Digest#353: New Year's Traditions :)

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In digest#353 Sissy shared: " New Years food traditions.

Toast of white wine with 12 grapes dropped into the

glass at the stroke of 12am. Don't ask me, it's something

my husband from Yucatan brought along into the marriage

and we do this each year. "

 

~ Very cool! i have never heard of that tradition before.

My only tradition is to welcome the new year with

candlelight and a verse said at the welcoming door.

It would be nice if a dark-haired lad would come to

the house for a first-footing blessing, but that tradition

is not common in these parts, so i make do keeping

Hogmanay in my own manner.

 

~ pt ~

 

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on

until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

~ Willa Cather (1873 - 1947), My Antonia