New Years day, and the fiscal cliff deal....

Last night as we were in the middle of the New Years Eve celebration Biscuit was in the closet, and then crawled under the bed all the way back to the wall under the headboard....

The neighbors over the back wall were having a party in the back yard shooting off roman candles...  At first they were just sparkler type balls that shot bright sparks in all directions once up in the air...  But then they started with more traditional balls that flew up into the air and burned in colors, like green and red, purple and blue...

Biscuit is only two and didn't understand these devils..  She has seen fireworks at the lake before, but they were the more commercial kind the went hundreds of feet into the air...

The smoke that we smelled in the house wasn't from the fireworks, but rather they had a traditional wood fire burning on the ground or perhaps in a metal fire pit.  We couldn't see over the tall concrete wall...

But we could see the smoke and embers rising in the night cold damp air..  The folks were partying around the camp fire just like we would in a campground...  You could hear the music from the stereo on the back patio, and people were talking and laughing...

At midnight all heck broke loose in our subdivision, as we are a couple of miles from the other parts of housing divisions...  Boom, boom, boomboomboom....  The New Year is here....

When I went to bed, Biscuit was under the covers with Loyce..    She doesn't care too much for the parties, and has no idea about some date on the calendar....  What's a calendar anyway....?

Of course this morning in the sunshine the party was long over, but we couldn't get Biscuit out to go potty....  It was right down to freezing here last night as I recorded 34, but I think she was looking at that smoking back wall expecting booms any minute...  Who says dogs can't remember anything....?

Today was our typical New Years day with the Rose Parade and the Football games, and the internet, messing around with I tunes this afternoon trying to understand syncing and using the program on a Windows laptop as well...  That came to a halt, as Loyce got a call from her sister, which stopped the messing around... with the phone....  but she always enjoys talking to her sister...

The sun seemed to go down all too quickly, as I was out grilling those steaks that we decided not to do yesterday....  Steak dinner with baked potato and fresh muffins that we baked along with the potatoes...

Just in as I was typing, the tax increase with the expiration of the Bush tax cuts has been averted...  Nothing was done to work on the debt ceiling or the reduction in spending...  Congress kicked the can down the road for two months more...   We'll be right back here again on February 28...

Since this isn't a political blog I'll stop before I offer any opinions...

Retired Rod