Open Thread – New Year’s Eve!
Well, Happy Last Day of 2009 everyone! It’s been an interesting year to say the least.
First things first. Have you seen the moon? If you haven’t, drop everything and go look! In my neck of the woods, the “Blue Moon” is shining in a clear sky and reflecting off the icy cold water of Cook Inlet. It was a breathtaking sight on the way to work this morning. Something like this comes along… (yes I’m going to say it)… once in a blue moon!
Second things second.
There was a little “excitement” at Mudflats Central last night so I’m a little late with the Open Thread. It was a night of worry, but I’m happy to report that all is well.
So, what I was supposed to tell you is that the folks over at the Forum have cooked up a New Year’s thread where you can go and post pics of your favorite “hooves on the ground” guy – Brian the Moose. Brian, as the Mudflats mascot, has come to represent a certain spirit of wildness, bigness of heart, and sense of adventure and fun that I think of when I think of this community. The “real” Brian is a bull moose that loves to hang out around my house. He’s all of them really, because Brian as a symbol will outlast any one particular animal.
One additional thing you may not know is that Brian makes conservative bloggers NUTS. It’s true. You can’t believe how many of them talk about our shaggy friend and how it’s impossible for anyone to have a sense of fun and and a brain at the same time. Or so they believe. And just between you and me, (whispers) it makes me love him all the more.
So, over the last year many of you have found your own “Brians,” whether they be paper print outs, action figures, or stuffed ones. Like minded groups have rallied around symbols since the beginning of like-minded groups. So the Forum folks want your pictures of what YOUR Brian is up to this New Year’s Eve.
Here’s the link:
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9096.0.html
And all are invited to share on this thread what your New Year’s Resolutions are for 2010, in addition to the usual links and chat on the open thread.
Perhaps your New Year’s Resolution will be to join the Mudflats Forum, hop in and enjoy a new experience with a whole big family of Mudflatters you never knew existed! Now that’s an adventure!
There was supposed to be partial lunar eclipse this morning around 8:30 a.m. Out here in the Sound, it is overcast of course. Anybody else get to see it?
Happy New Year!
The Worlds Largest Lightsaber
http://i.imgur.com/ec5Vm.jpg
Happy New Year AKM, Brian and Mudpups around the world!
By the time that eclipse rolls around (on our radio they said 9:50 AST this morning…) the moon will be below the mountains here. It was beautiful hanging over the Gov’s Mansion at 7:55 this morning though as we were walking to work.
Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year to all from the Newfoundland Pack in Western Massachusetts!
Snowing here, so need a miracle to see the moon. Now that I think about it, each time there’s something up in the heavens to see, we get overcast.
That’s just weird.
Here’s an article about the eclipse: http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/1074104.html
So Long 2009 ! You sure were quite an adventure! ( Did $P really quit only a few months ago ?? Seems like freakin’ forever!)
Wishing EVERYONE a Very Happy New Year!
My resolution for 2010 is , as always, to become better organized. I just plain s*u*c*k at it. (and i’m a virgo, no less. how can that be??) I get a little better with each passing year but even if I live to be 102 I’ll never really get there. I think making the resolution every year is the only thing keeping me check !
Buffalo Brian is already gearing up to ring in 2010. Just need to figure out how to upload a photo to the forum thread.
So I guess today is the day $P will speak the truth about something ? Or does she defy even the “once in a blue moon” rule ?
And wow, that’s some camera ya got there AKM. *wink *
clouds and rain here in raleigh NC. Happy New Year Mudflats, best blog ever! time has sped up and up and up – i’m mentally still feeling about 2006, 2007 or so. my new year’s resolution (i do this annually) is to NEVER write 2009 when it’s already 2010! ha
BuffaloGal – another virgo who is way more sloppy and disorganized than we’re cracked up to to be. if i could i’d take a picture of my virgo co-worker’s desk – papers everywhere. i’m more virgo-ish at work than at home.
Aawww….I had a bunch of Brian’s and his Cousins or his Brothers all tromping around the house here ‘ before ‘ X-mas having a grand ol time but they all said they had somewhere to go for the Holiday and took off. They sort of got adopted…. and flew off to a bunch of cities.
Not even one hung around for the New Year.
I’ll bet some of them will show up tonight though…. mention Party and Brian and his pals are there.
Word on the street was that someone saw him talking to a couple of squirrel friends of his…..hanging out by someones Kitchen door.
