A new entry, a new year

Date published: February 1, 2009

Last year it was the Bumble, this year it's good ole Yukon Cornelius.

As is the custom every year for Christmas, I went back to visit all my family in my hometown and surrounding areas of Vermont. Every year the trip seems to get harder and harder to deal with. For one, it's an 8-hour trip, and really, most of my family and I don't have a lot to talk about. Sometimes computers come up, but then it ends with someone asking me to help put something on their computer, and that's where the visit ends up feeling too much like work.

Not to mention that many of my first cousins have children whose names are getting harder and harder to remember (let alone anything else).

One of the coolest things that I did while home was read through a recipe book that my mother had made for my sister. My mom created it by mailing out recipe pages to relatives on both sides of the family asking for noteworthy recipes. Certain recipes even had stories about them added on at the end. Quite a neat idea, and a lot of family and a even soem friends contributed.

I had to laugh because each of my grandmothers contributed 3 recipes, and they were so telling. My grandmother Lyon (who has quite a large garden) included three recipes that all required zucchini. My grandmother Taylor (who, along with my grandfather and relatives, has maple sugared ever year that I can remember) included three recipes that all required maple syrup.

All in all, it was an ok enough trip, I mean, I only do it once a year anyway.

I was back here in Rochester to celebrate the ringing in of the new year. Man, it's amazing how quickly a year can go by. The older I get, the faster they go. Even more amazing is that I only did four journal entries last year, three of which were in the first two months of the year!