The beginning of a new year..!!

The start of a New Year!! What will it hold for us? It’s good that we can’t see too far ahead but I hope for everyone it will be a good year.
Our New years Eve was spent at home, just the two of us. We spent most of the evening chatting and reminiscing and in between watched a bit of TV.
My wife had made some sandwiches and a soup that could be warmed up later on in the evening. Our alcohol consume was moderate on the evening, two bottles of beer and one and a half bottles sparkling wine.
Midnight we went out onto the patio and watched the fireworks, ourselves we had bought five LONG sparklers, burning time for each one five minuets.
We never buy fireworks! It’s against my principals. Letting off fireworks should be left to the experts and not to every idiot who (mostly) have no responsibility when letting them off, thus causing a lot of damage and hurting a lot of people in doing so.
After we had watched the fireworks (this year we did not go outside) we watched the celebrations in Berlin on the TV.
At a quarter to one we went to bed, not bad for the older generation?
I must say we are both glad that the holidays are over and we return to normality. We took down all the Christmas decoration and the tree of course on Saturday morning tided the flat up and now we are ready for 2010.
During the night it snowed heavily again and I was up at quarter to six clearing the foot paths. They have to be cleared for seven on a Sunday, during the week it’s six (that’s the law) afterwards I went with our dog for is morning walk through the woods, he just loves the snow; I must say most dogs do.
Take care out there were ever you are. Tshüss

The Photo is one I took of No 1 Wahnenmühle. That's were our street gets it's name from.