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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
CellarDweller:
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on December 21, 2024, 10:49:10 am ---Where I am, the sunset will be at 4:39 pm or 16:39 for the Eurobrokies. I'll light a candle then.
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According to the almanac I've referenced before, that's the time of sunset here, too.
According to the same almanac, we passed the solstice at 4:21 a.m., so it's winter--and it sure enough feels like it. Currently the air temperature here is 30 F.
Happy Yule, everybody!
CellarDweller:
serious crayons:
Here it's up at 7:38, down at 4:34 today. I have no solstice ceremony planned, but am really looking forward to Longerdays tomorrow.
I got a $20 SAD lamp and have used it a few times but I don't know that it's doing that much good. But yesterday was sunny so I went out to do some errands. It was cold, but because the sun was nice, I drove to the more distant Trader Joe's. It's bigger, with more parking and, I hoped, less chaos. There were were fairly long lines but everyone was cheerful. Then I had extra time before sunset so I swung over to another shopping area and made a few stops that were unproductive except for the four potstickers I ate at the LeeAnn Chin's fast-casual restaurant.
I came home feeling upbeat and fairly cheerful. Not sure if it was the sun streaming through the windshield, but that always seems to help a LOT.
It's still cold today, and cloudy. Clouds are predicted for most of the next 10 days. But high temps are supposed to be above freezing, which may start to melt the 5+" of snow we got on Thursday.
Jeff Wrangler:
I lit my candle at 4:39 p.m. per the time on my phone. I used the reproduction 17th-century candleholder that I said I was going to use. Fortunately I found one of those glass chimney things that go on top of an oil lamp to slip down over the candle because keeping it out of a draft would be an issue.
Now I need to make sure I know the time of sunset on Christmas Eve.
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