Writer's Block: Good eats

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Love. Well, I love "Christmas cookies" (when I was growing up, Christmas cookies were homemade iced sugar cookies and to this day it seems odd to me when people call other varieties of cookies, including gingerbread men, Christmas cookies).

I really, really don't like fruitcake, but that seems like such an obvious choice.

We never did a big Christmas dinner when I was a kid (Thanksgiving was the big holiday meal), so Christmas dinner's not that big a deal for me.

Writer's Block: Welcome home

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I didn't realize the two were mutually exclusive.

That said, I love the climate I live in now, which has cool (cold enough to snow maybe once or twice every other year or so) wet winters. The only part about the winters I don't like are how gray and dark they are and how short the days get because of the latitude. We have long, lovely springs. We can get our first springlike days in late February (and our first spring flowers if we plant the right things) and summer doesn't really start till late June or early July (although we do get the occasional warm spell in late April or May). Our summers are absolutely dropdead glorious -- week after week of 70sF and sunshine and long, long days with the occasional handful of days where everyone whines because they don't have air-conditioning. It usually lasts till somewhere between mid-September and mid-October. Our falls are full of lovely golden foliage (bigleaf maples, so called because the leaves are the size of dinner plates) and can be really blustery and exciting.

I've lived in climates where it never gets cold in the winter but way too hot in the summer, and I've lived where snow is regular and expected and summers are hot, anyway.

I think I'll stay right where I am, thanks!

Writer's Block: It's a wonderful life!

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A Charlie Brown Christmas. Hands down. It's not Christmas without it.

Ditto for Halloween and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, Thanksgiving and A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, and Easter and It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown.

I like my holidays with a good dose of Peanuts [g].