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| Charleston at Christmas, Charleston, S.C. |
One last Christmas picture before we say goodbye to the season. I am getting ready to make some tea and take the decorations of my tree this afternoon. Sniff. For a few days the house will look so empty.
What is your New Year's traditions? My family has a Scottish background and the one I like best is much more fun than the lowcountry tradition of eating Hopping John:
First Footer: For optimum good luck, a dark-haired man should be first
through your door in the New Year. If he’s handsome and single, so
much the better. And it’s really lucky if he arrives on a horse! The
man should bring symbolic gifts – some coins, a loaf of bread, a lump of
coal for the fire, a branch of evergreen and salt. Ideally, the man
will make his way through the house and leave by a different door.
If he happened to be very handsome, there is no hard and fast rule that he couldn't pause for awhile as he makes his way through the house. :)
That is a pretty house. I have gray hair so I will stay outside and hope you get lucky with a dark-haired man! Have a great 2012.
ReplyDeleteUuuuhhhhhh, 2013.
ReplyDeleteYep, I had to correct it too. That will take awhile. Happy New Year Jack and thanks for all the kind comments this year.
DeleteWhat a cool tradition!
ReplyDeleteI can't think of a New Year's tradition, but on New Year's Eve, people in Germany pour molten lead into a pot of water, where it then solidifies. You then try to guess what the shape is, which signifies what the new year will bring to that person. Needless to say, a lot of people like to interpret the shape as that of a wedding ring, or a baby, or a coin...
Happy New Year to you!
That is a dramatic tradition! I like it! I've never heard of it before.
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