Happy New Year!!
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Iâm sipping my afternoon prosecco while Iâm puttering around in the kitchen. Just made Smitten Kitchenâs olive oil brownies, havenât tasted them yet.
Edit: the brownies are fantastic. More deeply chocolatey than the usual Smitten Kitchen Favorite Brownies (butter based). Still warm, couldnât wait to sample!
Also making some crispy baked tofu to go with tonightâs roasted vegetables (cauliflower/brussels sprouts/sweet potato) with a vinaigrette dressing. How virtuous! A far cry from Mikâs steaks. (Mr. AM is a weekday vegetarian; we had our prime rib cheater last week for Christmas.)
May pop some actual champagne tonight, or Mumm Napa. We shall see. Mr. AM doesnât love bubbly the way I do.
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Happy New Year!
I'm not usually retired before 1 am, so I'll be up to see the New Year in. It's been a lovely day, really. Time with Cielo, sewing, piano. And we're in a mild streak weather-wise, high of 44, low of 34 tonight. Very lovely.
Here is a poem for this evening (and probably many days to come!)....
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell BerryWhen despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my childrenâs lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -
Happy New Year!
I'm not usually retired before 1 am, so I'll be up to see the New Year in. It's been a lovely day, really. Time with Cielo, sewing, piano. And we're in a mild streak weather-wise, high of 44, low of 34 tonight. Very lovely.
Here is a poem for this evening (and probably many days to come!)....
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell BerryWhen despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my childrenâs lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
And two dogs.
Chaos!
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Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
And two dogs.
Chaos!
@Steve-Miller said in Happy New Year!!:
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
Already?! Aren't you "new" in that neighborhood?!
This is amazing!
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No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
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Saw Queer starring Daniel Craig this afternoon. Expected several sex explicit
scenes after reading the reviews.
Nope. I was surprising seeing a popular movie star doing those non-explicit scenes.
Drugs, including alcohol were constant, not sex. Burroughs wrote Junkie, not a sex book.
The movie was well done, not surprised the reviews were positive. Daniel Craig is due the recognition he is getting for his acting. tv
We stopped at a Flower Child for a light dinner and we are home watching the celebrations on TV. May stay until 10; there are clothes in the drier. -
@Steve-Miller said in Happy New Year!!:
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
Already?! Aren't you "new" in that neighborhood?!
This is amazing!
Itâs my whole family + Kimâs in-laws and family + Gregâs MIL and one of the kidâs friends from school.
We played âPunchbowlâ, now watching NY Rocking Eve upstairs and football downstairs.
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No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
@RealPlayer We did the ball drop one year; we were at a theater seeing Smokey Robinson. They sent us outside for the ball drop, then we all came back for the end of the show! Back in the 80âs. We lived in Queens at the time.
