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Saturday was almost spring after the passage of the storm Eleanor-Burglind. We immediately switched from the rhythm “hibernation” to the rhythm “normal activity”.
We invited Claire and Momo to come to play outside with us and took advantage of the sun.
Our humans ate the Twelfth-Night pancake for Epiphanie in two steps, a little bit at noon, and a little bit in the evening ; this year, Claire made it herself, and she used a whole almond in lieu of bean.
The suspense was complete till the end of the pancake : nobody had found the bean.
Claire finally said : « It’s not possible, I definitely put an almond in this crown ! ”
And Momo answered: ” Then, I am a king since noon, because I crunched a thing in a piece, and … ”
Claire interrupted him ” And you didn’t ask yourself more questions ? ”
Momo : ” No, I didn’t think that you would put a bean you can eat ! “
my granny was the king in our house, she found the little glass figure in our galette des rois… but I ate the paper crown, that makes me technically to a king from the inside too, right?
How nice that you two got to get outdoors and play.
We giggled at Momo not realizing that he found the almond 🙂
MOL!
Purrs Georgia,Julie and JJ
My human hasn’t read up on this tradition – it sounds like fun!
“The Case Of The Missing Almond” – sounds like you needed Sherlock Holmes! Glad you figured it all out though!!
Hugs, Teddy
No bean! Hehe. We didn’t know this tradition. 🙂 Tootsie
yum that looks delicious! The kitties look awfully delicious too!
We are envious of your sunshine and lack of snow!
Ahhh, glorious winter sun! That cake sure looks tasty!
How nice it must be to go outside in the sunshine and scratch the bushes!
Wee iss reelieved yur all OK there after Storm Eleanor….wee too have had wild weather here inn Canada. Snowin an blowin fur dayss an nitess….
Wee supposed to get more snow. Iss purrty butt where do wee put it??? Mew mew mew….
Happy MEW Year Pixie an Zorro frum mee Siddhartha Henry =^,.^= an LadyMum 🙂
i love the cat door–and definitely want a bite of that pancake!
That’s very cool to find the almond! You kitties sure look like you are having fun!
It looks like Spring in your garden 🙂
Our Mama says her mother used to make a cake with the bean in it when she was a little girl. The person who had the bean in their piece of cake was king or queen and then since our family was large, the king or queen could choose a partner and the rest of the family were the servants who had to do one thing each for the” royal couple”. We didn’t realize people still practiced this tradition 🙂
the critters in the cottage xo
It’s wonderful that you were able to get outside for a little exploring.
We have no clue ’bout this tradition, but the bread looks yummy. And ya’ll look gawjus. Big hugs
Luv ya’
Dezi and Raena
That is funny 🙂 Nice cake and great shots of you playing. XO
We miss the sun. Enjoy while you can.
Shoko and Kali
What a gorgeous day you had! And we love the story of the non-bean almond. Though I’ve never taken part in it, I have always loved hearing of this tradition. We hope you are all enjoying a blessed 2018!
Good to see Pixie and Zorro back to their kitty business outside. That pancake looks especially tasty!
That makes us laugh! We put a plastic baby in our King cake and the person that gets the “baby” piece has to buy the next King cake!
pixie N zorro; N joy sum sun shinez for uz two pleez….and de pancake looks
veree delish !!! did ewe get ta share; afturr all ewe DID ask claire N momo out
on a play date ~ 🙂 ♥♥
I am glad you have better weather and can get outdoors to enjoy the sun. We still have rain here, but tomorrow will hopefully be better.
I’d never heard of that tradition either! Pixie looks so cute headed for the door with the toy in her mouth 🙂
He ate the bean!?! I remember doing that when I as a kid!
And how nice you guys got to go outside!
Purrs
Marv