January brings the quiet of winter to our village. The snow is finally here and I am taking my annual three week staycation. I order in the Valentine’s Day Chocolate tea with rose petals, sweets for the sweet and peruse gifty possibilities for the new year.
It is the time of year when our cat sits on top of two remaining floor registers in this old house and blocks a pretty fair amount of heat. That is appreciated in the one small room where ALL of the heat goes and not so much in our tiny cold kitchen where we have to turn on an extra heater to blow heat on us when the first pot of water gets onto the stove when it’s still dark and very early. It’s much like the old west when people froze inside of their habitats.
It is picture perfect outside of my window which looks onto the side of St. Lukes church and parking lot. The snow is like in “A Christmas Story” when Ralphie opens the window Christmas morning and with the harp playing, the camera pans around the snow covered neighborhood and the snow is so thick on the trees and the sight is beautiful and peaceful and quiet and ethereal and then I snap out of it and realize it is going to be a good soup day!
The Stillroom will re-open and resume the regular daily business hours of Wednesday and Thursday 10-6 Friday 10-4 and Saturday 10-2.
You might also catch me here by chance on Monday and Tuesday so call first!
If you are having a tea /coffee emergency, email or call because it HAS been known to happen and I WILL open up IF I am awake, showered, dressed, caught up on weather and top of the news, have ingested copious amounts of Nicaraguan coffee or tea, go to the post office, catch up on emails, shop orders, look at piles of papers that need to be addressed and sorted, attempt inventory between two shops…no I jest. Give a call, we are here working all three weeks except for when we went to see Avatar which I decided forty minutes into it that I can wait for the DVD and went shopping for a couple of hours which was awesome!
Just because The Stillroom closes for a hiatus, don’t let that stop you from coming into the village because I am pretty sure the other retail shops are open for business as are the bed and breakfasts and the local eateries!
It’s a neat little village and is postcard perfect in the winter so bring a camera!
The Saxonburg Area Artist’s Co-op is in the process of gearing up for the late winter/early spring with classes and lectures in different mediums of art which is very cool for art education in the immediate area.
I look forward to all of the things coming our way. I don’t know what we would do without special days set aside just to remind people how much they are loved, birthday’s of presidents which mean car clearance sales,white sales and cherry pie filling sales…has that day evolved into something weird or what? I doubt that was the original intention. Anyhow, Ash Wednesday is on my birthday and I look forward to both of those things every year. Lent brings specialities to the local restaraunts and churches and pretty soon we will be smelling hycacinths. I actually spotted those in a local grocery chain a week after Christmas which at first I thought was rushing things along but when I caught that sweet flower fragrance I remembered how much I love hyacinths and went home to meditate and watch the sun set and suddenly realized the daylight hours are growing longer. Hey, it’s still light out at ten after five!