Happy New Year you the best bunch of people on the net !!
, it is overcast and we are supposed to be in for a big snowstorm.
No blue moon here
Happy New Year!
New Year’s resolution: not referring to previous decade as the “aughts”.
Hopefully, the super-bright full moon (also last night) is a good omen!
Good luck to all dogs (and dog owners), with all the fireworks!
BigPete, this is for you:
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-photoissue2009-pictures,0,5882421.photogallery?index=la-tr-photoissue-kuo5zrnc-5
Happy New Year to all! (I’m glad this decade is behind us!)
Brian is snowed-in in CT this morning, I think it’s making him a little homesick. He enjoyed helping me shovel, though!
Happy New Year to AKM and mudpups across the globe.
We have just had our first fall of snow here in Dublin. Yipee!
a blessed & Happy New Year to each and every Mudpup…thanks for a year of information and comradery…thanks to AKM for a job well done!
…be safe out there! ♥
lets hope and pray we reach our goal for a palin-free 2010 – I know this won’t come easy
Happy New Year everyone,stay safe and happy
“My” Brian will be purchased today from the Mudflats link at Amazon, so he’ll miss the New Year, in a box. But from what you’ve said and shown, he’s a stoic sort, perhaps ready to take a nice, long nap and be ready to represent Mudpups and the Alaska progressive spirit here in Washington, D.C. Happy and healthy 2010 to all of the smart, snarky, funny, fact-filled folk I’ve “met” thanks to Alaska blogs!
Happy New Year All! Buffalo gal…your comment made me smile; Palin would lie even if the truth sounded better.
Best New Year Wishes to AKM and everyone. I have enjoyed your comments and thoughts, humor and wisdom, insights and links. Health and Happiness!
Moon was beautiful last night, but it will be overcast tonight. So I’m glad I saw it when I did.
And Happy New Year to all. It can’t help but be better!
BuffaloGal and Barbara,
Another virgo checking in and lamenting my lack of organizational skills! I use to be a text book virgo and then went and had children and lost most of those skills. I don’t even question why that is anymore.
Happy New Year and hoping that everyone here enjoys a safe, healthy and happy 2010! May it bring an end to SWWNBN’s shenanigans! And everyone else on the 2009 Muddies List. (with the exception of Levi, who probably shouldn’t be there)
Happy New Year AKM and all Mudpuppies. Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you do and all that you are. What a joy to find this online community. What a joy to exchange greetings and presents even with a fellow mudpuppy. I look forward to 2010 and to learning even more about our 49th state, a beautiful place, and to communication, dialogue, and camaraderie (I hope I am spelling everything correctly) on the Mudflats! Love and peace to all. Namaste. Daisydem
Now THIS story will make you smile…. and laugh. ( on the Huffpo )
The Tea-Bagger Partiers have not even had their first convention yet and they are starting to get angry…. at each other. The say the Corporate entities within the GOP have hijacked them and their message.
Happy New Year !!!… Tea-Baggers…
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“Would a true Tea Party patriot drop nearly $1,600 in donor money for a small meal at a fancy steakhouse? Robin Stublen says no, and he’s mad as hell about the profligate expenditures of a GOP political organization that has glommed on to his grassroots movement.”
{ Hmmm… how much would it have cost…. for just a cup-of-tea there ?}
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/30/tea-partiers-decry-the-hi_n_407388.html
Peace and reconciliation for us all for the next decade and beyond…
A friend just gave me a marvelous maroon metal moose, stands 23 inches high – and she couldn’t figure out why I exclaimed, “Oh! You have brought me Brian for Christmas!” He has pride of place in front of my Tulikivi fireplace. Of course we have the real thing wandering around outside (driving the dogs nuts), but this Brian brings you, AKM, and all my Mudpup friends into my living room 24/7.
Here’s a ‘high five’ and a ‘fist bump’ for all the diligence and hard work – and great fun – we have shared in 2009.
May 2010 be the year of more people waking up, truths being revealed, and many of those who have been ‘dumbed-down’ coming out of their hypnotized state.
Happy Blue Moon – it’s been great for taking a midnight ski!
Dear Mudpups All – HEALTH AND HAPPINESS BE YOURS IN THIS NEW YEAR!
