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Happy Day After. . .

Another seasonal image, but less traditional this time.  It's Calvin and Hobbes napping by the fire at Christmastime.  Looks like a sound idea to me!  Sadly, the comic strip ended on December 31st, 1995, but you can still find anthology books of Bill Watterson's brilliant stories all about an imaginative boy (Calvin) and his stuffed tiger (Hobbes), their philosophizing, misadventures, mishaps, and general mischief.  These resonate with the Young Master as much as with yours truly, and I presented our son with two of his very own Calvin and Hobbes books this Christmas, which were an immediate hit.  He liked especially the one entitled 'Something Under the Bed is Drooling.'


Happy Day After as my late. and much missed, maternal grandfather (also a fan of Calvin and Hobbes above) used to say.  A quiet Boxing Day here at Stollen Central as we continue to overindulge on leftovers, cookies, candy, and and the afterglow of Christmas Day.  

At the moment, I am enjoying that first mug of coffee, it's 9:43am, and I''ve got some Christmas jazz playing online as I type this post.  Not really sure what the day has in store.  The best sort of of day I think.  No firm plans.  No obligations.  You just sort of see where things take you. 

However, I plan to sit down in the painting chair for a couple of hours for some more work on the blasted 14 RSM95 French cuirassiers in bearskins, which got lost in the shuffle during the run up to Christmas proper.  And then there is a scenario to choose for a Christmas solo game either tomorrow, or the next day.

 And speaking of soldierly things, the Grand Duchess came through yet again, giving me a neatly wrapped small package that contained some Minden Austrian staff on foot, General Franz Leopold von Nádasdy, as well as some Austrian dragoons.  Ahhh. . .

 -- Stokes

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