MERRY SOLSTICE, Y'ALL!

Merry Merry Solstice!

My favorite day of the year. I think I shall always regret not getting married on the winter solstice. Why didn't I? Hmmm. Good question with different answers depending on whether I'm being positive or negative that day! Oh well, maybe we'll celebrate 10 years of marriage on the solstice.

We started our day by helping with our neighborhood's annual Lighting of the Luminaries. We have a big, long ditch (Arroyo Seco) that runs through our hood (and sits right outside my windows too). Every year at Christmastime, we collect hundreds of plastic jugs, cut the tops off, put sand in the bottom and place a little tealight inside. Then, at 6pm every night we light them and at 10pm we extinguish them. It is sooo beautiful to see an entire street lit with lovely white lights. Really dreamy. It was so cold today that Finn and I volunteered to drive our truck up and down the street and place the jugs on the arroyo. Finn got to ride in the front seat and I got to stop and start and stop and start and stop and start. It was fun.

We were starving afterwards so we went to our secret IHOP. It's just crazy that no one is ever there! Even on a Sunday at 11am it was practically empty. Then we came home and did our annual decorating of the trees in our yard. We usually decorate some of the trees on the arroyo too, but it was so darn cold and windy that we just did one and called it a day. A delicious long winter's nap followed and soon it will be time to go to the airport and pick up Uncle Roo. At last!

Hope y'all are having a wonderful holiday season and don't forget to say a little thanks to the earth and sun and moon and stars.

Love,

Michele and Finnigan the Curious

Tomorrow: Tales from the bus stop at 11PM! (ugh) and some pictures from Jackholt.