BYC Café

[scottcaddy]

It is a wet high 40's (8.8°C) morning here, and looks to be wet and cool all day.

I do hope that everybody is having a good New Years morning.
Coffee is ready and my day is well begun.
Enjoy the first day!
Scott

 

[Mtn Margie]

Morning! Happy New Year! Coffee

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DS$ got 5th. He is very happy too....

 

[scottcaddy]

Morning Margie,

Good to hear that DS$ is still having fun and doing well.
Enjoy your day!
Scott

 

[Bunnylady]

Happy New Year, y'all. *yawn*

Yay, DS$!

Sounded like the 1812 Overture around here most of the evening; quite a few neighbors partyin' apparently (including the local coyote pack!). Gray and cloudy, but no rain yet . . . have a feelin' that's gonna change in the next couple of days.

I think I need another cup of coffee.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, and Happy New Year, Café.

 

[scottcaddy]

Good 1st Morning Bunny and Sir Sour,

Bunny, I thought that you lived in the more civilized part of our fine state, we had several competing versions of 1812 going on for a bit.
Gave the horses a reason to practice their sliding stops and high speed rollbacks.
Scott

 

[Bunnylady]

Scott, by "civilized," are you referring to the human neighbors, or the coyotes?

On the matter of fireworks, we're just a stone's throw from the border, so of course everybody has to run down to South Carolina to buy the kinds you can't legally acquire here. Hiss, flash, boom, ooooh, ahhhh; the police really only get involved if somebody gets hurt.

On the matter of the coyotes, they've been in the area for, oh, a good ten years or so. I haven't seen this particular pack, though I might have seen a couple of its members dead on the roads near here. I have heard them howling/yammering back in the woods behind our property on countless occasions, but last night, I heard them on our lot for the first time. Ironically, one of the owners of a property behind us likes to do some target practice back there, and several times we've had neighbors mistakenly report the gunfire to the police as being on our property (I haven't been able to ascertain whether it is still legal to shoot a gun outside in any parts of New Hanover County these days; one deputy seemed to think it wasn't legal anywhere). Lemmee tellya, if I'd had a shotgun last night, there would have been gunfire coming from my back porch, and I probably would have hit my target, too!

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

Good 1st Morning Bunny and Sir Sour,

Bunny, I thought that you lived in the more civilized part of our fine state, we had several competing versions of 1812 going on for a bit.
Gave the horses a reason to practice their sliding stops and high speed rollbacks.
Scott

Oy, so much fun, isn't it? My poor sister had 9 horses go through a fence last night courtesy of her neighbors' fireworks -- fortunately none were seriously injured, but it's the principal of the matter that always gets me.

Happy New Year, y'all. *yawn*

Yay, DS$!

Sounded like the 1812 Overture around here most of the evening; quite a few neighbors partyin' apparently (including the local coyote pack!). Gray and cloudy, but no rain yet . . . have a feelin' that's gonna change in the next couple of days.

I think I need another cup of coffee.

Oy - this was our first experience in the new house (we weren't here for 4th of July, not looking forward to it now) - NOT impressed -- tons of fireworks starting at dusk and going off randomly all the way to midnight (my dog has major anxiety issues with fireworks/gunshots) and then at midnight it was "pour out into the street to scream, do more fireworks and blow those stupid plastic horns" -- haven't had neighbors this close for years and had gotten kind of used to quiet celebrations. DH was oblivious - he was in a Nyquil coma that started at about 9:30, lucky guy.

Morning! Happy New Year! Coffee

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DS$ got 5th. He is very happy too....

Congrats to your DS! That's awesome!

 

[scottcaddy]

Good 1st Monday Morning to the Year of the Rooster!

It is a very wet & cool morning mid 50's (12.7°C) here and will stay that way for today and most of Tuesday.
I hope that everybody starts the 1st week off on a good note.
Coffee is Hot and ready to go.
Enjoy the day!
Scott

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Scott and Café.