Eliza Daley ~ Wordcraft & Musing on Home & Hope
I like days that have symmetry. Doesn't mean a thing, but it makes my goofy brain happy... Things to look forward to... baking something for someone My birthday is this week. It's supposed to be rainy and just above freezing. Maybe just below freezing. Either way, there are winter weather warnings for the next three… Continue reading The Daily: 24 January 24
These last few days we have been reminded that we live at high latitude and altitude here in Central Vermont. Temperatures have been hovering near 0°F. Saturday, it snowed all day, but it was so cold that it was falling as frozen mist, the individual flakes nearly invisible. But after eighteen hours of mist, there… Continue reading The Daily: 22 January 2024
Today, we remember Martin Luther King Jr on his actual birthday, rather than the closest Monday. Here is a good recording of one of the more well-known reasons we celebrate this man's life. I am home today for a change. This is the first job I've had in a long while that takes time out to… Continue reading The Daily: 15 January 2024
The third moon in my lunar year, the Wolf Moon, is new today. It is new between 28 December and 25 January; it’s full between 11 January and 8 February. This is the coldest time of year in the North. It is when stores of food are running low and hunger is stalking every home. This inhospitable month… Continue reading The Daily: 12 January 2024
Distaff Day, or St. Distaff’s Day, is an obscure and faded custom that has rather a bit more weight behind it that one might expect. The day is observed most often on January 7th, the day after Epiphany, the last day of the winter holidays. Less commonly, Distaff Day falls on the first Tuesday after Epiphany, being known as Distaff Tuesday in keeping with Plough Monday.
Plough Monday, an ancient rustic holiday that became attached to the Christmas holiday tradition, is on the first Monday following Epiphany (January 6). It is the traditional beginning of the agricultural year.
Take down all your Christmas ornaments by Twelfth Night to avoid bad luck for the rest of the year. — The Magpie and the Wardrobe by Sam McKechnie & Alexandrine Portelli I don't actually do this. I used to fret because I did not, or was not able to... because there are all these admonitions,… Continue reading The Daily: 5 January 2024
I have COVID again. So there may be illogic in the days ahead. Apologies... On the other hand, I am not allowed to be at work, and there isn't much work to do around the house. (And I can't do much anyway. COVID and rheumatoid arthritis don't get along. For example, my knees are swollen… Continue reading The Daily: 4 January 2024
I am almost caught up with all the things that need doing. I have to send out one box, but since my family does the full Twelve Days, it doesn't need to get there immediately. Which is good because the main thing that I need to ship in that box is not here yet. I'm… Continue reading The Daily: 18 December 2023
Saturnalia Saturnalia begins today. This year Saturn presides over the beginning of his holiday season. Look to the west at about 5:30pm. Saturn will be sitting just above the crescent Moon. In the north, this is also the beginning of the shortest nights of the year. For the next ten days, day length in my… Continue reading The Daily: 17 December 2023
By My Solitary Hearth 