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I really miss those walks.

Yowie

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: Just curious..what traditions do you celebrate to bring in the New
: Year?/.....Here(or atleast in WEST Texas) you eat Black-Eyed
: Peas....also..if you are of the German breed(or atleast within our
extended
: family) you also eat,  cabbage(to insure, good luck and
prosperity)....I've
: had the peas cooking in the crock pot for the last 12 hours(with a choice,
: ham hock) and the cabbage has been in the crock for the last 2 month(ours
,
: the Bavarian style(with caraway seeds)hmmmmmm Good!...

As a fellow southerner, I would say that you've named the typical
"start-the-New-Year-right" feast - at least what the natives eat around
here - most of the residents in this area are *not* southerners and totally
clueless as to ingredients thereof: the b.e.peas, cabbage, a good pork joint
(the caraway seeds must be a German touch of home) with beer "to wash it
down with"- south Florida (probably the warmest spot in the nation) salutes
West Texas and all other places enjoying the repast today along with us!

We went to an interesting party on New Year's Eve.  This woman doesn't
like to stay up too late, so she has started a party tradition of
celebrating New Year's in Rio de Janeiro time (9:00 pm by our clocks).
In Rio, apparently, people write their wishes for the coming year on
little paper boats.  They go down to the beach, and send the boats out
into the water.  Then they walk through seven waves, insuring that
their wishes for the new year will come true.  Now, being that we're
in Ohio, holding to that tradition isn't possible.  So what this woman
does is have everyone write their wishes on a paper airplane.  Then at
midnight Rio time, everybody goes outside (brrrr), and launches their
paper airplanes.  Then everyone does seven of those football game type
waves -- lol.  Anyway, something different.

Ginger-lyn

BTW I live in Veronica Avenue and the next street is called Morgan Avenue -
Morgan was the name of the Captain of the sloop.

Bev

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 > In Finland, to predict what will happen during the new year, we melt
 > down a piece of tin (well, actually, nowadays it's mostly lead), let it
 > drop in a bucket of cold water, and make a reading. When the molten
 > lead is dropped in cold water, it takes on strange twisted forms, which
 > are supposed to symbolise all kinds of things. I haven't done this in years,
 > but it can be quite fun. Every person melts their own piece and everyone
 > helps to "interpret" it.

I went to a New Year's party where we did just this, but with wax instead
of tin. We melted the wax and then dropped it into a bowl of ice water. We
then held the cooled and harded pieces of wax up in front of a candle and
analyzed the shadow that it cast on the wall. (Well, maybe "analyzed" is
the wrong word - more like "hallucinated images and free-associated
meanings." :))

Joyce

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then:

The fuzzy black feral kitten (whos feral mom is on my bed, sleeping on
the heating pad), who still won't let me near him, seems to prefer the
peas to the dry catfood I put out for the strays. I officially have
only three cats, but I'm going through an 18 pound bag of catchow
every week! I'm glad he likes the peas. I might make him another pot.

julie b from tennessee, stuck here in the frozen tundra, 600 miles
from home.
Did I mention it's _flat_ here? I miss my mountains.
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Question?..Where are you? To be in the frozen "tundra"......Liz

 > julie b from tennessee, stuck here in the frozen tundra, 600 miles

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