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January 07, 2008
News?
I know, I know. I've had a few desperate emails asking whether we fell off the face of the earth. Just busy with the holidays, and life, and all the other noise that seems unfitting to blog about. But I realize that in order to keep the hits on the website increasing, one must give people a reasons to visit, no?
Our holiday season this year was really quite fun. We picked out a beautiful Douglas fir tree in early December, and while they wrapped it in environmentally-unfriendly plastic netting, we scooted into Rite-Aid to buy some environmentally-friendly pine-cone shaped LED lights. Heaving the tree on my shoulder, and Chis with his canvas bag full of LED lights, we walked home to set up our tree. The tree seemed huge on the street, but when we set it up, it was tiny. Even a 7-foot tree look tiny in a room with 14-foot ceilings. The trouble is, a bigger tree has a bigger base, which, for those of you who have seen our tiny apartment, would require less furniture. And less furniture would require storage, which is in scarce supply.
Nevertheless, a stunning wreath from the farmer's market at Union Square, the tree and a beautiful poinsettia from my parents, and the place looked really festive.
DP & AJ arrived Saturday December 22 and were with us until Boxing Day (NOT a holiday in the US). We had a wonderful time. Christmas is a time to spend with family, and these two are definitely part of our family.
Jim & Luc, with whom we have spent EVERY New Year's Eve for the past 15 years (except 2005 in the Bahamas and 2006 in New York), arrived on December 28 and left us on January 1. Yet another fond memory of New Year's, which was, as always, a joyous feast resulting from 48 hours and shopping and cooking.
The apartment seems to be returning to normal. Although, I did manage to clog the kitchen drain with garberator-guck last night. I had the whole thing pulled apart today, and I expected to find a large decomposing cabbage, but instead found a rancid bundle of coffee grinds, rosemary twigs, celery strands and onion skins.
I'm off to Aruba on Janauary 18 to meet Mike & Judy on PorFin (the three of us sailed Puerto Rico to Bonaire in November). This journey will be about 600 miles from Aruba to the San Blas Islands in Panama. It should take us about 4 to 5 days. I am TRES excited!
Posted by dave at January 7, 2008 07:44 PM