Counting the Twelve Days of Christmas

Every Christmas brings up the old question: how do you count the twelve days of Christmas? The days between Christmas and Epiphany or Twelfth Night don’t quite add up. Obviously, Twelfth Night must be Christmas day number twelve, so something’s wrong.

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A Blessed, Merry Christmas to One and All!

We’ve been blogging “by remote” a lot lately, prescheduling posts as our holiday activities take precedence over being online. Tomorrow’s post is scheduled and ready to go (sneak peak: How to Count the 12 Days of Christmas!) and as you read this, we’re preparing for Christmas Eve on the Zeiger homestead.

A view from Christmas past (before we shingled the cabin front).

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