Month: December 2014
Sledding the day after Christmas
The hill wasn’t too steep but at least it was close to the house. We made a snow ramp and had a rough time hitting it. The beagle had fun.
Christmas morning time lapse
An hour of Christmas morning excitement summed up in 40 seconds:
Little Drummer Boy
The cousins are visiting from Portland and formed an impromptu quartet — violin, oboe, ukulele, and tambourine. Here’s a Sufjan Stevens-esque The Little Drummer Boy:
The Christmas Truce
100 years ago, in December 1914, World War I was about 5 months old. In August, the Germans had initially moved rapidly through Luxembourg and Belgium on their way to France. Allied defenses held them at a battle line called The Western Front. By December casualties were high and all both sides could do was…
