Dec 14th 2019

The tradition of wassailing falls into two distinct categories: the house-visiting wassail and the orchard-visiting wassail. The house-visiting wassail is the practice of people going door-to-door, singing and offering a drink from the wassail bowl in exchange for gifts; this practice still exists, but has largely been displaced by caroling. The orchard-visiting wassail refers to the ancient custom of visiting orchards in cider-producing regions of England, reciting incantations and singing to the trees to promote a good harvest for the coming year.

I swear I have lost my mind.

I had the whole bed to myself

And was up before 8am!!!!

I got dressed, straightened up,

Put a pot of chili on,

And was at the grocery store

Before 8:30AM!!!!!!

At the hair dresser for 9am!!!

Shoppers for some household basics.

Liquor store at 10am

And came home.

Into work clothes and it was time.

Time to get all the 1,000 tiny chores

Hanging around done.

The morning was spent

Putting away groceries,

Ironing curtains, clearing counters

And decorating the window.

Then it was time to pull out the old stove.

Cleaned the bathroom,

Folded some laundry,

And straightened a bunch of piddly

Things bothering me in the living room.

Back to the kitchen

And I made a new curtain for the island.

When John got up

The new stove went in.

Yayay!!!

Next the front porch.

It has taken a year

But the door curtain is finally made

And it matches every other curtain now!

I cleaned out and donated

A bunch of items in my coat closet

And got the Disney decor placed.

About 6pm I whipped up

The coleslaw for lunch tomorrow

And started making the bread

Dad asked for too.

Ribs were marinating

So John threw them into the smoker.

I spent the evening creating 32 decorator

Tea lights for Valleyview's Gift shop,

Packed a bunch of projects

For Dad to get done

And packed plates etc for lunch.

Now I need sleep.

Good night from John Street