Happy Winter!!

[Pearl]

The shortest day of the year! Thank goodness, I'm getting Seasonal Affectional Disorder!!

 

[Amish Heart]

So are our chickens

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

My chickens are beginning to lay. No lights, no heat. I have some how ended up with hens that take their break during late summer. I like it.

 

[Amish Heart]

Ours aren't really doing terrible. But I hatch batches each year, and throw them in. I don't bother butchering old hens. Just butcher roosters when there's too many. So laying ages of the hens are all over the place. Will get a couple dozen eggs a day at least in spring/summer. Lately it's been between 9 and a dozen a day.

 

[M0del_31]

Here in Texas, winter is my favorite weekend.

 

[d_marsh]

This is my favorite time of the year. Not for me, but for homeless people.

 

[Cabin Fever]

For us, sunrise was at 7:30a and sunset is at 4:00p.

 

[Sourdough]

 

[Weedygarden]

First day of winter. Zima means winter in Czech, but also cold. Illustrations: Josef Lada.

 

[Alaskajohn]

The shortest day of the year! Thank goodness, I'm getting Seasonal Affectional Disorder!!

In 21 days, the sun will once again come out from below the mountain range to my south.

 

[Morgan101]

We had dinner with friends last week, and one mentioned this was one of her favorite days of the year. After this she knows she is going to have one more minute of sunlight every day.

 

[kd4ulw]

We had our company Christmas lunch Friday and we got to go into work two hours later than normal.

It was still dark.

 

[Binky]

For us, sunrise was at 7:30a and sunset is at 4:00p.

Sort of likewise, except today sunrise here was at 8:05 am and sunset will be 4:15 pm. But it's already dark out now (at 2:50 pm) because we are having a major, ongoing rain storm.

 

[Binky]

The shortest day of the year! Thank goodness, I'm getting Seasonal Affectional Disorder!!

I got a good laugh from seeing the "Affectional" in your post. I needed that laugh and I'm going to borrow that word from you. I have already been cranky for the past month and have been looking forward to today knowing that from tomorrow onwards we'll start getting increasingly more light each day again. I'm especially looking forward to June 21st and the nearly 19 hours of daily light (that's including the twilight that we get before sunrise and after sunset).

 

[UserNameTaken]

It's 77 deg here. I want some SNOW!

 

[Mountain trapper]

Our snow just quit and the frozen fog moved in. Trackers running around with a deer leg that he dug up somewhere. Life is good.

 

[LadyLocust]

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Rise and shine- oops just kidding. Go back to bed.

 

[Caribou]

The shortest day of the year! Thank goodness, I'm getting Seasonal Affectional Disorder!!

It’s the longest night of the year, take advantage.

 

[Pearl]

It's 77 deg here. I want some SNOW!
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Get climbing!!

 

[teeceetx]

I really miss the corporate Christmas parties!

Some of them were REALLY WILD, and most were highly memorable. Open bar, great food, willing women!

 

[dademoss]

 

[Weedygarden]

There are two houses in my neighborhood where there have been parties on this day. I know that one of them has not had a party since the pandemic, but they are having one today. I've been invited many times, but I have only gone a couple of times.

 

[montanabill]

Glad the days are getting longer....I am using up batteries in my headlamp. I work two hours after sunset and it is only 6:45.
Can't wait for those 10 o'clock at night bright Alpen glow.

 

[bkt]

The shortest day of the year! Thank goodness, I'm getting Seasonal Affectional Disorder!!

Yeah, I'd noticed the "Observations from Pearl's Pool" thread had quieted down a bit.

 

[Mountain trapper]

I can tell the days are getting longer already.

 

[Weedygarden]

Vivaldi's Winter