Goodnight Christmas!

Lovely day, outside rain and gloom, inside greetings galore, dms, texts, tweets, emails, so much.

I posted a Christmas selfie tweet.

With the Official Ceremonial Pearls, a sweater from me to me, exactly what I've been looking for for years, and the Vest of Many Colors.

New readers: many years ago my now late partner gave me these pearls as a special gift, and they've since been the official jewelry for every event, partly a little in joke, partly a serious memory of him. 

And older established readers of this blog lived through the creation of the vest, from my spindle spinning and plying the yarn, to diagonally  knitting the body and weaving the yoke and assembling it into a favorite item.

The black eye effect is the healing process from recent facial surgery and some fancy repair work. It's coming along fine. 

Handsome Son arrived at noon and set up  bread sticks and two cheeses.  Then on to ham, mixed vegetables, pumpkin puree, Yukon gold potatoes, boiled and buttered, a range of condiments, including the apricot sauce, a success, various mustards and pickles. Ginger ale.

Then German cookies, tiny chocolate snowmen, eggnog.

Later pot of tea to revive us after the feasting.

Handsome Son departed with leftovers, and a good day was had by all.

It was low-key, just peaceful chatting, catch up, very harmonious. Suits us both.

And so to bed...