used to read when the kids were very young about decorating the tree in the woods… I’m not sure it was the thing that inspired us but we were always read it when the boys were little. We read it for old time sake and looked at the pictures… I could’ve recited it
OK… Time for bed. Tomorrow we’re gonna do our Christmas because Max has to go back on the 25th
Time for my long winters nap
Night All , night Sam
– me