The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[Candy_Kane54]

Happy New Year everyone. We have snow on the ground but we're heading into a warm up by next week. I hope the new year finds you well and turns out to be the best ever.

There's coffee brewing and the teapot is steaming. There are donuts and pumpkin spice waffles on the counter.

Being the eighth day of Christmas, there are maids a-milking but I don't see any cows, so I'll leave it to your imagination what's being milked. I'll be over in the corner trying to work on my story and ignoring all of the milking going on. I'm getting to the steamy part of the story and the maids are distracting ...

 

[sirhugs]

HAPPY 2026!

*looks around*

Seriously? No flying cars yet?
Did they change anything?​

would you settle for paper airplanes?

(no, don't try to make sense of that retort...)

 

[old_prof]

My knee feels much better today! I was expecting today to be similar to yesterday, then start seeing a gradual improvement. But things got much better over night. I actually managed to hobble around a little bit this morning without the walker. I don't want to do that too much yet and push me into a relapse, but I can't believe how much better I feel today.

I'm still staying huddled in my bedroom, but the temp won't get up above 15 (-10 i the civilized world) for five more days now.

Hopefully I can get real work done on revising my novel for Pink Orchid and actually write Oh Sweetie for Valentine's Day contest.

 

[TarnishedPenny]

My knee feels much better today! I was expecting today to be similar to yesterday, then start seeing a gradual improvement. But things got much better over night. I actually managed to hobble around a little bit this morning without the walker. I don't want to do that too much yet and push me into a relapse, but I can't believe how much better I feel today.

 

[Duleigh]

New Years Day! The eighth day of Christmas! A day of relaxing and reflecting on the celebrations you had (or should have had) through the holidays. Go ahead and listen to Christmas music and leave the tree up till Saturday, its ok, that's what New Years day is for.

The only people that need to work are the folks at the retail stores stocking the shelves for Valentines day and Mardi Gras...

Doesn't anyone celebrate Lincoln's birthday anymore?

 

[MrPixel]

stocking the shelves for Valentines day

Yeah. Did our weekly store run Tuesday and was sort of knocked over by the entire seasonal section taken over by Valentine's merch, all of it sugar-sugar-sugar. I had to cover my eyes as I ran past.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Does anybody know the actual calendar dates of Amish holidays this year?

All I can find are 'x days after Y' or similar.

 

[Duleigh]

Does anybody know the actual calendar dates of Amish holidays this year?

All I can find are 'x days after Y' or similar.

Christmas = December 25
Second Christmas = December 26 (This is not boxing day, this is the Epiphany)
Easter = April 5
Good Friday = April 3
Pentecost = May 24

 

[MrPixel]

Tending to household chores, C stepped into the office and stated, "If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm trying to catch up on laundry."

To which I replied, "No, don't do that. Ketchup will stain."

Maybe 2 or 3 seconds...

 

[Duleigh]

Tending to household chores, C stepped into the office and stated, "If you're wondering what I'm doing, I'm trying to catch up on laundry."

To which I replied, "No, don't do that. Ketchup will stain."

Maybe 2 or 3 seconds...

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Christmas = December 25
Second Christmas = December 26 (This is not boxing day, this is the Epiphany)
Easter = April 5
Good Friday = April 3
Pentecost = May 24

Is that all? I thought there were more.

I have a bunch of Amish stores around here that I go to some times. But they're far enough away that I don't want to drive and find out they're closed. And well, they don't have phones so you can call ahead.

 

[Duleigh]

Is that all? I thought there were more.

I have a bunch of Amish stores around here that I go to some times. But they're far enough away that I don't want to drive and find out they're closed. And well, they don't have phones so you can call ahead.

That's all that Google gave me.

I grew up outside of Amish country and I didn't realized that they actually had holidays. I thought they spent all their time building gazebos and lawn furniture.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Attempting to reorganize my cocoon and I can't find the order I want.

Cocoon is the word for the way stuff is gathered around my static position of late.

But on the self-perceived prospect that the staticness of my being is related to the above mentioned arm and wrist issues, I felt some disruption of the realm was to be considered.

What was on the left (and may have been causing me to lay on my left side and turn my head to the left too much) is now on the right.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

The sun is shining and it's cold but warming up a bit. So far, the new year hasn't been too bad. Only 363 more days to go ...

