It's Christmas Eve Here at Stollen Central!!!

And I imagine that Saint Nicholas will soon begin his yearly journey. So, I hope all of you have been well behaved this past year and are not expecting to find birch switches and/or lumps of coal in your stockings tomorrow morning. As for me, well. . . But, you never know. ;-) I've got to run now, to make us a big Christmas Eve brunch, and then I have a few dishes and pies to assemble in the kitchen for Christmas Dinner tomorrow. And the Grand Duchess is going to bake a second stollen since the first one was finished a few days ago. Have a lovely Christmas Eve everyone and be sure to tune in again to Radio Free Stollen during the Christmas Week when painting will return to normal and hopefully those cuirassiers inch along toward completion.

Comments

marinergrim said…

Enjoy the day with your family Stokes and have a Great Christmas. Best to you all.

3:37 PM

Der Alte Fritz said…

Merry Christmas to you and your family Stokes. thank you for an enjoyable year of blogging and excitement.

10:01 PM

Steve-the-Wargamer said…

Same to you Stokes, have a brilliant day...

3:50 AM

Here's an RSM Painting Update

Here's a picture illustrating my (S-L-O-W) progress with the second company of Stollen's Leib (Grand Duchess Sonja's Own) Grenadiers. You can see I'm doing things a bit differently this time, altering the painting process to keep it interesting basically. This evening, I'll do the white gaiters and, if that goes reasonably quickly, and time allows, the red breeches. Still lots to do, but I like the way these fine fellows are shaping up along side the completed 1st company that's standing in formation just off camera, to the left here. Until tonight then!

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!

Having a "No Day". . .

F or the almost 20 years that she lived in Mexico, one of my late mother's Irish friends frequently mentioned having a "No Day." A day with no social obligations, chores, tasks, or other work that interfered with whatever personal interests took one's fancy on the day in question. Since today -- a gray and chilly Saturday -- is Mom's birthday, the Grand Duchess is out with friends, and the Young Master is ensconced on the sofa in the TV room with a cold, yours truly is taking his own such No Day. I think Mom would approve of my decision to make the world go away, as the old Eddie Arnold song intoned, even if only for a little while. So, I will spend Saturday afternoon focused on that first squadron and small regimental staff of Eureka Saxon cuirassiers. These have stood waiting untouched over on the painting table for almost three weeks while we skied and otherwise gadded about with snowy, winter outdoor activities. I hope to share a painting update Sunday...

The Grand Duchy of Stollen

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