...but feeling like a bad bad blogger of late...
There you go - Christmas come and gone again...my dad used to tell me that when he was a little boy Christmas seemed like it came once every 5 years...but when he got old, it seemed like Christmas came every other day...and now we've lived long enough to know what he was talking about...
We made several farm gifts this year; beeswax candles - tapers and votives - and each person got a special candle holder (or two as the case may be) and I learned something about the times we live in and candle holders...taper holders for the dinner table are pretty hard to come by these days (!)
and, as a re-make of a present from long ago - the 'Make Your Own Stuffed Flounder' kit 0 put together after Will had an especially successful flounder fishing trip - this time it was 'Make Your Own Fried Catfish' kit. Here are the fishies from the pond
and then of course in a bowl ready to package 
and here, the other kit ingredients ready to assemble: special seasoned corn meal and lemons from our Meyer lemon trees..and a crazy little asian platter to put your fried catfish on 
I don't really have a picture of everything in one place - we wrapped the platters and had little bait-bucket ice chests for carrying the frozen fish home - so I asked everyone to take the empty ice bucket and put it on the drivers seat of their cars - that way, when getting ready to leave, they could just come up and say - 'I need my catfish!'So - there's a teeny tiny part of what went on during the holidays...lots of family, lots of different celebrations..a good time was had by all.