All Here Slept Except Us
Dear friends,
As you know, almost everybody over here accepts December 31 atNew Years Eve, and January 1 as New Years Day. This is accordingto the calendar presently in common use.
To my family New Years Day happens at a different time. It happenson March 21 when Spring begins. To me that makes sense. Nevertheless,
there is a great deal of emotion and fun tied up in the old New YearsEve of December 31 and my young grandson hoped to see and hear someof it.
Everybody went to bed except him -- and me. His sister and brother
and his mother, and my husband, Uncle Ben. Jerson Hartmut and I
stayed up by watching the movie Dragonheart. It's not a top flightmovie, but interesting enough. And the dragon is quite spectacular.
If you like the feudal times when most of the people were held asserfs, then you may enjoy this movie of a noble knight and a nobledragon.
The minutes approached midnight. Jerson was struggling to stayawake, and he managed remarkably well. At last he wrapped himselfin a blanket and I in a shawl and we went on the second floor frontdeck to see what the action would be. Most of it was across thelake. There was some shouting, some banging of pots, some brilliantfireworks here and there, and that was about all. Somebody activatedtheir car alarm so the horn would beep but they soon shut it off. Andthat was it. We went back in, finished Dragonheart, and went to ourwarm beds.
Ben said something through his open bedroom window while we were outsideat midnight, and I replied. But he didn't remember any of it in the
morning. That was our exciting midnight adventure! ;-))
Friendly good wishes, Mary
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