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A Look Back, Leaning Green, and Goodbye* It’s very early in the morning, on the last day of the year. I’m up before the chickens (which I don’t have–double whammy of city and HOA rules) so that I could have a quiet moment with you before the family wakes up (let’s give one more shout-out to the pajama chicken). It’s the [...] Twelve Drummers Drumming, Feeling Like Animal, Tight as a Drum, and Thoreau’s Advice* Bang the drum–we made it! When I started this special 12 Days of Christmas series here on Hot Off the Vine, 12 Drummers Drumming seemed very, very far away, and now, here it is. On Day One, you know, the partridge day, I whispered to you that my younger daughter was getting a set [...] Eleven Pipers Piping, Decorating with Plaid, A Music Room, Pipe Dreams, and Good Pipes Gone Bad* “11 Pipers Piping” is believed to refer to the bagpipes predominant during the Tudor and Stuart periods in the history of England. This stirs up visions of tartan plaid (one of my favorite patterns, by the way, after the wool blankets at a cabin in the Adirondack Mountains where my family used to vacation [...] Ten Lords-a-Leaping, Less Time Leaping Up and Down, Leap Year, and a Leap of Faith* Yes, I do often feel like I’m leaping up and down to get this or that at dinner sometimes, but this is no comparison to the lords-a-leaping, which is a reference to traditional Morris Dancers hired to perform high-energy leaping dances between courses in the court of King Henry VIII, and later, the court [...] Nine Ladies Dancing, Dancing with Mom, a Dance Studio of Your Own, and Dancing Lady Flowers* My younger daughter is the one who piped up this time (whoops–too soon for a “piper” mention) when I asked for suggestions about Nine Ladies Dancing as part of this special 12 Days of Christmas here on Hot Off the Vine. “Tell them how much fun it is to dance around the living room [...] |
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