Our Yule Goat and its Burning

Dear friends I present to you pictures of our first Jule Bock and its subsequent devourment by flame. The date was last Thursday, January 4th. Jacob, Cory, Luke, Dawn, and myself were present for the event. It was constucted using boughs from mine and Dawn's Christmas tree and twine and string as follows: two boughs for each leg, pointing the same way but with opposing curvatures; approximately ten boughs for the body, pointing in both directions and not completely overlapping so as to give length; and several boughs for the head, pointing in the same direction. Note the twine job, especially on the head, mostly courtesy of Jacob. The head of the Yule Goat was donned with some dried holly. Please note the anatomical detail present, especially the phallus, the tail, the head shape, and the brown portion "stuck" in its anus. This goat was free-standing, most of the time.

Once complete, we moved the Jule Bock to Luke's fire pit and stuffed pieces of cardboard under the twine and in through the boughs. Neither the cardboard or the boughs would light very well, so we rolled up some newspapers and stuffed it in the same and similar places. Then our Yule Goat was devoured by the flames of the season, only needing to be adjusted by tipping its front half backward when the haunches collapsed. The flames went high and were bright and awesome. It took probably five minutes to burn. We were greatly distressed at the prospect of not having a working camera to record the event, but Luke scoured his house for batteries and the night was saved. A few chubbs on the go. After the burning we continued our great revelry about Luke's pond.

Jacob uttered some many days before the event something to the effect of "this may be our first Yule Goat burning, but it will not be our last."