Happy New Year 2023 and An Update On The Pickle Tradition.

 As we get older,

 each year seems to pass faster.

My daughter and her family

 visited for Christmas.

They had planned on skiing 

but we didn't have enough snow.

We had a green Christmas. 

To come up with some activities,

I planned to carry out the 

Christmas Pickle Tradition,

(a glass pickle hidden on the Christmas 

tree and Christmas morning whoever

 finds it receives a gift and 

goodwill for the New Year).

This year, I planned it 

in the different way.

The kids are now teenagers.

So I decided to make it more 

of a challenge and hide the pickle

on a tree outside, instead of on

a decorated tree inside.

They had to find the undecorated tree 

and I have a lot around the property, 

spruce, pine, tamarack, birch, etc;

find the hidden glass pickle and 

whoever finds it receives a prize.

(In a radius of 100ft from the house,

the land is approx. 1 mile long)

Sweet Sabrina, 

my Granddaughter,

 found it.

I also created another game.

I decorated another tree 

outside with red ornaments,

In a secluded area.

Whoever finds the tree and brings an

ornament back to the house,

receives a gift.

Matthew found it.

I forgot to take a pic of his gift.

It was a ski facemask.

High winds the previous day

blew off some ornaments.

with Suzanne and cute dog Pinot.

 

So the prize for the pickle finder,

Sabrina, was a "Polar Express Train"

It will look nice around a tree.

We did visit the beach

Its unusual not to have snow 

at this time of the year.

Water seeping out of the banks have frozen.

Suzanne found a nice 

piece of amber seaglass.

It could be the bottom of

a glass Javex bottle. 

My sister, Annie found a 

rare large piece of cobalt blue.

A piece of bottom from 

a Milk Of Magnesia bottle.

Erosion is eating away at the land 

caused from rising waters, high winds from 

storms, global warming.

We are losing ground.

You can view a previous blog on

 "The Pickle Tradition", 

from years gone by,

by clicking here.

I also added more Christmas decoration

 photos on my previous post.

click here to view more.

Sadly, we lost our oldest sister Joyce this year.

We called her Joy, and that name suited her.

She was a Joy to everyone in the family. 💖

She will be missed.

I wish you all a Happy New Year

with joy, peace and good health also

may our world heal from diseases

and disasters.

💖💗💖