It's Sankt Nikolaustag in the Grand Duchy of Stollen!

An Italian version of St. Nikolaus, visiting an unidentified town during the night.

Sometime during the night, Sankt Nikolaus visited Stollen Central quietly, leaving behind in our shoes assorted chocolate treats, gingerbread cookies, and age-appropriate treats for Young Master Paul, plus a new commemorative, Christmas-themed jigsaw puzzle for the Grand Duchess, who enjoys such things at this time of year. And, of course, there is an authentic Dresdner Stollen to anticipate in the next ten days or so. It is a magical time of year!

Comments

Bluebear Jeff said…

Stokes,

You absolutely NEED to figure out how to send duplicates of that Dresdner Stollen over the Net to your faithful readers (such as myself)!

-- Jeff

PS, a re-post of the recipe might encourage some others to attempt to create one for themselves.

11:58 AM

Paul´s Bods said…

This master Paul didn´t get any age appropiate toys of any kind :-(
Your Blog is great...I love the continiung story here :-)
Happy saint Niklaus day
greetings
Paul

12:25 PM

WSTKS-FM Worldwide said…

Paul -- Thanks for your kind remarks! Favorable feedback is always appreciated. ;-)

Jeff -- Great minds think alike. I had a similar thought here, and I'll dig out that recipe and repost it in the next day or so since the Grand Duchy of Stollen has is very roots in the delightful Christmas recipe.

12:48 PM

The Eventual Anhalt-Zerbst Regiment. . .

The Anhalt-Zerbst regiment musters in the drill square to sort themselves into platoons and companies during the coming weeks Fall maneuvers if you will. A large dose of real life the last few days with the start of classes next Monday, various preparatory meetings, and finishing up a few other things this week. But, I managed to sort out 60 or so Minden Austrian infantry from the pile and get 'em stuck to temporary painting bases. Must carefully drill out the hands of several NCOs for flagpoles and pole arms this weekend before the usual basecoat. I'm thinking of mixing the usual white gesso with the usual light gray to kill two birds with one stone so to speak. Applying both base- and undercoat in one fell swoop as my grandmother used to say. In the meantime, the recently finished squadron of Saxon cuirassiers has been placed carefully in one of the clear acrylic boxes on my shelves until I have the suitable flag to affix. -- Sto...

Presenting the Anspach-Bayreuth Kuirassiere!!!

Here they are, with the rearmost nine figures still drying, three squadrons of the Anspach-Bayreuth Kuirassiere, now in the service of the Grand Duchy of Stollen. And now, it's onto that artillery!

Continued Regional Map Revisions. . .

F ooled around a bit more with the revised map just before and after dinner this evening, using the Fotor app to reinsert missing text . I also removed a few other things using the 'Magic Eraser' function, which works surprisingly well. Now, we're getting somewhere. I just have to figure out how to ensure that the text is all a uniform font style and maybe figure out a way to add a few bunches of trees to suggest forested areas, Ninja AI is not always entirely cooperative to the tune of "I'm sorry Dave. I can't do that." -- Stokes

The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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