{{{{{ You are all so precious to me! }}}}}
http://www.economist.com/obituary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15108655 is a great obituary for two British WWI veterans, basically saying WAR IS STUPID (and I don’t just mean the a*hole who got one of my votes in the Muddies). I hope everyone had a Muddy Xmas, and that all of us have a Puppy New Year. Hope to C U in chat! I have yet to get a Brian of my own. My last encounter was with a Brenda in Maine, years ago. My resolution for 2010: Increase the peace, improve the cash flow, continue the healing, and spend more time with the love of my life.
Absolutely fantastic full moon hanging in the western sky here on Oahu at 5AM – one of the brightest full moons I’ve seen in quite some time. Stared at it so long, I was moon-blind when I turned around to walk back into the house.
To Mudflatters all around this crazy mixed-up planet, may you have a safe and sane New Year’s Eve celebration and may you wake tomorrow to have a healthy and happy New Year for you and your family.
Both my mudboots and my Brian are entirely imaginary, but they leap into existence whenever a tea-bagger, faux-newser, blockhead or starry-eyed palin-fan rears their head up near me. Brian always nods solemnly with a tilt of his rack and the boots squeak little warnings to keep my temper. After every successful encounter (the ones where I don’t end up smashing something fragile), Brian gets a treat of apple and the boots get a spit polish.
Thanx for a getting me through the year, AKM. Happy New Year to all.
Yesterday my five year old granddaughter accompanied me on my rounds of Meals on Wheels. She enjoys seeing the people and where they live, and they, of course, enjoy interacting with a child. On the way to one house I explained that the man was a veteran of two wars, WWII and Korea. She asked, “What’s a war?” This is a kid who learned to read at age 4, knows a lot about childbirth and pregnancy, and is learning Chinese as well as English in an immersion program. I think I was more flustered than I would have been at, “Where do babies come from?” I mumbled something about countries not getting along and shooting at each other and how it shouldn’t be but it.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone on our planet had to ask, “What’s a war?”
The absolute fabulous thing about Brian is that he seems to come in all sorts of different sizes and shapes. (we had moose socks this year too!)
I’m really enjoying the pics that are already going on up on the forum and can’t wait to see what else shows up!
There will be a follow up post on I Heart Mudflats. Be sure to say where you saw Brian, New York, Ireland!, Canada, Australia? Who knows. Hanging in a kitchen or out on the town. Kissing kittens and frolicking with puppies??? Oh my!
To all my dear friends here on the flats I wish you a Very Happy New Year! It’s going to be an exciting 2010!
AKM, can’t thank you enough for providing such a wonderful, warm and toasty home for all us mudpuppies.
Now really have to get ready to head out for the night. Brian and Brenda (his lovely spouse) are already dressed and urging me to hurry up. LOL
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!
Can it possibly be a mere 10 years ago that everyone was filling their gas tanks, laying in a week’s-worth of groceries, withdrawing bunches of cash from their bank accounts, and backing up all the information on their computers in anticipation (dread?) of Y2K? My, my, my…how time flies!
Happy New Year to all the Puppies — the lurkers, contributors, and admin-types — for all the fun this past year, and a BIG {{{{{hug}}}}} to AKM for making this site so spectacularly wonderful. What a privilege – and how unfailingly and up-liftingly informative – it is to visit daily!
May you each have much contentment, joy, and friendship throughout the New Year, and may you and yours all be most richly blessed with innumerable and full kindnesses of the heart. beth.
Please insert “is” at the end of my first paragraph.
Can not remember if I wrote the good news about being Cancer FREE! Turns out it was all a problem with my liver and contrasting dyes.
Slight cirrhosis from the Hepatitis C I’ve had for 35 years. Went to the doc about that and was freaking out because they didn’t tell me that I was in GREAT SHAPE for everything I’ve had. Now I know.
So the Pain (not Palin) I’ve had has to do with being sick with Gall Bladder problems and then having four biopsies.
Just MRI’s and blood tests every 6 months.
YOO HOO!
2010 here I come!
Now THIS story will make you smile…. and chuckle.
The Tea-Bagger Partiers have not even had their first convention yet and they are starting to get angry…. at each other. The say the Corporate entities within the GOP have hijacked them and their message.
Happy New Year !!!… Tea-Baggers…
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“Would a true Tea Party patriot drop nearly $1,600 in donor money for a small meal at a fancy steakhouse? Robin Stublen says no, and he’s mad as hell about the profligate expenditures of a GOP political organization that has glommed on to his grassroots movement.”
