{"id":6847,"date":"2009-12-30T05:20:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T10:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=6847"},"modified":"2014-12-28T06:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T11:05:49","slug":"happy-new-years-eve-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-new-years-eve-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year&#8217;s Eve Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a productive day.\u00a0 After <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=6755\" target=\"_blank\">the Undercarriage Incident<\/a> of last week, I took my car to Brian at B &amp; B Automotive, referred by my pal Bo Frazer who also has a Toyota Prius.\u00a0 It was neat seeing the car up on the rack, checking out what all was underneath.\u00a0 It was easy to see how the undercarriage part fit together and how it had become free.\u00a0 So Brian ordered the replacement part from Toyota and he can replace it for me next week.\u00a0 I&#8217;d spoken to Brian first thing in the morning and he told me to stop by about 5pm and see if he had a lift free.\u00a0 My spidey sense alerted me at 3:30 to get in the car and drive over there an hour early.\u00a0 As I arrived, Brian said it was good timing, that he just now got a lift available.\u00a0 I love it when I listen.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->After my phone call to Brian, I went to the post office to mail some stacks of magazines off, then to WalMart.\u00a0 They had smoked turkey legs in the warmer where they keep the rotiserre chickens near the checkout counters, so I bought one.\u00a0 They only have them during holiday time.\u00a0 I posted on Facebook that it was so big I think it was really a pterodactyl leg.<\/p>\n<p>I drove home about 6pm and saw the almost full moon rising high in the east sky.\u00a0 I parked and came inside and changed into my sweats since the air was pretty chill &#8211; about 55 degrees at sundown.\u00a0 I took a quick walk around the property to make my nightly rounds.\u00a0 I like to see if the armadillos have uprooted any more animal bones, they nose around all night long.\u00a0 Remember New Year&#8217;s Eve is full moon and a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blue_moon\" target=\"_blank\">blue moon<\/a> (a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skyandtelescope.com\/observing\/objects\/moon\/3304131.html\" target=\"_blank\">real <\/a>blue moon), at that.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m getting ready for my <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=6779\" target=\"_blank\">burning bowl ceremony<\/a> and I&#8217;m going to eat light today and tomorrow to make up in advance for any overindulging I might do during New Year&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I&#8217;d thought of that 30 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Happy <em>New Year&#8217;s Eve<\/em> Eve.<\/p>\n<div id=\"s-share-buttons\" class=\"horizontal-w-c-circular s-share-w-c\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-new-years-eve-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to Facebook\" class=\"s3-facebook hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Happy New Year&#8217;s Eve Eve&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-new-years-eve-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Twitter\" class=\"s3-twitter hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-new-years-eve-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\"  title=\"Share to Google Plus\" class=\"s3-google-plus hint--top\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/shareArticle?mini=true&url=http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-new-years-eve-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share to LinkedIn\" class=\"s3-linkedin hint--top\"><\/a><div class=\"pinit-btn-div\"><a href=\"\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/button\/\" data-pin-do=\"buttonBookmark\"  data-pin-color=\"red\" title=\"Share to Pinterest\" class=\"s3-pinterest hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" async defer src=\"\/\/assets.pinterest.com\/js\/pinit.js\"><\/script><a href=\"mailto:?Subject=Happy%20New%20Year&#8217;s%20Eve%20Eve&Body=Here%20is%20the%20link%20to%20the%20article:%20http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/happy-new-years-eve-eve\/\" title=\"Email this article\" class=\"s3-email hint--top\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was a productive day.\u00a0 After the Undercarriage Incident of last week, I took my car to Brian at B &amp; B Automotive, referred by my pal Bo Frazer who also has a Toyota Prius.\u00a0 It was neat seeing the car up on the rack, checking out what all was underneath.\u00a0 It was easy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39134,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6847\/revisions\/39134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}