The Fourth Night of Chanukkah, 12'22

 

On the Forth Night of Chanukkah 

my true love gave to me

 a plate of 4 potato latkes, with sour cream, and applesauce

to be eaten

by the light of

four candles glowing

on the menorah. 

It doesn't get much more romantic than that!

Candle lighting on the Third Night of Chanukkah: 12 '22

 

Chag Sameach, Happy 2nd Night of Chanukkah: 12 '22

Chag Sameach!

Happy Second Night of Chanukkah

And for dinner we had 

prime rib, corn, and baked potato puffs with 

and apple dumplings for desert.

Happy First night of Chanukkah: 12 '22

 This year, Chanukkah falls, as it often does, right atop the Christmas Holiday

In 2022, the first of the eight days of this important Jewish Holiday

 starts at sundown on December 18th 

and runs through to end at sundown on December 26th.

On each of these nights, we light a candle on the menorah 

and recite a prayer from a prayer book  Bruce has carried with him for all of his adult life.

Then we have a feast. 

at our Chanukkah decorated table

The Tree and all its trimmings are up : 12 '22

Our Christms tree is  finally up and spreading cheer and goodwill  throughout the house.

Everything seems to be moving in slow motion this year. We had all the indoor trimmings out and waiting to put up on our Xmas tree by December 1st.   It was just that we were halfway through the month of December, (and almost into the first night of Chanukkah), before we finally found where we had stored our Christmas Tree.  

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: 12'22

 We usually have the front of our home decorated for Christmas by December 1,

This year rain (and other matters beyond our control) conspired to delay the process.

It took us a while to locate all the ornaments we brought from Pawleys Island,

and a while longer to decide how to best display them in our much larger front yard,  

But now we have found places for them all in our new home.

I must say we are very pleased with the way 

the display turned out.

Fall Foliage: 12/22

 This is the first time in my life, that I have lived in a home

 that is surrounded by seasonal color,

Looking North in our backyard

 and I must say, I am loving the fall foliage.

Looking Southfrom our backyard

Looking west

Of course, there is a downside...

I think it may take me until 2023 to get all of the leaves 

that have fallen raked up

and 

into the compost pile.