+++Merry Christmas+++
Today is the big day when families get together and celebrate in their way the time of the year….it will be filled gifts, food, joy and lots of napping.
I shall be busy once again with meal prep from cooking the ham and mac and cheese while my daughter will be in charge of the sides like corn, peas, bean casserole and sweet potatoes….Sue’s son will be in charge of the dessert and of course yours truly will bring the wine to the meal.
I thought that I would give my readers some FYI about Christmas superstitions….
Whether it’s kissing under the mistletoe or first-footing after midnight at New Year, the holiday season comes with more than its fair share of superstitions and good-luck traditions.
Aside from all the ones we still know and follow today, though, the history books are full of all kinds of bizarre festive quirks and folklore, all intended to ensure a happy Christmas or long-lasting good luck into the year ahead. Five of the most peculiar and longest-forgotten of these are explored here.
Look closely enough at a Christmas tree in parts of Scandinavia, and you might see a small straw effigy of a goat, tied up in red ribbons, hanging from one of its frontmost branches. Wander the streets of a nearby town, meanwhile, and you might see a larger one outside a local business—or, in parts of Sweden at least, an enormous one in the town square.
This is the julbock, or “Yule goat”—a traditional decoration, often said to bring good luck and bounty in the year ahead. The origins of the julbock are thought to date back to pre-Christian times.
https://www.mentalfloss.com/holidays/christmas/christmas-superstitions-probably-never-knew
We all have some traditions we try to uphold but there also some superstitions that some observe….
I hope everyone got the things they had on there list and that your day with family, friends, food and football was safe one…..
I hope the rest of your day is filled with joy…..
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My Christmas is wonderful…no hassle, no rush, no worrying about what to feed a gang of people…none of that bullshit–just Jimmy and me, not even a christmas tree–and of course one of Jimmy’s fantastic gourmet christmas dinners.
come to think of it, mine was pretty uneventful. emptied a mouse trap, vacuumed the diningroom, watched the Muppet movie (sniffle) and watched the snow fall off the trees. Yours sounds almost as exciting. =)
Sounds wonderful…..chuq
i’d love to share christmas this year, but the mr. has become scrooge, and frankly the effort to decorate a tree that no one will see or drive 100 miles to someone else’s xmas has just been too much to consider. Not bah humbug, but sometimes you just have to let go. I wish you all well, and light a candle for us. Maybe next year.
I feel pretty much the same way Judy….have a great day. chuq
A friend of mine who lives about half the year in Barcelona introduced me to the “El Caganer” figurines that are, for some bizarre reason, popular in the Catalan areas of Spain. It means literally “the pooper”. It is a figure that appears in nativity scenes who is literally, well there is no polite way to put it. The figure is literally squatting down, trousers down around ankles, taking a dump.
He brought back several of them, some made to look like not so popular political figures. I am the proud owner of a statuette of Trump, squatting down, trousers down, with the expression of a man who’s been constipated for years, doing, well, doing you know what. It occupies a prominant place next to my statue of Trump wearing nothing but a pink, satin thong and angel wings, pole dancing in a strip club while Elon Musk tucks a $1,000 bill into his thong.
LOL Love it. Hope you and Mrs GF have a great Christmas. chuq
I’m happy to hear that you had family over to celebrate with. I had a great day off from cooking yesterday, as Julie did all the traditional meal, with turkey and all the trimmings. I managed to finish a whole bottle of Australian Shiraz during the course of the evening, and we were both in bed and asleep before 10:30pm!
Best wishes, Pete.
Sounds like a relaxing and enjoyable day….chuq