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Happy New Year!

I'm doing laundry and fun stuff like that. Same thing I would be doing any NYE after I stopped working in hospitals. It is still strange and I miss those days.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Happy New Year!
My beloved wife made a classic New Orleans New Year's treat: Chicken with black-eyed peas! Laced with Tabasco I had to go back for seconds! OMG, it is SO good! With bacon, celery and who knows what else! Favorite family treat! I've been looking forward to it for WEEKS now!

To thank her, (and her aching back) I folded the laundry....I HATE folding laundry, she usually doesn't mind -- She HATES emptying the dishwasher, I don't mind that.

Just the 3 of us, myself, her, and our younger son. The older son called during dinner so he was on speaker.
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

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Happy New Years y’all, from the heart of this Covid beast!
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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Lots of gun shots and firecrackers last night. Some sirens. Corn bread and coffee this morning, so I guess we made it through.

This last year has been like riding in a packed train with couples fighting in front and behind you, with a snoring fat guy and a capricious youngster across the aisle, and sitting next to an audibly frightened nun. We reach the station and disembark.

Here's to a new year with less political drama and a wider variety of craft beers demanding evaluation.

Cheers! :beer2:

CDFingers
Crazy cat peekin' through a lace bandana
like a one-eyed Cheshire, like a diamond-eyed Jack

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Happy New Year Y'all.
We are going to kick back with Mimosas, Waffles, and Sausages. Too bad it rained all day yesterday, or we would be planning a range trip to try out my new skeet gun (I will be posting it on the Gun Porn Thread here directly).
Never confuse knowledge with intelligence.

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Lovely cold morning here in NJ to start the New Year. Good coffee (Swings!) and time to pay 1st of the month bills. (ugh!) At least it's all electronic so I don't have to write checks.

The Chicken and Black-eyed Peas was so good at 1:30am I couldn't resist getting a bowl and eating it cold! That and Corzo Anejo, and I was happy!
"Even if the bee could explain to the fly why pollen is better than shit, the fly could never understand."

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Happy New Year all!!

Blackeyed peas w/smoked ham chunks, cornbread, red onion for breakfast.
"Being Republican is more than a difference of opinion - it's a character flaw." "COVID can fix STUPID!"
The greatest, most aggrieved mistake EVER made in USA was electing DJT as POTUS.

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A very Happy and Healthy New Year to you and yours ! We will survive ! :beer2:

Another 30F degree morning and beautiful snow covered mountains, from our recent storm.

A few fireworks last night but mostly very quiet here.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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Our New Years Eve dinner consisted of Asian Hot Pot with thin-sliced lamb and beef (fatty, ribeye cut), shrimp and mussels, beef and fish-balls. Napa-cabbage, “chrysanthemum” leaves (edible kind), enoki mushrooms, rice-stick noodles, organic tofu cut into large cubes. Everything is raw and on the serving table surrounding a shallow pot of boiling prepared vegetable broth with a fire beneath to keep it boiling. We used a communal “serving” chopstick to pick up the uncooked pieces of whatever we want to dunk in the hot pot. We use a small wire net to fish it out when cooked to our desired consistency and put it into our bowl of “satay” sauce (soy cause and various other additions, again personally mixed). The whole experience is rather fun and entirely unsafe during Covid though the boiling pot likely acts as an antiseptic process. Our table was immediate family members anyway. All-you-can-eat, as it were. An early dinner so whatever left-over we packed up in a cooler and dropped off at my sister’s house to share the family experience from a distance.

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https://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/ ... -pots.html
"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence. There is hope for a violent man to become non-violent. There is no such hope for the impotent." -Gandhi

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Bisbee wrote:Our New Years Eve dinner consisted of Asian Hot Pot with thin-sliced lamb and beef (fatty, ribeye cut), shrimp and mussels, beef and fish-balls. Napa-cabbage, “chrysanthemum” leaves (edible kind), enoki mushrooms, rice-stick noodles, organic tofu cut into large cubes. Everything is raw and on the serving table surrounding a shallow pot of boiling prepared vegetable broth with a fire beneath to keep it boiling. We used a communal “serving” chopstick to pick up the uncooked pieces of whatever we want to dunk in the hot pot. We use a small wire net to fish it out when cooked to our desired consistency and put it into our bowl of “satay” sauce (soy cause and various other additions, again personally mixed). The whole experience is rather fun and entirely unsafe during Covid though the boiling pot likely acts as an antiseptic process. Our table was immediate family members anyway. All-you-can-eat, as it were. An early dinner so whatever left-over we packed up in a cooler and dropped off at my sister’s house to share the family experience from a distance.

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https://www.thestar.com/life/food_wine/ ... -pots.html
I could eat all of that, Bisbee! I am slayed.
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Damn, Bisbee! We had panettone with coffee today and homemade shredded beef burritos with fresh guac last night. I won't even pretend to be able to do better than that.

It has been raining since Wednesday with some breaks for dog walking (60 degrees right now). So far, so good.

Waiting for the coup this week to happen or not happen. I sure hope this week ends with good news for 2021.
It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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K9s wrote: Fri Jan 01, 2021 3:07 pm
Waiting for the coup this week to happen or not happen. I sure hope this week ends with good news for 2021.
Share the fear, but cynically - if Donny wanted a dictatorship, he doesn't really need a Congress anymore. And then where does that leave Mitch?

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Chinese is my favorite Bisbee, that looks so good and now I'm hungry. My favorite Chinese restaurant up here was closed for the holidays, I'll see if they're open tomorrow for take out, otherwise off to the #2 favorite Chinese restaurant.
"Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts." - Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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