Giusi wrote:
> "Leonard Blaisdell" > ha scritto nel
> messaggio
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>> My wife and I cooked or otherwise assembled some finger food for New
>> Years to enjoy together. We had done various things together and
>> apart since 4 PM while waiting for the big moment. The big moment
>> just arrived. I got off the computer and she quit watching HGTV so
>> that we could hold hands and kiss at New Years.
>> We have three local stations. One was showing 'Rocking New Year from
>> New York', one was showing something less inspiring and one had two
>> young newspeople bundled up and showing our town. We chose that
>> station, got close and held hands. They yammered for a while and
>> then said 'lets go in for the countdown'.
>> We didn't hear the first number they said which was three. The second
>> number had slowly dawned on me when I clearly heard one. I hope I was
>> kissing my wife when New Years came, but I might have been a second
>> late. Happy New Year to you all!
>>
>> leo
>
> You will always have happy years if you go on like that.
> I went to a shared dinner with Italian friends, smaller this year at
> 15 attendees, and brought as asked an American pie. They like to
> sing "Bye Bye Miss American Pie" I think. The lentils for wealth
> were superb last night, as was everything else. Toasts at 12,
> fireworks as far as you could see outside in the bitter cold. Another
> wondeful evening to begin another wonderful year.

We were huddled up in our wee caravan listening to the fireworks outside)
I can't think of a better way to spend Hogmanay than huddled up with my
David)