I've got a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is boiling. There are donuts and crumpets on the counter. Being the ninth day of Christmas, there are nine pipers piping (a nonet?) and it's a little loud in here.

I'll be over in the corner trying to work on my story. The pipers are taking requests so I asked them to do 'Thunderstruck.' Hopefully, my Muse won't hate me for that ...

 

[MrPixel]

...nine pipers piping...

Hey! Where are the dancing ladies? I was expecting dancing ladies!

Maybe one of those pipers can take a look at that leaky faucet in the bathroom.

Oops. Day nine is dancing ladies. Pipers are eleven. As if we need more pipers.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Hey! Where are the dancing ladies? I was expecting dancing ladies!

Maybe one of those pipers can take a look at that leaky faucet in the bathroom.

Oops. Day nine is dancing ladies. Pipers are eleven. As if we need more pipers.

Matter of opinion. It's usually eleven ladies and twelve lords in the recordings I hear. And when we did a school nativity play based on it. I was a lord bad at leaping...

 

[HyunnaPark]

there are nine pipers piping

Dear Diary,

On Jan 2nd, my wish came true

 

[Duleigh]

Matter of opinion. It's usually eleven ladies and twelve lords in the recordings I hear. And when we did a school nativity play based on it. I was a lord bad at leaping...

According to Wikipedia (who is NEVER wrong) the twelveth day of Christmas issued forth"
Twelve Lords a leaping
Eleven ladies dancing
Ten pipers piping
Nine drummers drumming
Eight maids a milking
Seven fwans a fwimming
Six geese a laying
Five gold rings
Four colley birds
Three French Hens
Two turtle doves
A Partridge in a pear tree

 

[MrPixel]

Matter of opinion. It's usually eleven ladies and twelve lords in the recordings I hear. And when we did a school nativity play based on it. I was a lord bad at leaping...

Huh. I did a search on the lyrics and multiple sites had what I described. Like Duleigh mentioned, Wikipedia covers a number of the variants and changing of the order of appearance.

Still want to know if one of those pipers are going to fix that sink.

 

[MrPixel]

Speaking of "pipers", I have two friends who marched in the Rose Parade yesterday in the national band directors' band, one on flute, the other on piccolo.

The parade is a grueling hike - 5+ miles for the route itself, add a mile on each end for queuing and de-queuing. 50 years ago I lived in the area and went to a college that fielded their band in 1973. I also was streetside for it a couple of times. So I thought for a long time that I was there with the band, but their time in the spotlight was the year before I was a member. My high school band was in the parade 10 years after I graduated.

 

[stickygirl]

According to Wikipedia (who is NEVER wrong) the twelveth day of Christmas issued forth"
Twelve Lords a leaping
Eleven ladies dancing
Ten pipers piping
Nine drummers drumming
Eight maids a milking
Seven fwans a fwimming
Six geese a laying
Five gold rings
Four colley birds
Three French Hens
Two turtle doves
A Partridge in a pear tree
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Chriftmas? fent? fwimming fwans? Is this the Swedish version?

 

[stickygirl]

Got a question for y'all

How long is a country mile? I've heard the expression quite a bit recently and wondered.

 

[MrPixel]

How long is a country mile?

A fair piece.

Not quantified anywhere I know of, just "a long way", especially if one is on foot.

 

[Duleigh]

Chriftmas? fent? fwimming fwans? Is this the Swedish version?

It's the English version - read the image I sent



I should have typed ſwans a ſwimming but there is no ſ key and they're hard to reporduce. I missed the geeſe a laying - that isn't actually an F that's a "Long S" ſ vs f

Long means a typographical style, not the sound. The long s was pronounced just like a short s and this goes back to the Romans when they developed an early form of cursive. The use of the long vs short s was basically the typographer's style, but there were a few rules. ſ could be used to replace a double ss but there is also a double ſſ. It would not be used as a capital letter or at the end of a word. It would never be used in conjunction with the letter F such as in the word Misfortune. After that, you could used it wherever you want It went out of use in the late 18th century

 

[MrPixel]

Doesn't the "long 's'" remain in use in German, substituting for 'ss', as in "Straſe"?