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Short stories, news on Ma's knitting and spinning as well as bits about WAFA, my isms and more from Zen Mountain's Homestead
The poem captures a whimsical Christmas Eve at Zen, where a busy hen prepares for Santa's arrival while various animals engage in festive activities. As anticipation builds, Santa arrives, sharing joy, gifts, and laughter with the family and their furry friends. The atmosphere is filled with warmth and cheer, emphasizing the spirit of giving and togetherness during the holiday season.
Well, We are back for a catcher-upper through the seasons this year. We should have our first actual snows coming in any eve now. The snow level is suppose to drop down around our ears tonight or tomorrow night. The predictions we have seen so far for the winter have more than not said that... Continue Reading →
And we are into Winter now. Temps are still great ; hovering between upper twenties and even touching 40F every so often. We get snow, snow melts. We get rain....well, I don't have to shovel rain so yippie. So far, bad weather is holding off.. the longer , the better..so long as winter doesn't actually... Continue Reading →
Another Christmas has come and gone with the beginning of a new year looming just ahead. But, that's for another day. We did, in fact, get snow on Christmas..... Ma; my better half, and I were out in the covered porch when the rain mixed in some snow...and we watched as it went back to... Continue Reading →
Twas the Night Before Christmas Twas the night before Christmas and though it seldom gets loud We were all snuggled in to our winter's ice cloud The night view was quite grand at least for a few feet You can hear the tinkling sound of mixed rain and fine sleet Ma and I sat all... Continue Reading →
Happy Yule. We are just starting Yule off, with Christmas coming in fast.. Yes, they are different... Pagan vs Christian..in a nut shell, however, ... ask anyone that knows me... especially from the last thirty some years, I am well known as being "Jolly".. Here , we celebrate the Season without the religious package.. or... Continue Reading →
SO mostly Zen Animal stories This and Next Weekend, then, of course; Zen's 10th Night before Christmas....in case that wasn't enough of a clue, I'll post that on.........you got this!.......I believe in you!..................gawhhhhh fine.... December 24th. I'll try to get it up early, you know ; prepping for the Faaaammmmillllyyy so a nice pre mayhem... Continue Reading →
Welcome back to Zen Mountain.. Another week has come and gone , bringing some pleasant changes, at least for the now.. For the last couple weeks now, our resident winter cloud has been a bit of a pill... relatively speaking. Turkey Day, we knew we had the swap in our winds changing, as it does... Continue Reading →
I hope everyone had a nice Turkey Day. I know not everyone celebrates the day the same. I can remember fondly ; spending the day at the parent's place, of course, as kids but also as we got older: Things really did start changing as us kids got our own places and we started moving... Continue Reading →
We have been very fortunate to have our rainy season continuing with gusto after a fairly dry summer. After having one decent rain between the end of April and the end of October, having rain every day is glorious for us. We didn't put out our gauge this year...oops.. But, we haven't gotten rain like... Continue Reading →
Zen Mountain's Sunday Post and Short Stories