Santa Came Through. ..

With flying colors. Colors of alpaca yarn that is. My two favorite gifts? Several skeins of plush, lush, warm and soft "eco" alpaca (I guess that means the alpacas are raised with love in environmentally and socially sustainable networks. . .) yarn from James and Gloria. I have already cast on a scarf. It might be for me, but it will probably be for Steve because he loves them so much. Just knitting this stuff is a vast pleasure. Other favorite gift? A book on Runes, the Anglo Saxon Rune poems, the heroic epics and the Prose Eddas from Steve. Yes, I am a nerd. Happily so. When Nordic esoterica gets to be to much, I can always pick up a mystery or something. We have plenty of genre books around these days. Steve also got me a GPS, but I made him promise to set it up and show me how to use it otherwise it will sit unused. Most of today will be a cooking day. But I'm okay with that - and I love having people here - the house gets really clean. Steve talked to Julia on the phone - she's not joining us - and in great detail described the meal we were having, until she told him to stop. So in keeping with the sensitive theme, here's some pictures of yummy food we're eating.

In your honor Sarah, I promise. The pumpkin roll is courtesy of Jon and we collaborated on the log. Yum. And then at some point the excess comes to an end. Really. Until the next feast days.