Happy New Years!!! Goodbye 2017 amd good riddens!!! Hello 2018!!! Just got out of the concert 1:34 AM Eastern Time… First song played after Aud Lang Sine was the iconic “My Life” what a way to start the New Year!!!
Glad you had a good time!
Dave
Never a dull moment at a Billy Joel concert, especially on NYE
Yeah, but if you’re going to do the job, at least try to do it properly!![sigh]
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Top of the morning ladies and gents. A fresh cup of coffee please.
New Years Eve was uneventful, spent most of it working due to the cold. One of my plowing contracts requires clear roads and walkways, and even though it’s not snowing at ten below, the wind has been drifting banks terribly.
The cold has gelled up most of our equipment. Two loaders, the plowing skidsteer and the skodsteer with bucket are all dead. The two tractors arent far behind as they started having issues with fuel yesterday too. The steady winds have made it the equivalent of negative twenty or below. Even running Kerosene mixed into our fuel isn’t helping. Gotta set up a shelter and some portable heaters today as the temp is supposed to rise up to one degree. A heat wave!
Time to get ready and go start the trucks.
It is so cold at the zoo that the hippopotamus got frostbite and lost an ear.
While the zookeeper was dealing with this one of the lions got out an killed a wildebeest.
Our resourceful zookeeper was able to save an ear from the dying wildebeest and graft this onto his ailing hippopotamus.
So let me be the first to say HIPPO GNU EAR!
ROAR
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When I was in High school, in 1982, in Cape Coral, FL (retirement community), I listened to Frank Sinatra, Brenda Lee, The Beatles, Elvis, and Louis Prima.
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Now, I really love Bruno Mars, Shawn Mendes, Taylor Swift, and Meghan Trainor.
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It just took me a while to catch up!
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-Kevin
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Goooood Morning and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Wishing today is the beginning of a healthy and prosperous year for all!!
I‘ll just sit here at the RC for a bit, have a cup of that Marrakesh coffee and the breakfast buffet please and thanks.
Ya’ll have a goodun ya hear!?
Good morning Diners,
Brunhilda, I’ll have an extra large coffee with lots of cream, please.
It’s 10 below zero Farenheit here. Actual, not wind chill. I don’t care what anyone says, that is cold. Might as well be in Winnepeg or Yellowknife at this rate.
Having morning coffee while waiting for the parade to start. I’ve probably said this before, but the Rose Parade needs to be seen live to be appreciated. MOH and I camped out on the parade route a couple of times. It was a lot of of fun,…then! After our son was born, he was about 5 months old on NYE, we wrapped him in a “snuggly,” wrapped my coat around both of us, and the three of us started at Colorado and Sierra Madre and walked the entire parade route to the Wriggly Mansion on Orange Grove and back. It was approximately 12 miles. On NYE, the parade route is a 6 mile long party! Good memories!
Hello to everyone, and I hope everyone isOK, safe, and warm.
JaBear, have a drink and calm down… The complaint department is on the fourth floor… [swg]
Kevin, I have heard those artists names, can’t name a single song though![(-D]
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Oh come on now… I am sure you know EVERY word to Shake It Off and Uptown Funk. You would need to live under the biggest boulder on earth in the smallest cave ever inhabited not to.
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-Kevin
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Never heard of them-Don’t think I’d want to.
FOSSIL FLIP aka CAVEMAN
Phil
Good morning and “HAPPY NEW YEAR” from the West Coast. It’s -3c with a red sky, so maybe some more snow on the way.
Well, Mom made it to 2018 and these started popping out at 0230hrs. The wife not only has the flu but has now thrown her back out in the process. I will be on puppy watch today so the wife can rest. The trains are just through the door from the family room so they will run while I go back and forth to keep an eye on things.
Just remembered I have to take #1 daughter to riding lessons. Three hours in the cold is not as easy as it use to be for me.[sigh]
Always like to play Gordon Lightfoot’s “song for a winters night” when it is snowing out. Found this version from 1967. Gords lyrics always put you there even 51 years later.
Happy New Year Ulrich.[:)]
Oh I know that second one, wait no I’m thinking Uptown Girl!
Never heard of either!
In the words of the song “Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll” “today’s music ain’t got the same soul”
Now I do know all the words to The Longest Time, or Moon River, or Love Story, or This Night
Newest songs I listen to is those off the album River Of Dreams which is 25 years old…
I don’t know new music nor do I care to…
Happy New Year everyone!
Afternoon folks!
Hi Chloe! Oh, nothing right now for me, I am about to pack up yet another Dish of my famous winter squash for the New years Day Dinner at my son’s house, put on by his MIL…
Ahhhhhh (shakes head and groans…) Very Punny, [color=red]Brother Lion[/color], very punny!
You young kids don’t seem to know, you have to be an old guy (like me) to have heard the best bands. Two of my favorites were BS&T (went to college with Lou Solof the lead trumpet player), and Chuck Mangione’s band (He was the director of the Eastman Jazz Ensemble back then). Used to sit and chat with him in the main hallway at Eastman when he would be there. Personally I used to like the classics… You know, J. S. Bach, Mozart, Buxtehuda, Brahms… Those guys. Just remember, Brahms spelled backward, Smharb…
Have a good one out there!
73
Afternoon Diners,
The only modern music I listen to is Taylor Swift. A year or two ago.
Happy New Year’s Day everyday.
I go between Outlaw Country, and classical.
Happy New Year!
Mike
My future ex wife [A][:-^]
Batman
Glad to see the puppy rail in the whelping nest, not many know about that. I also used T.E. Scotts heated puppy bowl, I have known pups being lost to cold temperatures. That is a fine looking litter.
Dorsey Brothers, Bing Crosby, Lead Belley, Perry Como, Les Brown, Guy Lombardo, were a few of my favorites, along with Les Paul and Mary Ford, Skeeter Davis, and Hank Williams.
NWP/SWP
As most of us are of an age that if we don’t die fairly soon, we are going to be buried on suspicion–the format has a great deal of meaning to many of us, developed over a period of time, and in many cases the result of relationships built between the members here. You are not expected to know these things–should uncertainty arise, just ask for guidence, it will kindly be given. Mr. Bear comes from a society that is very direct, and there are those things that mean a great deal to him. Again, you, at this point in time, do not know these things. Stick with it and you will, it is not a bad ride.
Ponder this, At my age I know what it is to be young, as yet, you do not know what it is to get old.
Todays temp. AM -5F, has warmed up to +7, wind 15-25, NW. 4 deer feeding on the corn in the driveway, both dogs in front of the wood stove, and it is running at full draft on the firebox, 1/2 draft on the stove pipe. River is now frozen solid.
From the Island
herrinchoker