{ Hmmm… how much would it have cost…. for just a cup-of-tea there ?}
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/30/tea-partiers-decry-the-hi_n_407388.html
Fantastic photo !
Here is a site that shows the Apollo landing sites; you can match them up with the photo above.
http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~durda/Apollo/landing_sites.html
And here is a site with recent photos from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, showing the actual descent stages on the moon, along with paths of footprints left in the lunar soil by Apollo 12.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2009/07/17/apollo-landing-sites-imaged-by-lro/
Another Virgo here – I used to be more organized at work also, but since I don’t work anymore, I’m just a mess! Since I was born 6 weeks early, I think I have lots of Libra in me also – I can lose my own argument with myself which is pretty depressing sometimes. Sounds as if I don’t have a strong opinion – it’s just that I can see all sides of an argument and that leaves me with too many opinions sometimes
Happy New Year to all and thanks for the wonderful time in 2009. Twenty-ten should be fun for all, too, also.
We will miss the blue moon tonight due to rain, rain, and more rain. Our weather is back to normal Western Washington wetness.
Enjoy tonight and be safe!
Photo’s from this morning of the blue moon over Anchorage as the lunar eclipse takes hold, the sun rises and the moon sets on the year! http://www.professionaladventurer.com/2009/12/blue-moon-with-a-partial-lunar-eclipse-on-the-last-day-of-the-decade.html
I am sure none of you wll need this, but just in case, here are some hangover cures
Sleep. Rest is your best friend at this point to give your body a recover. It is best to stay in bed so call in to work if you have to, tell them you have the stomach flu. You will sound so horrible on the phone they may believe you (unless they saw you at the bar, not a good idea then).
Replenish your body with fruit juice and water.
Avoid caffeine. A weak cup of coffee may be okay but a lot of caffeine will continue to dehydrate you, the opposite of what you want right now.
Drink orange juice for Vitamin C.
Drink a sports drink like Gatorade or Powerade.
Eat mineral rich food like pickles or canned fish.
In Poland, drinking pickle juice is a common remedy.
Drink a Bloody Mary. While the popular phrase “hair of the dog that bit you” may sound logical with a shot of whiskey left in the bottle next to your bed, it’s only temporary. Try a Bloody Mary instead, while your blood is dealing with the new alcohol it is ignoring the old and in the mean time tomato juice and celery are full of vitamins. If you drank the last of the vodka make a Virgin Mary. Another spicy morning after drink option is Hair of the Dog, in which gin and hot sauce are sure to bite your hangover back.
Take a shower, switching between cold and hot water.
And if your hangover is really bad, and all else fails..
In Ireland it was said that the cure for a hangover is to bury the ailing person up to the neck in moist river sand.
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND A WONDERFUL, HEALTHY, WEALTHY 2010 TO ALL!
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Newfoundland Dogs Rule Says:
December 31st, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Can not remember if I wrote the good news about being Cancer FREE! Turns out it was all a problem with my liver and contrasting dyes………………………………..
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that is AMAZING news!!! i am delighted for you. what a blessing you have received. just in time for a new decade.
to all the special people i have met on Mudflats:
i wish you a happy and healthy NEW YEAR and new decade full of fun and adventure.
AKM …thank you.
(((Newfoundland Dogs Rule))) Now for sure it will be a Happy New Year!!
Picked this up over at palingates.blogspot.com. Warning do NOT have liquids handy while reading this – there will be spontaneous snorting on monitors and keyboards! (h/t to Mrs. Tarquin Biscuitbarrel)
http://www.rumproast.com/index.php/site/comments/palin_family_new_year_newsletter/
Ok….since I very seldom respond on any blogs, I have to vent my frustration on this blog….becasue it’s basically the only one that I chime in on. I think that statement makes sense? If not, oh well! But I do wish Gryphen would take down his latest post. It truly does make my blood boil and it’s terribly degrading. I have never found anything nice to say out our Queen Quitter her ilk and her followers, they so disgusts me. Our President deserves so much more respect and dignity. What in the hell is wrong with these people. Just because he is a man of color they feel it’s within their right to be such fricken idiots?! I am sick about how creepy and small minded some of our own citizens are in our country. This woman spreads hate, fear and complete contempt towards our President. They all make me FRicken sick! I am so mad.
