In Germany, Christmas is three days long, beginning on the 24th and ending the evening of the 26th. We were with family for two meals a day and in that time managed to consume a barnyard's worth of critters: duck, rabbit, chicken, lamb and goose. I might not have felt so porcine if we hadn't also eaten our share of German desserts: stollen, linzer tort, candied chestnuts, spekulatius cookies with cream, chocolate and more chocolate. Good thing we had all that wine to wash it down. Dahlia wished for a white Christmas and we ended up with nearly two feet of snow. It was a welcome sight. Stefan and I were on our cross country skis on the 27th, burning off the farm.
The house early in the storm.
Meilo has fallen and can't get up.
Trick skiing in the backyard.
Dahlia relaxing in the yard with one of opa's sculptures.
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