Christmas is just two days away. This is a very odd season for me this year. With a newly-empty nest, my husband turned and looked at me and asked ‘did Christmas sneak up on you, too, this year?’ Yes, yes it did. No presents (I’ll buy the adult children gift cards or send cash, the husband-thing doesn’t do gifts), no tree…
Well. The tree did happen, in a way that amused me and kept the cats from being destructive.
When you have a certain kind of friends, then you can invite them for dinner and add the caveat that they should bring an ornament – empty brass. You will get a good variety of calibres with which to decorate the twig-tree. Not shown (they came later) are the ’round from the Holy Land’ of Israeli Military Issue, and the shotgun shell in a festive red.
Here in Texas a White Christmas is neither expected nor wanted. This morning we have a dense fog warning, and when I went out to check the rain gauge, the ground is wet, the outside of the gauge is wet, but the inside is bone dry. I suspect Christmas morning will be no different. The weather guesser says it’ll be a sunny and mild Christmas day. I will spend it working for the Day Job, then a potluck gathering with friends. My son came for his visit early to deal with stuff, so he won’t be back on Christmas Day. It will be a quiet day with the cats. It’s a very different life, all of a sudden eighteen years in the making.
So here are some gifts for you, Gentle Readers.
A full audiobook (and illustrated) of The Princess and the Goblin
A fully illustrated audiobook of the Just So Stories
May you have a calm and gentle Christmas, with fog to wrap you up in quiet and stillness.
Kittyboo is the latest member of our family. We gave her a home because Lawdog and his Lady couldn’t take her in, after she’d been living under their porch for months. Her kittens found homes but somehow this adorable petite little lady didn’t have the same appeal. Since I was already planning a companion for Toast when my son takes his cat to live with him, it was easy enough to move that timeline and take Kittyboo in. She remembered Lawdog’s Lady and called for her, in a raspy meow, as soon as they came over for a quiet supper. She’d been ghost-cat for weeks, but last night broke the dam of her reserve.
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9 responses to “On a Foggy Christmas”
No snow for Maine, either. We’re not sad. Ya’ll have a Merry!
My part of Illinois is going to have a rainy Christmas. 😀
There’s hope! We adopted our adult kitties on 31July2021 and two years later, they’re slowly warming up to us. We are permitted to pet Sasha and sometimes, even pick her up. Lulu is friendly. Madeline still skitters away when a leaf falls outside.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
It was foggy this morning, but the chance for rain the next two days is high.
It’s looking like sweater weather for Christmas here. Kittyboo’s coat has almost a bengal pattern to it 🙂
40s and rain for Christmas in Northwest Washington. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
We have been grey and damp, then dark and loud, with abrupt purple flashes and moments not at all dark. I’m glad we’re 50 F instead of 70 F. Next comes stout north winds and clear skies. Typical Texas in December. 😛
Jase cat is supposed to be 10 years old. He acts like he’s 5 with gusts of 6 months. He’s sweet, derpy, and probably half to a quarter Siamese (the loud, narrow-faced quarter). For that reason we have no ornaments on the tree this year.
Merry eve of Christmas Eve, Ya’ll!
Bah! Humbug!