To all you lapsed Virgos out there, this Leo has found the answer to organizing when you can’t afford a professional. Find a friend with borderline OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), invite her over, enlist her help to get your life in order and then do exactly what she sez! My problem was that the task was so daunting that I gave up. Now that everything is in order, I find it easy to take 5 minutes to keep it that way.
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Newfoundland Dogs Rule, what a wonderful way to start a new year. I am so very happy for you. Thanks for sharing the great news. Happy New Year, everyone, I can’t think of a better group to have spent 2009 with.
This song came to mind as I thought of how much this site has meant for so many of us… Happy New Year all….
“You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from “Toy Story” – http://tinyurl.com/h4mlv
Paula,
In Ireland it was said that the cure for a hangover is to bury the ailing person up to the neck in moist river sand.
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Spitting sand out of my mouth!
Newfoundland Dogs Rule……….what great news. Virtual hugs.
Good cures Paula. Here is the best one that I have even done – breathe pure oxygen.
As a volunteer firefighter, myself and all my comrades can attest to this. After a night on the town, a few minutes with a respirator mask on and breathing oxygen and the hangover is almost immediately gone.
Now, obviously, not everyone has access to an oxygen tank on New Year’s Day, but if there is any way you can get access, try this – guaranteed to work.
Women Who Run With the Wolves (I have that book, BTW):
That such a photoshopped horror was put out to the ether just shows that contrary to what we’ve heard, racism is still alive and well in the US and practiced by that subset we’ve all come to abhor. They should be exposed for what they are. And I hope that person is punished appropriately for using a state computer to spew racism.
Meanwhile, hope everyone here has a great New Year and we can achieve peace. : )
Happy New Year to all the Mudpuppies from another non-typical Virgo. We sure seem to have a lot of Virgo’s here at the flats.
There will a PARTY in the treehouse (chat) tonight, starting around 10, everyone is invited to come and join the fun. And just to kick things off a little early…Celebration by Kool and the Gang:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeTgx_pj6m8
It’s raining and cloudy here…so even tho there is a blue moon up there somewhere, I won’t be able to see it, so thanks AKM for sharing Alaska’s with me.
HAPPY NEW YEAR to all mudpups, but especially to AKM. And to, Snoskred, who is already living in 2010. Thanks to both of you for all the hard work.
Newfoundland Dogs Rule – Congratulations to you, what good news, And a wonderful New Year to all Mudpuppies. Won’t see Blue Moon here. Overcast, raining and supposed to ice.
I’d like to invite you all to stop by my blog and read my resolutions. The list is far too long for this space
(click my name)
Happy New Year, Mudpups. So glad to know you all. Thanks for getting me through the past 6 months of hell. Things are bound to get better!!!
Peace.
I am also a Virgo. German also , too.
Happy New Year !! Pups !!
and hey to you bubbles
Virgos Rule! <3
And Happy New Year to AKM & Mudpups everywhere!
Ripley, those were great! Thanks for the LOLs about oh-so-human mistakes! Have a great New Year.
I’ve somehow misplaced my Brian. It isn’t easy to misplace a moose, but damn, I’m GOOD at what I do!
Happy New Year to AKM and all Mudpuppies and their ilk! When I visit the forums or read a thread I always feel I’m with kindred souls. Thanks so much for the warm feeling of kinship. I’d so love to sit and have an adult beverage with all of you – the laughter and the “Oh, I KNOW what you mean!”s would be delightful.
Newfies Rule—YAY!!!!!
Thanks all for the virtual hugs and good wishes.
Heartfelt thanks to AKM and ALL the behind the scenes volunteers and moderators that contribute their time and energy for free to keep the blog running smoothly.
The ” Mudflats Community ” plays the role of a big Community Organizer.
And we all know, based on the past, how important and effective a community organizer can be in effecting ‘ change ‘.
A Special Thanks also goes out to AKM’s immediate Family for being so supportive and allowing her the time and support to put into this Blog ( and sharing Her with us ) so that we may all have a second Home here as well.
And speaking of ‘ sharing ‘…a beautiful voice in a song, sharing a special message that we might think about as we start a New Year….
…. just ” Imagine .”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWzAnh7mzeo
19 year old still in a snot about not being allowed to travel. I went into the kitchen this morning and he had opened every cupboard door, every drawer, the fridge (again) and the dishwasher. I couldn’t stop laughing….I closed them all and didn’t say a word.
