Well we carried out our wacko plan. More precisely, I helped the children carry out their wacko plan. We rang in the New Year twice.
For anyone who hasn't read the blog since the very beginning, we live very close to the North Dakota line. As it turns out, we live more than very close, we live ON the North Dakota line. While Dad was here he looked up the property description at the county office, and found that the rear of our property directly abuts our neighboring state.
Also for anyone who hasn't read the blog since the very beginning, the children were planning to walk across the line into 2010. Are you kidding? Almost midnight and how many bazillion degrees below zero? In all honesty, during the summertime I didn't see the flaw in walking, either. But sleepy, warm, snuggled in bed at 10:30 pm, the faults were glaring.
So we drove over to the gas pumps, just across the line, and sat there. Devon didn't come, being tired and oh yes, frostbitten (doing superbly, by the way - can't even tell it happened), Jack wasn't insane, so it was just Damon, Tiggy, and me. We sat there for several minutes, till our clock read several minutes after 11 MST, just to be sure, wished each other a happy new year, and drove back into 2009.
The little gravel road that marks our rear property line has the state line running right down the middle of it. So, if you can believe it, we were driving along in both 2009 AND 2010!!! I was in the old year, and the kids were in the new. The car was just confused.
An hour later, the children rang in the new year...again. I snored softly.
Happy New Year!
Until the next adventure,
Noni Beth
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Hmmm...judging from your time line, you certainly are fast with your posting, Noni!
ReplyDeleteExcept for when it comes to posting updates! I believe your mother and your sister are having severe withdrawals from your not posting! LOL!
Oh, I know what happened!!!! It will all make perfect sense once I explain it.
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I got back from ND, and while it was still 2009 here, I started the post and saved it. A little peculiarity of blogspot is that whenever you save a post, even if you come back to it much later, it still posts it at the time you first saved it.
So that's how I was able to post on New Year's Eve even when the blog was written several days later.