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Happy Solstice!!
The Winter Solstice is upon us, and we are celebrating! While we still celebrate the traditional Christmas holiday with the rest of our friends and family, we also celebrate the Solstices in our house. I mentioned before we have a solstice tree to welcome back the sun. We also have a table top Charlie-Brown-Style tree on which hang my ornament set of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer and a couple of other small ornaments added by my two boys. I made my famous chocolate zucchini cake today, with chocolate icing in between the layers and white icing on top for a special Solstice design. I have a couple of small…
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Last full moon of 2011
December 10, 2011. It was the last full moon of the calendar year. I love the sky, y’all. I pay homage to the sun every chance I get. I have a wall in my foyer dedicated to the sun. I have a Solstice tree in my living room right now to celebrate the return of the sun after it’s long journey. However, I am one to seek balance, too, and therefore, also love the moon. I watch the skies at night and pick out constellations. I watch the moon as it goes through its phases each month, and take note* of how the we are affected by it. *Remember I am an…
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Search for the perfect first boat – Catalina 25
Sailing classes are finished. Boating season in the midwest is done. It’s December. But that’s not stopping us! Oh, no! We are on a mission to find our first sailboat. It has been a very interesting ride so far. We have done extensive searches onYacht World and Sailing Texas and Craigslist – even Ebay! Not to mention all the blogs and forums and manufacturer websites and the invaluable advice and experience of sailing friends. We had narrowed it down to 3 kinds of boats – the Catalina 25, the Watkins 25 and the C&C 26 or 27. Now given our price range the pickings are a little slim for the…
