Corgyncombe Cottage

On St. Lucia's Day Sarah dons a white gown with a red sash and wears a head wreath of candles. She carries a tray of homemade cookies for family and friends.

With the coming of Christmas, greens are gathered and brought inside and fashioned into swags to decorate the peacock aviary, the playhouse, and the smokehouse. This is Emily and Ethlyn Corgi's first Christmas and Emily Corgi remembers her mummy reading to them Corgiville Christmas, by Tasha Tudor. She thinks of the corgyn, cats, and rabbits decorating their homes for Christmas and she wants in on the fun! Emily spies the bright red Christmas ribbon.....

.....and decides to help her mummy make bows. Emily has a grand time! After the work is done and everything is tidy again, Emily & Ethlyn's mummy tucks them in for a long winters nap and reads to them the 1975 version of The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore and illustrated by Tasha Tudor.

Emily ah-woo-woo-woo's with sleepy delight as Sarah shows her the inscription in the front: To Miss Sarah who wears fine boots! Love from Tasha Tudor.

Oft' times whilst gathering Christmas greens for swags and wreaths Diane and her family find a nest amongst the branches.

Sometimes their Christmas tree already has a nest in it that was home to the warmer seasons hatchlings. The nest is left in the tree and a bird ornament is placed in it.

The photographs of Sarah and Tasha Corgi with the nest reminds Diane of a nest that was occupied last spring on the porch post, sheltered by the roof. In lovely June a robin hatched out a family of three little robins. The first nest photograph above is of the robins.

After the robin family left the nest, a pair of barn swallows moved in later on in the summer. The swallows worked on the nest, building it up a little higher. The second nest photograph above is of the three little swallows. Much enjoyable time was spent observing the robin and swallow families.

Between our cottage and our south meadow flows a small creek which we call Corgi Creek. The sights at Corgyncombe Cottage are made even more pleasant by the sounds of the creek babbling by.

Diane made the swan ornament using a dough-like mixture which she pressed with a wooden cookie mold. After it dried and hardened Diane painted the ornament. Adding it to the tree reminds us that someday we would love to have a swan!

Corgyncombe Cottage & Corg'ery, Page Two

A little farm in the valley where the corgyn dwell.

On St. Lucia's Day Sarah dons a white gown with a red sash and wears a head wreath of candles. She carries a tray of homemade cookies for family and friends.

Emily ah-woo-woo-woo's with sleepy delight as Sarah shows her the inscription in the front: To Miss Sarah who wears fine boots! Love from Tasha Tudor.

Oft' times whilst gathering Christmas greens for swags and wreaths Diane and her family find a nest amongst the branches.

Sometimes their Christmas tree already has a nest in it that was home to the warmer seasons hatchlings. The nest is left in the tree and a bird ornament is placed in it.

The photographs of Sarah and Tasha Corgi with the nest reminds Diane of a nest that was occupied last spring on the porch post, sheltered by the roof. In lovely June a robin hatched out a family of three little robins. The first nest photograph above is of the robins.

After the robin family left the nest, a pair of barn swallows moved in later on in the summer. The swallows worked on the nest, building it up a little higher. The second nest photograph above is of the three little swallows. Much enjoyable time was spent observing the robin and swallow families.

Between our cottage and our south meadow flows a small creek which we call Corgi Creek. The sights at Corgyncombe Cottage are made even more pleasant by the sounds of the creek babbling by.

Diane made the swan ornament using a dough-like mixture which she pressed with a wooden cookie mold. After it dried and hardened Diane painted the ornament. Adding it to the tree reminds us that someday we would love to have a swan!

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