Happy Solstice!
Snowed in today appropriately enough on the eve of the Winter Solstice. We got about twenty inches of snow yesterday. Wonderful, fluffy powder. Beautiful, if only there was not so much of it. Our driveway is such that we really can't shovel it, so when it snows like this, we are really stuck in the house even with 4WD vehicles. No worries, we have the big survivalist pantry and Internet, so we are good-to-go.
We're not really doing anything special this year for the Solstice. We're still pretty much on sabbatical anyway and are re-charging our own energies. We expect to start back in having private rituals probably about Imbolc once our lives settle down a little more.
Speaking of which, we finally cleared up one mystery. Our dd jrprongs is getting married! She is currently stationed in Korea, and we received a phone call from her last weekend that they were on their way to the consulate in Seoul to get married - and that was the last we heard from her until last night. It turns out the consulate does not do marriages on weekends, so they didn't get married, and her fiance' is already back in the states. So they plan to do a civil ceremony on her mid-tour leave in February, then have the actual wedding when she rotates back to the states later next year. So, not only do we get to go to our daughter's wedding next year, we're also officiating. How cool!
That's about all the news that is fit to print today. The snow was quite pretty, but has served its purpose. Someone can now haul it off.
We're not really doing anything special this year for the Solstice. We're still pretty much on sabbatical anyway and are re-charging our own energies. We expect to start back in having private rituals probably about Imbolc once our lives settle down a little more.
Speaking of which, we finally cleared up one mystery. Our dd jrprongs is getting married! She is currently stationed in Korea, and we received a phone call from her last weekend that they were on their way to the consulate in Seoul to get married - and that was the last we heard from her until last night. It turns out the consulate does not do marriages on weekends, so they didn't get married, and her fiance' is already back in the states. So they plan to do a civil ceremony on her mid-tour leave in February, then have the actual wedding when she rotates back to the states later next year. So, not only do we get to go to our daughter's wedding next year, we're also officiating. How cool!
That's about all the news that is fit to print today. The snow was quite pretty, but has served its purpose. Someone can now haul it off.