Thursday, December 21, 2006

Winter Solstice

I'm not sure what we're supposed to do today.

Dance around the Festivus Pole?

Set up a tiny cardboard Stonehenge?

Who cares? As of tomorrow we'll start having more minutes of daylight*. Huzzah!

I feel more chipper already.



*except for the Southern Hemisphere, of course, where they'll have fewer minutes of daylight. Boo.

11 comments:

cityofmushrooms said...

go for a walk at noon! suck up some rays! (sundown here at 4:15 pm so there's not a whole lot of rays to go around)

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Our sunset is also around 4:15. Sunrise around 7:30. What is your sunrise? Noon?

Anonymous said...

Sunrise, Sunset...who cares? as long as I'm still walking around in shoes, I'm happier than a minisculed-membered mambo instructor with a lifetime supply of Wang-Enhancing Doritos.

JAW fan

cityofmushrooms said...

I think sunrise is around 8:40

cityofmushrooms said...

you funny, JAW fan-
tho I curse you for putting "sunrise, sunset" into my head

Anonymous said...

Could have been worse...could have been "If I Were a Rich Man"

or for La Nanuk: "Jubilation T. Cornpone...ol' toot your own hornpone!"

JAW fan

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

Hey, watch it. You know how I feel about dead-mountain-climber overload! grrr

Anonymous said...

Thank you for mention oh great Christmas elf. However, we're on day 3 of 35C or over and quite frankly, its hard to imagine anything cold, except for my fridge, which I would gladly live in right now (by the way, warmest December night for 45 years last night - 30C)

Anonymous said...

But! It has just rained for 15 whole minutes.....very exciting! And can you believe, the forcast is for one of our coolest Christmas days ever? But still our PM says there is no global warming.

Nanuk of the North, older but no wiser said...

15 minutes! Wow. Well, there's your Chrismas present. Hope you enjoyed it.

Now the whole country can concentrate on being enraged that that Indonesian imam was found not guilty. Merry Christmas indeed.

Anonymous said...

Oh, there is a fair bit of outrage here about that, as you can understand.....

Oh, and up where the fires are in the mountains - they're expecting snow on Xmas Day - go figure!