Solstice, part 1
Dec. 19th, 2011 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
helwenOakstone celebrated Solstice yesterday morning. Cold but sunny, so not too long outside but I still enjoyed it. Followed with good companionship for a few hours with fellow grove members.
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[EDIT: went to Amherst kung fu school and picked up the extender pole we'd lent to Sifu for painting the new school in Springfield. [/EDIT]
Then off to a friend's 40th birthday party -- a surprise successfully pulled off by his wife. His b-day's on Dec. 24, so he'd given up on ever having a party of any sort, given many of his friends and family would be busy with Christmas eve. activities -- so a doubly pleasing party :)
Interestingly, I'd say all the presents will get fair use - an ornament (dragon resting on a wreath, that he'd been admiring), a soft puppet in his heraldic colors (which undoubtedly will get used to entertainment their child), a superheroes t-shirt featuring Captain America prominently, maple brick pops in a leather pouch and also a bottle of mead (from me and L), and rather a lot of books. Some of the books may come in handy at work, it turns out... he's gotten permission to teach an additional class, and hopes to make it one on some the history of medieval tech - how and why things developed, etc.
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There was a chance to go to another solstice celebration in Buckland, but we passed on that for the chance to go back to S and J's to hang out for a bit more, before heading home.
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Part 2 Solstice will likely by Ashfield's on Thursday evening, unless I'm inspired to stay up Wednesday until 12:38 a.m. for the astronomical time...
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Time to go wash eggs. Delivery to make, and more flyers to put up for the Ashfield celebration.
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[EDIT: went to Amherst kung fu school and picked up the extender pole we'd lent to Sifu for painting the new school in Springfield. [/EDIT]
Then off to a friend's 40th birthday party -- a surprise successfully pulled off by his wife. His b-day's on Dec. 24, so he'd given up on ever having a party of any sort, given many of his friends and family would be busy with Christmas eve. activities -- so a doubly pleasing party :)
Interestingly, I'd say all the presents will get fair use - an ornament (dragon resting on a wreath, that he'd been admiring), a soft puppet in his heraldic colors (which undoubtedly will get used to entertainment their child), a superheroes t-shirt featuring Captain America prominently, maple brick pops in a leather pouch and also a bottle of mead (from me and L), and rather a lot of books. Some of the books may come in handy at work, it turns out... he's gotten permission to teach an additional class, and hopes to make it one on some the history of medieval tech - how and why things developed, etc.
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There was a chance to go to another solstice celebration in Buckland, but we passed on that for the chance to go back to S and J's to hang out for a bit more, before heading home.
***
Part 2 Solstice will likely by Ashfield's on Thursday evening, unless I'm inspired to stay up Wednesday until 12:38 a.m. for the astronomical time...
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Time to go wash eggs. Delivery to make, and more flyers to put up for the Ashfield celebration.
