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Community => Events => Topic started by: Perris on December 20, 2017, 05:29:24 pm

Title: solstice tomorrow
Post by: Perris on December 20, 2017, 05:29:24 pm
then the nights start drawing out again - hooray!  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: solstice tomorrow
Post by: Fleecewife on December 20, 2017, 05:34:04 pm
Our goose is just waiting to be stuffed for tomorrow  :yum:  but we haven't even chosen the Yule log yet  :xmaswindow:


Can hardly wait for those nights to start drawing out.
Title: Re: solstice tomorrow
Post by: DavidandCollette on December 20, 2017, 06:23:19 pm
Get those fires put! Let the feasting begin! The Green Man is set to return. Happy Yuletide to you all
Title: Re: solstice tomorrow
Post by: philcaegrug on December 20, 2017, 09:36:51 pm
Shortest day tomorrow for my birthday (22nd) to come quicker  :excited:
Title: Re: solstice tomorrow
Post by: JTFarms on December 21, 2017, 06:38:03 am
Happy Winter Solstice everyone! ????
Title: Re: solstice tomorrow
Post by: Fleecewife on December 21, 2017, 12:18:24 pm
Happy Winter Solstice everyone! ??? ?


Why the  ??? ? ?  I don't understand  :thinking:
Title: Re: solstice tomorrow
Post by: DavidandCollette on December 22, 2017, 09:50:50 am
Google it FW and you will find out how Xmas originated. Btw Santa is only red because coca cola made him so for their ad
Title: Re: solstice tomorrow
Post by: Fleecewife on December 22, 2017, 12:33:23 pm
As I understand it, the Solstice is the shortest day and longest night of that year in the northern hemisphere, therefore the first day of the new year, and also the first day of winter, celebrated by agricultural societies for centuries.  Christmas was chosen by the Christian church as a suitable day for a 'holy' feast, as close to the solstice as possible so people were already celebrating it anyway.  Santa was green and has nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas or the Solstice, other than supposedly being St Nicholas/Claus.


I still don't understand why JTFarms put a  ???  emoji after his wishes. OK, I'm a  :dunce:  . We celebrate the Solstice as being the shortest day, so the beginning of longer daylight hours, not for any religious or cult significance, just as Christmas is just the opportunity for a family get together not a form of Christian fest.


Anyway, the goose was perfect, the yule log is gracing the fireplace to be burnt next year, the old log is burnt and our mood is lifted by the promise of more daylight  :sunshine: :farmer: :garden: