Barbara Branches

"Barbara branches are branches of fruit trees, which, according to an old custom, take place on December 4th, the feast day of St. Barbara cut and placed in a vase in the apartment. Depending on the area and customs, cherry, apple, birch, hazelnut, horse chestnut, plum, elder, hawthorn or forsythia branches are used for forcing. They should bloom by Christmas Eve and decorate the apartment for Christmas.
According to regional folk belief, the blossoming of the Barbara branches will bring good luck in the coming year. Sometimes it is customary for the young girls to assign the name of a suitor to each branch. The branch that blooms first is intended to indicate the future bridegroom. Barbara branches were also the basis of other oracles, such as harvest oracles, where the number of flowers showed the size of the harvest, or they were used to predict lottery numbers." *Wikipedia

Our Barbara branches were left overs when we have cut our cherry tree in late November. They started to bloom yesterday. Obviously it will be a lucky 2022. 
I'm a lucky one in 2021 too, because Renfrebar is helping took over the editing of the story, which I created with Omo. I would be totally overwhelmed with it. It is, uhm, complicated (see extra).
Perhaps it will be ready tomorrow. That's why I'm out of blip for tonight.