Nikolaustag

Setting up the Nikolaustag goodies for my daughter. She will be home at 7.
Where I live we put the boots out in the early evening of the 6th and Nikolaus stopps by later in the evening.

Admire (or don't) my homemade tablecloth - it's about 30 years old and only taken out for today - to kitschy.

6:45 pm 2,8°C



Wikipedia says:
In Germany, Nikolaus is usually celebrated on a small scale. Many children put a boot called Nikolaus-Stiefel (Nikolaus boot) outside the front door on the night of 5 December. St. Nicholas fills the boot with gifts and sweets overnight, and at the same time checks up on the children to see if they were good, polite and helpful the last year. If they were not, they will have a tree branch (Rute) in their boots instead. Sometimes a disguised Nikolaus also visits the children at school or in their homes and asks them if they have been good (sometimes ostensibly checking his golden book for their record), handing out presents on the basis of their behavior. This has become more lenient in recent decades.