Wednesday, December 31, 2008
EVERY OTHER YEAR RESOLUTION
It’s something I like to do, and my personal cookbook has grown a lot in the past few years.
The opposite (even numbered) year that I don’t make a resolution,
I get to retry some of those recipes,
and make my own personal adjustments.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
SEAS0N’S GREETINGS
I’m busy putting the last touches on my Christmas gifts. It seems like I never stop till the holiday is over.
Happy Holidays Everyone!!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Long night
This year December 21 is the Northern Hemisphere’s winter solstice, the shortest day - and longest night - of the year.
This is a day I look forward to every year. It means that we’ll have longer days each day till summer.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Almost Done
and tonight we’re off to see “A Christmas Carol” at a local theater.
All fun, but I wish we could stretch all of this out over a longer time period.
We bought the last gift yesterday(at least I think it’s the last gift), and they are all wrapped.
The tree is trimmed, and the stockings are not hung by the chimney with care (that comes later)
I love the holiday season, but it certainly takes up just about all of my spare time for a month or so.
It feels good to be ready a few days early!
Now I think I’ll put my feet up and enjoy a glass of eggnog!
CHEERS! 
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Holiday Concert
Last weekend we went to a concert – The Many Moods of Christmas presented by the Warminster Symphony Orchestra. It was wonderful.
The Capital Singers of Trenton and the Trenton Community Singers were the guest artists.
What a great way to start the Holiday Season!
Sunday, December 07, 2008
hanging gardens?
Don and I were watching the History Channel this morning, and they indicated that this very famous garden may never have existed.
That came as quite a shock to me.
This legendary garden, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, was built on the banks of the Euphrates river circa 600 B.C.
It may never have existed except in the imagination of Greek poets and historians although archaeologists claim to have found the remains of its walls.
Most scholars attribute its construction to King Nebuchadnezzar II to console his Median wife, Amytis, who missed the mountains and greenery of her home land.
Others contend that it was the work of the semi-legendary Assyrian Queen Sammu-Ramat (Semiramis in Greek).
The Gardens didn’t really “hang” but were built on terraces which were part of the ziggurat and was irrigated by water lifted up from the Euphrates.
There is not a single mention of a “hanging garden” in the Babylon cuneiform record but this is probably because it was considered part of the ziggurat structure and not a separate entity in itself.
Now I’m really confused.
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Go Team Go
