My Xmas Stocking (Now Mended!)

( my xmas stocking )

Oh, why not?

Recipe that Texans -- even Austin hippies -- wouldn't eat

-- at least, according to ayeamspartacus (who then hinted that he'd like to see it)...

( Vegan Harvest Chili )

Even more odd timing

I wrote before that my Dad died on Dec. 8 (1988), my mother-in-law had surgery this past Dec. 8 for the same kind of cancer that killed my dad, and that her BIL died that same night. Yesterday I learned that her grandson and his wife had a daughter this weekend. We don't know if it was Dec. 9 or 10. But as she said, one generation gives way to another. Circle of life.

Welcome, little Lucy.