Winter Solstice -Blogmas Day 21

      It is the shortest day of the year for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere-the Winter Solstice. Tomorrow, daylight in incrementa minutes will be added. It sure felt like the shortest day this morning. No alarm on my phone, but my internal alarm still had me awake at 5:00. It was hours before we had  light, 7:46 to be exact. Sunset will be 4:34! Kids aren't even home from school, if they are going to school in a building, by then.. I don't know much about meteorology, or astronomy, and definitely not much about the two combined. ALl I know is that the fact that we are gaining a minute or two of sunlight a day from here on out is what keeps me relatively  sane in January and February. 

     This year, there is supposed to a bright visible star in the sky tonight, some calling it the Christmas Star or Star of Bethlehem. It's going to be so much more visible than a typical star, brighter than it supposedly has been for 800 years, due to Jupiter and Saturn being closer than they have been in centuries. Technically not a star at all, but I won't doubt anyone's beliefs this year as all need to believe what works for their own faith and spirituality. It's a reason to get DH's massive Telescope outside tonight-maybe we'll have better luck than we did chasing after Northern Lights. Will you be doing any looking tonight?

     Nothing to report on the snow front. We had a few  flakes, but this little bit that is on the ground near the fire ring is more just a frosty mist than flakes that accumulated. Pup was intrigued with it yesterday. 

     We've not had other sightings of snow, or Christmas to come either as we sort of hunkered down yesterday. DD2's bestie stopped over to see her yesterday and I was able to send home treats and her families card. Her mom is one of the "mom's", and I miss not seeing all my girls. I wouldn't see her much anyway as she is a photographer and did a bang up business with holiday and family photos in November and up until yesterday, after which she declared herself off-duty. I suppose like holiday decorations being early and maxed out, family photos when a family can get together, and to send as gifts when they can't, are another mark of Christmas 2020. 

     I picked up these cute  plates and napkins, two of the plates to use one for cookie trays. I had an idea to do something with both as a craft, and darn if I can remember either. It's like I said to my brother and his wife when I dropped cards and treats off to them (oreo truffles, rolos, and  Mounds as different than she makes), and saw her new Tree centerpiece. It looked like someone hot glued a cone shaped styrofoam cone on an old candy dish, then used  sweater materials, in different shades of green, to form a tree. Totally cute, easy, and something I could muster up-but, as I said, would mark for a craft that would never get done. I'll stick to looking for ting in distant skies, but who knows? Maybe there will be a craft or two before the year is out. .

Link to madincrafts.com