Happy New Year!

[Butler Ford 40]

Here is wishing all and theirs a HAPPY NEW YEAR! Hope its a safe, happy, healthy 2021 for ya!

[rollingb]

Ditto, ditto, ditto!     

[Bigsmoke]

Thank you, sir, and the same back at you.    

Happy New Year to all.   

2021 has to be better than 2020.  Hope so, anyway. 

[Doc Nock]

I'll Echo those sentiments!

I might live alone here in NE TN but ya'l are in my thoughts and prayers..

Keep the shiny side up!

[Uncle Russ]

Happy New Year, to all you good folks!

Russ...

[BEAVERMAN]

 

[Winter Hawk]

Woke up at midnight to the sound of someone shooting off something nearby.  Stumbled downstairs and filled a couple of glasses with fake bubbly, brought them back to the bedroom and handed one to Carol.  We toasted in the new year  , turned off the lights and went back to sleep.  No hangovers this morning.  Ain't getting old wonderful?

~Kees~

[Hank in WV]

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all

[Bigsmoke]

Woke up at midnight to the sound of someone shooting off something nearby.  Stumbled downstairs and filled a couple of glasses with fake bubbly, brought them back to the bedroom and handed one to Carol.  We toasted in the new year  , turned off the lights and went back to sleep.  No hangovers this morning.  Ain't getting old wonderful?

~Kees~

Yessir, getting old is wonderful.  It is a privilege denied to many.
Ms. Smoke mentioned that she was awoken by the sound of some explosion at midnight, but I sure didn't hear a thing.  Did hear some booms around 9 PM, must have been people on eastern time?  She could have brought in a glass of Seagram's VO, but did she?  No, not at all.  55 years in training, wasted.  Rats !!!  On the other hand, she never has brought anything alcoholic in to cheer me up.  Something wrong there.   Of course, I haven't either.  Once in a while, I will bring her a cup of coffee.  That's about all.

John (Bigsmoke)

[Doc Nock]

Yessir, getting old is wonderful.  It is a privilege denied to many.
Ms. Smoke mentioned that she was awoken by the sound of some explosion at midnight, but I sure didn't hear a thing.  Did hear some booms around 9 PM, must have been people on eastern time?  She could have brought in a glass of Seagram's VO, but did she?  No, not at all.  55 years in training, wasted.  Rats !!!  On the other hand, she never has brought anything alcoholic in to cheer me up.  Something wrong there.   Of course, I haven't either.  Once in a while, I will bring her a cup of coffee.  That's about all.

John (Bigsmoke)

That was one hellacious big boom if'n you heard it on the left coast, Big John...

There was some of that around but i simply read a book sent me from up NE as a present, where I lived,  till about 12:30, then went to bed... I don't know what you consider "old" John, but I got tired of the folks bustin loose so I just stayed up cause I guess I'm a light sleeper...

Otherwise, it was a GRAND new YEAR

[Puffer]

 

[Bigsmoke]

I don't know what you consider "old" John

Doc, as I get older myself, I find it more difficult to define old.
When I was 10, it was probably anyone over 25. 
When I was 50, it was probably anyone over 70. 
Now that I am 75, 85 doesn't really seem that old. 
Funny how our perceptions of things change over the years.
When my mom passed last May, she was 95.  I really did not consider her old.  I just knew she had at least another 5 years in her.  It was only a few months before that, she went to a jazz festival with us and was out on the floor dancing up a storm.
Funny how that works.

John (Bigsmoke)

[Doc Nock]

Doc, as I get older myself, I find it more difficult to define old.
When I was 10, it was probably anyone over 25. 
When I was 50, it was probably anyone over 70. 
Now that I am 75, 85 doesn't really seem that old. 
Funny how our perceptions of things change over the years.
When my mom passed last May, she was 95.  I really did not consider her old.  I just knew she had at least another 5 years in her.  It was only a few months before that, she went to a jazz festival with us and was out on the floor dancing up a storm.
Funny how that works.

John (Bigsmoke)

indeed, John, perception is everything and it's in a constant state of flux...

I viewed myself as "indeterminate" in age till the big C hit, now with the other issues limitiing mobility and the matastasized junk, I'm as ready as I guess I can be, But, only God knows our days and HE ain't tellin

[Uncle Russ]

I think today was the day for getting rid of all the left-over Fire Works the kids and parents didn't set off on New Years Eve, while it was snowing pretty hard, windy and just not fit for youngsters to be outside.

They woke me up right at daylight....sounded like there was a serious gun fight out in the streets!
Then the snow-plow came trough, about 8:30,and covered up my freshly shoveled and salted sidewalk!
It's about noon now, and I ust came in the house from shoveling and throwing down salt....again!
This is NOT the way I wanted to start a New Year!
Shoveling snow is a young man's game!

Anyway, I'm hoping everyone else gets off to a better start than I have.
The kids (and a few parents) got me off on the wrong foot this morning, and all that shoveling finished it.....I'm in hopes the rest of the year is going to be better than today has been so far....and I hope the kids have all run out of Firecrackers!

Russ...