Presépio is Portuguese for "Nativity Scene". Follow along as we build this year's version of a long family tradition. Mai e Pai (Mom & Dad, in Portuguese) started this tradition with just a few figurines bought in a Paris airport, to hundreds of pieces lovingly collected or hand-crafted over the decades and across two continents.

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19 December, 2009

Tree trimming today... 19 Dec

Today was all about trimming the REAL Christmas tree that we got yesterday.  M was here today to have her laptop de-virused, and helped to expertly test and place the lights - thanks!!
Only Presépio work today was to the schoolyard, and oh yes - the graveyard.  A tad macabre, perhaps, but it was one of the bits of realism my Mom added many years ago.  (And usually, the only part of the village landscaping that P. feels he is allowed to do.

Also, a most important addition from yesterday that I forgot to highlight.  The neighbors have hung out their wash on their solar and wind powered clothesline!  Almost anyone who knows my family knows hte significance of THAT very recent addition to the village... ;)


And while we're on the topic of green sustainability, please note the wind turbines - one powers the church (see foto), and the other powers the rest of the village, as well as grinding all the flour for the bakery!

(Oh, OK - I guess they called them windmills back then - not turbines...)

Let's hope the promised blizzard neither causes a snow emergency in the village, nor hampers the last minute shopping that is yet to be completed!!  8-O

3 comments:

  1. I love the clothesline! Did the neighbors have one last year or did they just let their clothes dry on the rocks...down by the stream where they washed them? The clothesline really is an excellent facet of this village's life!

    Hoping to make our own pilgrimage northwards later on today - at least before Christmas - to visit the presépio in real life. We'll have to see how long it takes us to dig out and for your ploughman aka plowman to do his work, too!

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  2. In my rereading of your blog post, I see that the clothesline is new. How nice for the villagers to have one. Perhaps it was a Christmas present?

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  3. Come one, come all - a rare chance to see the "work in progress" mode - you know, before the final perfection that it will become!!
    (Ummm - sometime around February, just before it gets dismantled...!)

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