Happy New Year!

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[Betty]

It sure looks warm down there while we're currently experiencing arctic, windy -8F (-22C) wind chills here. But 90-100F summers there would be pretty unbearable for me.

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[Betty]

I was reading the news where they mentioned people in London "braved" the rain to watch the fireworks & celebrate. Braved??? Who thinks up these words? It rains all the time in London... not quite as much as in Seattle, but they do get a lot of rain. So rain is not a big deal.

It's like if people in Virginia, Washington DC, or Florida get a couple of inches of snow, they close everything down & cars are crashing into each other. Up here we don't close anything until we get around a yard (close to a meter) of snow... and we don't crash into each other.

But even in the Nevada or Arizona desert, if it rains, people aren't brave to go out in it, they just get a little wet.

What was brave was the locals here going to see the fireworks & celebrate outside at a windy 0F to -2F with -15F (-26C) wind chills outside. Across the state in NYC & Time Square, it was only 10 degrees warmer too. That was brave... or maybe F'n crazy!

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[Angela M...]

Thanks Betty, I love all the pics of the celebrations in other lands and some of them I watched on New Years Eve. I have been under the weather quite a bit the last few month's now and undergoing several tests and bloodwork to help figure it out. I will be 70 next year and it seems as I race to face father time my body is reluctant to try and keep up. We know we will age and we look forward to milestone birthdays and retirement but until we reach them the reality of getting old sets in with our limited abilities. Still we are still on this side of the grass (well snow right now) and able to enjoy our visit's here with like minded friends. After experiencing some deaths of friends and family the past few months I wish a HAPPY NEW YEAR to you all and a healthy, prosperous 2018.