Happy winter solstice everyone

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TexOmega

·Dec 21, 2020

Sunny, Blue skies and 72 degrees here at the Outpost on the Sabine River, at the edge of the frontier.

Sunset 5:24, Mead chillin' in the creek.......

 

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alam

·Dec 21, 2020

it’s a rough winter solstice here on the west coast 🙄

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KAP

·Dec 22, 2020

Goethe's final words: Mehr Licht! or "More light." Ever since we crawled out of that primordial slime, that's been our unifying cry: "More light." Sunlight. Torchlight. Candlight. Incandescent. LED. Lights that banish the darkness from our caves, to illuminate the insides of our refrigerators. Light is more than watts. Light is metaphor.

Light is knowledge. Light is life. Light is light. We welcome that increasing light beyond the winter solstice to carry us forward. Light here at 61 degrees north is more than the 5 1/2 hours of the solstice sunrise to set. Celebrate the solstice, welcome the light, and embrace enlightenment!

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mountainunder

·Dec 22, 2020

In Japan, it is customary to eat pumpkin on the winter solstice.😀

 

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abrod520

·Dec 22, 2020

I always prefer to mark the 22nd, or "we finally start getting longer daylight hours again" day 😀

 

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DaveK

·Dec 22, 2020

M mountainunder

In Japan, it is customary to eat pumpkin on the winter solstice.😀

I can get on board with that 👍

 

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alam

·Dec 22, 2020

M mountainunder

In Japan, it is customary to eat pumpkin on the winter solstice.😀

does pumpkin bread count? 😀

 

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DaveK

·Dec 22, 2020

alam

does pumpkin bread count? 😀

Good question, I was assuming it wasn’t raw pumpkin in the menu 🍿

 

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BlackTalon

·Dec 22, 2020·This Space for Rent

M mountainunder

In Japan, it is customary to eat pumpkin on the winter solstice.😀

Hmmm, does leftover spicy orange beef (Chinese-American dish) count? It was pretty good, so maybe I will try and make that a Washington, DC-region custom.

 

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jaguar11

·Dec 22, 2020

May brighter days follow what seems like a long darkness....

 

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LesXL

·Dec 22, 2020

M mountainunder

In Japan, it is customary to eat pumpkin on the winter solstice.😀

Just had pumpkin soup... Worse part is that we were supposed to go to Japan in April this year 🙁

 

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pdxleaf

·Dec 22, 2020·"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"

May the sun warm your darkest days,
And you find peace along the way.

 

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mountainunder

·Dec 23, 2020

alam

does pumpkin bread count? 😀

DaveK

Good question, I was assuming it wasn’t raw pumpkin in the menu 🍿

BlackTalon

Hmmm, does leftover spicy orange beef (Chinese-American dish) count? It was pretty good, so maybe I will try and make that a Washington, DC-region custom.

LesXL

Just had pumpkin soup... Worse part is that we were supposed to go to Japan in April this year 🙁

Any pumpkin can be in any state.
Or raw pumpkin, of course.
I think I eat a lot of simmered pumpkin.

If coming to Japan, have fun.
If it's work, good luck.
I'll be waiting for you in Japan!

 

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Vercingetorix

·Dec 21, 2021·Spam Risk

2021

 

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tpatta

·Dec 21, 2021·Happily spending my daughter’s inheritance

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Sunny and a projected high of 82 F in LA, we badly need some rain. 🙁

The rain is coming tomorrow evening and Thursday. Boy do we need it.

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tpatta

·Dec 21, 2021·Happily spending my daughter’s inheritance

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Horrible longest/shortest day of winter/year.

I really don't know how we get through all the horrid weather we have here in SoCal. 😁

 

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gbesq

·Dec 21, 2021

Here’s a photo to put things in perspective. This was Kansas last week. My daughter has a horse farm there. That isn’t a mountain in the background. It’s a wall cloud and these often spawn tornadoes. No tornadoes in her locale, but they did have sustained winds of 45 mph with gusts to 100 mph. Some minor damage, but could have been a lot worse. So a little darkness during the winter doesn’t really bother me.

 

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pdxleaf

·Dec 21, 2021·"I cut it TWICE and it's still short!"

gbesq

Here’s a photo to put things in perspective. This was Kansas last week. My daughter has a horse farm there. That isn’t a mountain in the background. It’s a wall cloud and these often spawn tornadoes. No tornadoes in her locale, but they did have sustained winds of 45 mph with gusts to 100 mph. Some minor damage, but could have been a lot worse. So a little darkness during the winter doesn’t really bother me.

Hopefully that's not 2022 bearing down on us.

Remember when we were saying thank god 2020 is in the review view mirror?

 

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Foo2rama

·Dec 21, 2021·Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...

pdxleaf

Hopefully that's not 2022 bearing down on us.

Remember when we were saying thank god 2020 is in the review view mirror?

My shirt is currently

For a reason.

 

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Waltesefalcon

·Dec 21, 2021

It's going to be sunny and 60° today in SW Oklahoma.