He walked out around six this evening. Said he’d be back in two weeks! Two hours later he arrives back with the girlfriend.
How many left-handed Virgos? I fit both categories.
No blue moon in NE Va either, clouds freezing rain.
Have a great New Years’ even and day and may the Great Moose be with you.
it’s 5:45 in Kansas, the sun just set and the moon’s not yet visible from my house. How on earth is it already up in Alaska? Ehhh? Are we turning the other way now??
Looks like the blogger at C4P doesn’t understand English. Twice (not once, but twice) he misused “allegedly” (see quotes below). Is he trying to play like he’s a real journalist by using a reporter’s jargon, but having trouble figuring out the lingo? I hate to tell him but both of those sources DID, in fact, write those reports.
“Update: ABC is allegedly reporting that Rush is in ‘stable condition.’”
“Update #2: KITV has allegedly confirmed that Rush will not be released this evening.”
A big old Thank You AKM…Happy New Year all of you guys and gals..
Best place in the world to be ..Be careful out there tonight..
Me, i’m staying in by my fireplace, with Hubby and 3critters..Will watch all te excitement on teevee..Will have a little toddy to toast the new yr…
“One additional thing you may not know is that Brian makes conservative bloggers NUTS. It’s true. You can’t believe how many of them talk about our shaggy friend and how it’s impossible for anyone to have a sense of fun and and a brain at the same time. Or so they believe.’
I am continually amazed at the number of people who have no real sense of humor. I love to make small ironic comments about what ever situations may come my way. Just a second or two to smile and then move on. Probably 50% or more of the people I work with are offended or actually angry when I do that. Apparently, the concept of gaining a laugh or smile from something that is otherwise serious is beyond their ability to stand outside a situation and see some kind of sillyness,and stand inside it and be serious, at the same time.
Maybe that is just another difference in conservatives and liberals. Brian can be a real moose who brings joy when he is seen and can be a greater concept that we as group have bestowed on a Moose we will never physically see. Literalist – conservatives probably can’t do that. Again living in two mental realities and knowing the difference between the real and the created.
Mirage18 -
Right-handed here.
I feel your pain about the teenage snit, Irishgirl. Mine has been in a huge huff lately because I refuse to allow some “friend” he met on the internet stay at the house. Why should I allow some stranger no one has ever met stay here? So, the individual – an adult! – is staying at a motel and despite my instructions to not go to the motel, he went there. Using a vehicle which he is not allowed to use when the weather is bad. So guess how the weather is right now? Right. Freezing rain. I just hope he gets home in one piece. But it’s going to be on hell of a cold day in hades before he gets his driving privileges back.
What was the excitement at Mudflats Central last night?? I miss all the fun.
Happy New Year to ya’alls.
It is the New Year here in Ireland!!!
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! ! !
Click here: http://www.icq.com/img/friendship/static/card_16961_rs.swf
Mirage 18 – hubby is left handed, forced as a child to write etc. with right hand. Father let him use left, certain things he can only do with one or the other. His handwriting is illegible (o:
Haven’t even read most comments so Happy New Year and back in a bit!
# 69 Irishgirl Says:
December 31st, 2009 at 3:16 PM
It is the New Year here in Ireland!!!
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This one is just for You… Irishgirl….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4CzcYBI164
((((Irishgirl)))) Happy New Year! Cheers “clink” My Irish friend here is going through similar situation w/her teen son, glad mine are grown and survived the stinker stage (o:
Irishgirl -
First and foremost , HAPPY NEW YEAR !!
Now , if available , get a copy of “Endless Summer” , the quintessential surf flick. Your son will go bonkers.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x32c0k_endless-summer-trailer-1966_shortfilms
Happy New Year Mudpuppies! Stay safe cuz we’ve got hell to raise over the coming year! Lots to do!!!
Ps. Snoskred – I can’t remember my password to the Forums. HELP!!!
Irish–how funny! He’ll get over it; we all do eventually. Were there any accidents so you could prove to him that you made the right call?
That moon is truly awesome this week.
Moose Pucky wishes Brian a happy, happy New Year.
Cheers, Brian.
12 BigPete Says:
New Year’s resolution: not referring to previous decade as the “aughts”.
