Saturday 9

Hello on this very cold Saturday night!
It has been in the single digits and this morning we had snow.
Tonight was a good night for a dinner of fresh Atlantic Cod fish, parsley and buttered potatoes and green beans. Very yummy on a cold winter's night.
What about you?
And please, three rousing cheers for our commercial fishmen who brave this kind of weather to bring you good fish. Many of my neighbors are fisherman and are employed on boats of all kinds.  These are tough, hardy men.

I thought it would be nice to join with Terri for Saturday 9.
This one is about Barry Manilow's song "It's Just Another New Year's Eve"

1) In this song, Barry Manilow declares New Year's Eve is "just another night." How do you feel about 12/31? Is it a special occasion or just another night?

I love New Year's Eve quite a lot and always have though I find it bitter-sweet.Well, as a kid I would cry a bit for the end of the old year. Now I am not so emotional.

But I used to love Guy Lombardo when I was a very little girl and all the glitter and glam associated with New Year's Eve.

My mother would host an open house for those going out to parites.   There were hors d'oeuvres and champagne, turkey and roast beef for sandwiches on tiny bread, salads and ices and all manner of wonderful things to eat.  I adored the tiny cocktail sandwiches and the array of petit fours!

The flow of guests in and out was wonderful. Guy Lombardo played in the background and later Dick Clark, though the New Year's Rockin Eve always seemed so not right to me.

My absolute favorite part of New Year's Eve is fireworks from Funchal, Portugal
.No one and I do mean NO ONE does fireworks like the Portuguese!

2) Barry sings that in the past year, "we've made mistakes." What in 2017 do you wish you could do over?

Probably the whole year but not because it was so awful but just to perhaps do a better job here and there.  I would like to do many things over with a new and improved brain! I always think I can do better.

3) He also sings of happy nights with friends. Tell us about a really good time you had in the past year.

Party Time!!!

There were a lot of them but they all center on my little family.  Hosting a water gun fight party in the neighborhood for the Famous Anonymous and her high school friends was very special. They are a wonderful group of people all headed off to college/armed services this next year. God bless them.

4) The song references growing wiser, as well as older. What's something you learned or discovered in 2017?

That I am enough. (thank you  Lisa Romano)

That I need new friends and to get out more.

5)  What do you wish you had spent more time doing during 2017?

Praying/learning/going places

6)  What was the smartest thing you did all this past year?

Realizing that my thoughts  on ancient times are correct. 
Giants did populate the world, many so-called natural sites are not natural at all and the supposed fairy tales and myths of older cultures are actual rememberances of real history. 

The history taught is mostly propaganda and garbage.

7)  As this year comes to a close, what are you most grateful for?

I am not fond of trying to pinpoint one thing to be grateful for. There is too much.

8) When this week's featured artist, Barry Manilow, was a jingle writer, he wrote the famous "You deserve a break today at McDonald's" song. When's the last time you visited the Golden Arches?

I once used their bathroom, does that count?

I don't eat fast food.

  9) Random question: In high school, were you more popular with the boys or the girls?

  I think it was about equal.I had many good girl friends and I had boy friends  of the romantic kind and the plain pal  kind.
  Loved high school :)

"Panthers"

I will post the Funchal Madeira Portual fireworks here tomorrow night. Don't miss them as they are spectacular.
Until New Year's Eve, stay warm, stay happy and stay safe.

siggie given to me by Judy