At The Turn of the Year

The country is in a deep freeze and even we are hovering just above 0 degrees, nothing like the dangerous cold anywhere east of Vancouver. Not to mention north.
New Year's Day in most of Canada is the beginning of settling in for a couple of months of winter.
Not meaning to be irritating but no doubt this statement will be: for me New Year's Day is the beginning of the end of winter.
We've only gained about 5 minutes of daylight since December 22 and we still have lots of time to have a snow event, but the worst is over. Maybe. The worst being the wet dark days of November. December is mitigated by Christmas lights and festivities and January is just a big improvement over both. Sister Bets says February, but not me. I'm ready!

We usually bring in the New Year quietly and always stay up till midnight to ring it in properly with champagne and the fireworks from Seattle.

table for two

Today we had sundowners outside with the propane fire-pit to take the chill off.

We are a bit whacky on this side of the world but we'll be a long time dead so let's enjoy the now we've got. It was a super moon, not to be ignored!

Santa Claus brought us a 1000 piece jigsaw puzzle that we finished today, 6 days from start to finish. Not much productive took place during the week! We weren't completely anti-social but the puzzle certainly kept us off the streets and out of the malls. Well okay, there was one short foray to Mayfair Mall just because it didn't seem right to ignore the sales completely. Right?

this was a challenge!

So 2018 is with us. Let's plan to treat it well, with fun, good people, and a dash of good works.