Happy New… mid-January

A belated happy New Year to you. I hope it brings you good health and good luck.

We’ve ensured our good luck, of course, by getting along to the shrine for hatsumode, and trading in last year’s good luck charms for this year’s, and picking our omikuji (daikichi again!)

And with the New Year comes the frost and the snow. Not that it bothers Ojizousan, who remains as unfazed as ever…