Considering most of it was taken up by a cheated in POTUS, and invading two innocent countries, and ruining the economy I would have though the “naughts” would be more appropriate. The “Thou Shalt Naught…repeat just about anything our government and public figures have done for the last 10 years.
overthemoon–the moon was visible here this morning. I’m pretty sure it’s not back up yet, though it prob. will be soon.
Here’s a toast to Peace & Truth! And a hope that very soon I get to sing: London Bridges falling down, falling down…. Take the key and lock her up, lock her up …
You’ll never find truth coming from the lips of s’error.
What’s so funny ’bout peace love and understanding, oh oh oh… just clickie my name.
Happy New Year to AKM, to all who visit here, and to Brian and his extended family all over the world!! For those of you who are able to see the Blue Moon tonight, soak it in for all of us who will not be able to.
Happy New Years Mudflats!! Thank you for being such a wonderful place to visit everyday!
Greytdog Δ Says:
Stay safe cuz we’ve got hell to raise over the coming year! Lots to do!!!
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True !!
A lot was accomplished this last year , BUT , there is still a long road ahead.
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Carlos Santana -
You can understand everything’s to share. Let your spirit dance brothers
everywhere. Let your head be free. Turn the wisdom key
Find it naturally, see you’re lucky to be
Sing it loud
It’s time for you to all get down
Yeah do it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DNDOc1y4wk
Soaking it up for you, right now. Those where it is clear and there is snow on the ground are in for a real treat at midnight. No snow here, but a beautiful sunset while I get gas into the car.
Hello and Happy New Year from Northern CA, where I am visiting sis, womanwithsardinecan. I wouldn’t be alive if it weren’t for AKM (sorry for repeating this from not long ago), and my dogs and hubby thank AKM, too for keeping me sane so I don’t eat my tires. I live far enough out of town that eating all the vehicle tires would definitely create a hardship on the household.
Snitty Quitty Twitty has brought a great group of folks together – I’ll bet she just hates that! Along the lines of Marnie’s post – I find it quite funny that rightie whack jobs wouldn’t know humor if it went up their nose and camped there. Let them eat black, tasteless cake, too!
Thanks for the snorts and laughs, mudpuppies. Keep ‘em coming!
Happy New Year!
I can’t tell y’all how glad I am to see the a$$end of 2009!
I can tell y’all how d@mn grateful I am to how found this oasis.
Thank you, AKM.
Thank you, fellow pups.
If mud can be clean, it’s cleanest here.
Oops!
‘have’ found……………
celebrating here.
After much trial and error, I finally got a pic up (or 3) over at the Forum thread:
http://www.themudflats.net/forum/index.php/topic,9096.0.html
My Brian, the well-dressed moose, sends his Cheers! to all Mudpups & AKM in the New Year. Onward!
Hello and Happy New Year’s Eve to the Mudflats & Mudpups!!
I open my computer, start reading, and of course, follow directions. Go outside to see the moon (dragging family along with me – AKM you have power!!!) And it is rising in the east, huge and beautiful! Thank you!
I bought a “niiiiice” bottle of champagne for tonight, and am thinking of opening it already. It’s not even 6 p.m., wonder how long I’ll last?
I went out and asked for a couple of things from the Blue Moon… Peace, Love and Justice. All for ME!! Boy Howdy, do I hope it works!!
Seagull Junker Palin, I say go ahead and open it.
I deliberated over my own New Year’s champagne purchase and realized I want it NOW at 6. I’m too old to wait till midnight.
I’m single and planning to down the whole bottle. Hope I don’t get on here later this eve and embarass myself! HAPPY(er) NEW YEAR to all.
Well… the ‘ Twit’ has been silent for a few days…But she just got one last one in before the New Year. ( Just saw this posted on Bree Palin’s sidebar )
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“# Happy New Year’s Eve!We’ll ring it in on snowmachines under an amazing,beautiful full red moon.Nothing but the best to you in 2010.God bless 9 minutes ago”
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Uhhhh… scratching my head….
All day everybody has been talking about a historic ‘ blue moon ‘ tonight…
Why does SHE think Her’s is ‘ red ‘…?
Happy New Year to all the mudpuppies everywhere!
The moon is beautiful and bright here in FL…I will enjoy it here in my jammies, with some wine and the teevee.
honestyinGov: maybe she’s been into the champagne earlier….like all day? Who know, with her!
‘Red’ moon? Maybe she thinks it’s Russian?
