Monday December 31st (aka Merry New Years Eve!)

[Ramster]

Good morning

No cry-babies here Just working away as usual I did have a friend over yesterday to have a few mellow beers and watch the first football games then he stayed and watched the 2nd round of games too. The games were Very good. Dallas Giants game didn't mean anything but my friend is a huge Dallas fan and the game was great. Then the Browns Ravens game was good too! And the Steelers at the same time, come back to win! Too bad the Browns didn't win.

Oh, I did have 11 empty beer bottles on the counter when my friend left and my wife said, there's a lot of empties, I guess Derek drank some of your beers? I said yup, he had 1

[Fonz]

Good afternoon,

Now that I ruined Greenies movie evening (see netflix thread) I feel kinda bad.

Anyway today all the kids around here do the trick or treat thing. Going door to door, singing a song and getting their pockets stuffed with money and candy. This year my gilrfriend took the kids out, too bad because parents get beer and schnapps on numerous locations and she doesn't drink. I stayed home to hand out candy.

New Year's eve dinner party with some friends starts in
2,5 hours.


Have a good day all!

ps. Damn sometimes I miss this place….

[jollyhumper]

Originally Posted by Fonz

Anyway today all the kids around here do the trick or treat thing. Going door to door, singing a song and getting their pockets stuffed with money and candy.

How cool! We used to do that as kids, usually the third day (27).
Hardly any kid does that anymore, after Halloween came into play in Norway.

[Pagan]

Originally Posted by Fonz

Good afternoon,

Anyway today all the kids around here do the trick or treat thing. Going door to door, singing a song and getting their pockets stuffed with money and candy. This year my gilrfriend took the kids out, too bad because parents get beer and schnapps on numerous locations and she doesn't drink. I stayed home to hand out candy.

Yep, they do that here in this part of Finland too. Nuutinpäivä - St. Knut's Day. We don't observe that until January 13th. The Husband said he used to dress up Halloween costume style and go door to door demanding treats. He said there were rude people that gave out apples and raisins, but not candy too. Some parts of the country, the young men dress like goats, but not here.

We have a nice windy, snowy evening here but it has been raining all day. The Husband just came inside from smoking and reports it is heavy and wet. Our national power outage map looks pretty scary, but nothing close to us is dark - yet. (http://www.sähkökatkokartta.fi/#/kunnat) Looks like I had better try to get stuff done while we have power...