And best wishes to all for a better 2023!!!
There is a long tradition in the US Navy of the first log entry in the ship/submarine/squadron log for the new year must be in verse…
This is just one example, and a pretty dang good one!
The other (southern) tradition is food based…
Ham, Hoppin’ John, collard greens, and cornbread, all of which have meaning!
I’d say it works pretty well, but… I’m not wealthy, and I don’t have a pile of gold… LOL
Happy New Year!
Have a wonderful mew year!
Happy New Year !!!
But you have cornbread!
Happy New Year!
$HOUSEMATE claims eating black-eyed peas on the 1st of the year brings good luck. My suspicion is that having to eat the stinkbeans then is so that the rest of the year seems better by comparison. Sort “If you start each day by swallowing a live toad, nothing worse will happen the rest of the day – to you OR the toad.”
And I get the idea of “Hoppin’ John” but I agree with the fellow who said when he first encountered the name it sounded like some sort of horrific plumbing disaster.
That is like what a Minnesota Swede told me about Lutefisk.
That it is something they eat once a year to remind them that tgey no longer have to eat it all winter. :-》
Happy New Year to all of us, and may we all find a way to survive and restore the America we grew up in.
Confusion to the enemy, and Damn the Globalist totalitarian bastards!!!
John in Indy
If you don’t eat the black-eyed peas, my great-grandmother will come back to haunt you…
Happy New Year! Wishing you and your readers a good 2023.
I will sprinkle salt around my house when I am done typing.
chuckling
A pleasant New Year to everyone.
Happy New Year to all – may 2023 be a LOT better for us and our country than last year was.
All- Thanks! Now go forth and screw up the first check you write…LOL
I hired an exorcist to get here at ten and start the process of making Damn Sure 2022 LEFT our property no later than midnight. Now I’m just hoping it worked.
Nolan- LOL
Hey Old NFO;
Happy New Year to You and Yours!!!
Happy New Year!
And yum, venison here, must make some cornbread…
Bob/LSP- Same to y’all!
NFO, thanks for the gold you give us in your thoughts, observations, and stories.
You provide relief and a beacon of hope in these times. Thanks.
John in Indy