We celebrated the New Year with friends at Jean's place (aka "the party palace"). We picked up Jan and Steve, and Hardy and Judy picked up John and Sandy for the trip to Pharr South. When we arrived, we found G.W. and David already there, and it was clear that G.W. had already started to party. He was quite animated. He had had an early taste of the limoncello Jean made using lemons from our tree and a recipe recommended by Terri.
We had a great time, as usual, with everyone contributing food and good cheer to the festivities. After dinner, we all had a small glass of the limoncello as a "digestif" before heading to the dessert bar. Pat made bread pudding with caramel sauce and one of her special sugar free pies. Jean decided to try making a sugar free lemon meringue pie. I brought along some Christmas candy. All yummy.
We played Tripoley at one table and Michigan Rummy at another. All was for fun, since all the pennies were returned to their wrappers and to John and Sandy, who brought them and the games. We wrapped up the games just before 11:00 p.m., when we observed the east coast dropping of the ball in Times Square and wished all and sundry a happy 2014.
One the way home we saw lots of fireworks sparkling in the air, and the fireworks stands were still doing business. As we pulled into our driveway, the fireworks exploded around us: it was midnight and the beginning of 2014 in the central time zone.
Earlier today we went to Tractor Supply and bought a new 40 lb. propane tank. We stopped by Pony Express and had it filled. Luckily one of the other customers loaded the tank in the truck bed. When we got home, one of the neighbors unloaded the tank and put it in our propane slide. We are looking into the possibility of getting a 100 lb. or larger tank. We walked around the neighborhood checking out other people's tanks, most of which we had never noticed before.
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