We have several "reservations" already, guests planning to come visit during this festive season ahead. The coming weekend will bring Joe, Kathie, and Josh for a pasta supper on Saturday evening; and before that, during the day we are assigned to provide lunch for the Bracken Brae work crew (they dig trenches for the neighbors who are in danger of rainy weather flooding; we feed the ditch-diggers)..... Next weekend, my young friend Janelle, in grad school at Berkeley, will come for an overnight, overdue first visit. On Christmas Day, Julie and the Drysdale crew will come for dinner and festivities around our tree. During the week following, we hope Caitlin will be coming down from the far and frozen North, on her way through a road-trip to California during her school holiday. We're hoping Robert and Marie will find time to come by also, some time during this season. And right after New Year's Day, we plan a small adults-only Wassail Party to celebrate Three Kings Day/Twelfth Night and to bid farewell to the season.
We have a couple or three little outings planned for ourselves, nothing big; mostly we look forward to lovely warm evenings by the fire, with good music and wine and food – and love in abundance.
As for "Keeping The Feast" – we have our Sunday wreath liturgies, as well as services at St. Andrew's lovely little Kirk o'The Woods in the mornings; I'm working on my Meditation for this blog, to come later; and on Christmas Eve morning, we'll keep our tradition of attending virtual Vespers, the beloved "Carols From Kings College, Cambridge", via the magic of the blessed BBC and NPR airwaves, as we sip hot cocoa by the fire in our PJ's – the easiest and loveliest "church service" you could ever imagine!
I'm hoping that as you read these Advent notes here, you may add your own comments about how your holiday season is shaping up!
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We had layoffs, the other developer on my project quit and the client decided to become more insane than usual at the last minute. Looks like wise men will be late to the party, once again this year.
We have decided that this year is local giving, minimal gifting (grandparents will be receiving grandparent-y things :-)), and going to visit the people we've been missing for too long. Well, we miss everyone, but we're seeing those we can.
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