WE were there FIRST, $arah!
A red moon would imply that her moon was obscured by smog, probably caused by her pants being on fire all the time. What a jerk that she even said that instead of Blue Moon.
One of the dudes on the Deadliest Catch arrested for bank robbery.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/31/joshua-tel-warner-bank-ro_n_408813.html
nswfm – HAHAHAHA.
Happy New Year to all the Mudpups here!
It was sunny and cold today in Kenai.
@ nswfm
lol…a Pants on Fire Moon! I love it. Add that to her Science and History vocabulary.
karen in oregon…please don’t worry about embarrassing yourself. we pups do it all the time. besides it is new years and you are among friends.
Oh S^*t !!
Major meth bust with Wasilla connection.
http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11754814
Folks… there is some weird stuff happening up there in AK tonight.
This was reported in a Palingates thread and even ties in to AKM’s airline story.
( It has a good ending… the pilot was OK.)
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“Husband of former state Sen. Lyda Green in small plane crash:
Wasilla man survives Willow plane crash
WILLOW — A 72-year-old Wasilla man survived a plane crash at the Willow airstrip on Thursday afternoon.”
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/matsu/story/1075124.html
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And the other story that Gryphen posted was about a meth drug bust in Wasilla….” 23 POUNDS ” of meth.
The pool hall, about a mile from ‘ somebody ‘ who lives in Wasilla.
Yup -I googled Shooters and it’s REAL close to Lake Lucille.
looking at a HUGE blue moon here in so california.
thinking good thoughts for mudpuppies everywhere…
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!
Sarah you idiot! It’s not the moon that’s red – it’s that stupid chenille bedspread you were wearing at the Sprout Center which took on a life of it’s own and grew up around your neck and over your Pinocchio’s nose that’s makin’ stuff look red! Or maybe your devil eyes…
TWIT!
Sprout Center? After only one glass of Pinot!
All of Wasilla is seein’ red right now………no party favors for the big night.
I still can’t see the moon )o: Overcast but very bright reflection from the snow so I know it is there.
Checking the links now (hubby is asleep and a poophead). DIL hurt us again, such is life – will keep caring and trying. Guess that is my resolution.
The beautiful blue full moon is up and over Juneau. What a sight!
Best to all the mudpups for a wonderful New Year! Irishgirl, I know you are already celebrating — we in Alaska will be joining you in a few hours!
Resolved for 2010: If it says Palin, I’m not reading it, unless it is an
indictment. Happy 2010 all.
@ Martha UYS
Hahaha…..eating tires…. and chenille bedspreads sported by the unjolly green midget at the Sprout Center. Exploring the boundaries of insanity (not unlike exploring a canker sore with one’s tongue).
Have another glass of Pinot, you funny mudpuppy!
Waving to womanwithsardinecan also, too.
Happy New Year AKM and everyone! It is a beautiful full moon in Arizona with clear skies and 44 degrees. Right now we have one and a half hours left in this very memorable year.
womanwithsardinecan is horizontal and waving in her sleep! She’s an early to bed type – shoulda coulda been a farmer!
Mother of womanwithsardinecan, alaska pi and me are making New Year’s hats out of last year’s calendars. It’s very fun and silly. Very little wine needed!
I recommend tuning in to PBS radio for the Capitol Steps New Year’s Eve special. It is rebroadcast at 9:00 a.m. on New Year’s Day.
Great stuff! (including Sarah and Levi).
I’m not able to see the Blue Moon this evening, but I’m feeling it with this song by Ella!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4218R-gBmts
Mudpups
Love & Peace,
Healing the Hearts of Humanity 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oNs_rp7mgU
Thank you scout for that link. It is powerful and beautifully amazing. Peace and Love to you.
@Martha Unalaska Yard Sign…..you girl are on a roll tonight! Must be the full moon. Here in S.E. Alaska it is a bright one. I am still irritated at the post by Gryphen….only because I think it’s absolutely disgusting how some low level pond scums think? Happy New Year!!!
Happy New Year. So…. what was in the pkg (she says impatiently).
Enquiring minds would like to know when you will reveal the contents of your mystery letter AKM ?
Happy Belated New Year to Everyone! We had a moonstruck new year in Philadelphia, quite a backdrop to the fireworks over the water while people ice skated and toasted the New Year!
Good Fortune, Good Health, Good Friends for the New Year!