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Tag Archives: Winter
Two-Day Holidays. With Food.
Kage Baker never felt that a single day was sufficient for a holiday. She stretched birthdays into celebratory weeks. The run up to Halloween lasted a whole month of steadily increasing lights and Beistle paper decorations and bowls of rehearsal … Continue reading
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Tagged duck, fried pudding, kage baker, pizza, sleep, Solstice, Winter
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Days, Quarter Days, Cross-Quarter Days. And Saturday.
Kage Baker always reverently observed the Quarter Days, the 4 great horological linchpins of the astronomical year. Two Solstices, two Equinoxes – tidy and convenient. Everybody knows about these; all calendars show them, evening newscasters announce their coming to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Beltane, Fall, Imbolc, kage baker, Lughnahsa, Lughnasadh., Samhain, Spring, Summer, Winter
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Yeah, Winter *Was* Coming
Kage Baker had the metabolism of a salamander. Not the terrestrial kind, that indulge in so many eccentricities of size and habitat – from the Chinese kind that are 7 feet long and look like bloated corpses; to those Lolita … Continue reading
Let’s Have A Quiet Start to Winter
Kage Baker would have been sent into a contented coma by the weather today. She was prone to hibernation; she hated being cold and would cocoon as soon as the temperature dropped below 60 degrees. This was one of the … Continue reading
Solstice Night
Kage Baker always observed the quarter days. They’re old, old, old holidays, the solstices and equinoxes; originally of practical use in establishing when to plant and harvest crops, or when we can expect expect the glaciers to move back up the … Continue reading