Category Archives: Seasons & Celebrations

Observations of the seasons, particular holidays and special days.

Winter Comes

Winter has come. No snow has fallen on the “homestead,” no frosts or freezes that linger more than an hour past daylight, but it won’t be long. The air has smelled of snow many days in the past week, even … Continue reading

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Homestead Halloween

I’ve always loved the medieval incantation against scary stuff: From ghoulies and ghosties, and long-leggity beasties And things that go bump in the night Good Lord, deliver us! Oddly enough, I seem to have worked out most of my fear … Continue reading

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