2004-12-22
WE GO A CAROLING Written, but never posted, on 20 December 2004
Bev + Steve invited us to go caroling on Saturday night on a hayride romp through some of the residential paths and byways in Moodus | 
We all met at the "Trilobite House," had buffalo chili and spiked mulled cider before heading off to make fools of ourselves |
It was great fun and, in the minds of the participants, closer to what the Holiday Spirit is / ought to be about... sharing joy with others, particularly sharing with total strangers | We drove around singing and stopped in front of houses
where it appeared that people were home | Only two houses seemed unresponsive | Other folks came outside and listened | We sang Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer a lot! | One family offered us cocoa "...or something hot to drink..." | Another woman laughed when she saw us and wanted to know what we were drinking [we laughed at that one, some of us nipping on Jagermeister, Blackberry brandy and 1.5 liter bottles of Merlot | Others among us were clean and sober]
After the two hour below freezing temperature ride, we went to Mike and Dory's house, sang carols to the kids, and we were followed up with Santa Claus coming out from the bushes to say hello and talk with the kids about, well, things of importance to Santa Claus |
Before the end of the evening, plans were being made for next year |
PIX: Mary Beth Mordacai , Will Brady + Beverly Floyd
Bev + Steve invited us to go caroling on Saturday night on a hayride romp through some of the residential paths and byways in Moodus | We all met at the "Trilobite House," had buffalo chili and spiked mulled cider before heading off to make fools of ourselves |
It was great fun and, in the minds of the participants, closer to what the Holiday Spirit is / ought to be about... sharing joy with others, particularly sharing with total strangers | We drove around singing and stopped in front of houses
where it appeared that people were home | Only two houses seemed unresponsive | Other folks came outside and listened | We sang Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer a lot! | One family offered us cocoa "...or something hot to drink..." | Another woman laughed when she saw us and wanted to know what we were drinking [we laughed at that one, some of us nipping on Jagermeister, Blackberry brandy and 1.5 liter bottles of Merlot | Others among us were clean and sober]
After the two hour below freezing temperature ride, we went to Mike and Dory's house, sang carols to the kids, and we were followed up with Santa Claus coming out from the bushes to say hello and talk with the kids about, well, things of importance to Santa Claus |
Before the end of the evening, plans were being made for next year |ABOUT THE "TRILOBITE HOUSE": Bev had a dream, some years back, to build a house based on the general shape of a trilobite | The primary contractor was Ralph [who I've mentioned before] and while it appears to be a single storey nestled in the woods on a knoll, it really is a 4-1/2 storey structure that literally seems to float above the lake | There are a half dozen real trilobite fossils stashed among the masonry work in the house | They wrote about the house in a shared journal which is posted on the 1000 journals website, Journal # 746 [page 2]
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