Today, while we were in Haarlem, I picked up two chestnuts. Fred picks them up each year and sets them on his night table to ward off colds. Every year I ask him to pick one up for me. He swears that in order for them to work you have to pick them up yourself.
So when I saw them in the graveyard where we went to place flowers on the grave of his parents, I scooped one up. Then I saw him picking up two.
I said, "Why are you picking up two?"
He said, "I think two works even better."
Wives tales are one thing. But when you make up your own, or improve the ones you believe, it's another. However, I will put them on my bedside table and hope for the best. (I will also take vitamin C, which is my mother's recipe for warding off colds.)
The chestnuts are the prettiest brown. I thought chestnut brown was darker. Apparently not.
So pick up some chestnuts or take vitamin C. Take good care of yourself this winter.
2 comments:
The tie is dedinitely hot!
It's a beautiful tie and pink goes with nearly everything.
I hope the chestnuts work. I've never heard that one. I should try it as cold season has begun here.
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