Happy New Year

[imref]

Happy new year to everyone, and thanks to the chief for providing this hangout.  Here’s to a pennant in 2019!!

[mitlen]

Happy new year to everyone, and thanks to the chief for providing this hangout.  Here’s to a pennant in 2019!!

Indeed.   

Happy New Year  !!

[skippy1999]

be safe tonight peeps!

[wj73]

Skippy - love the new avatar!  Who is the pupper?

[skippy1999]

Skippy - love the new avatar!  Who is the pupper?

My oldest doggie, Bryant. He’s very excited for the National Championshio Game and says “Roll Tide”

[Ali the Baseball Cat]

 

[bluestreak]

I had to board my poor doggie because she hates the fireworks. She’s be afraid to go outside for days if she had stayed here tonight. She is a country dog that hates living in the city.

[imref]

Prosecco is the perfect New Year’s Eve drink

[skippy1999]

I had to board my poor doggie because she hates the fireworks. She’s be afraid to go outside for days if she had stayed here tonight. She is a country dog that hates living in the city.

Bryant had to take a doggie downer to get through the fireworks tonight

[JCA-CrystalCity]

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/puppy-uppers-doggie-downers/3004208

There's almost always a good SNL skit for everything.

[skippy1999]

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/puppy-uppers-doggie-downers/3004208

There's almost always a good SNL skit for everything.

Have that in mind every time he has to take one (4th of July and New Years are not his fave days)

[Nick the Pig]

Dogs tend to hate 7/4 and 1/1 !

Happy New Years, everyone.

[wj73]

Years ago we had a little dachshund-beagle named Gypsy who was a bit on the plump side. Every time there was thunder or fireworks, she’d somehow manage to wedge that fat little body between the back of the toilet and the wall. You’d walk in the bathroom and there she was, peeping from the back of the toilet, wide-eyed and shaking. Gypsy was fearless about everything else, but thunder and fireworks unhinged her. She lived to be 20 but it still wasn’t long enough. 

[1995hoo]

Prosecco is the perfect New Year’s Eve drink

For us it was a bottle of Veuve Clicquot my brother-in-law and his wife gave us last week as a Christmas present.

[Nick the Pig]

She lived to be 20

Nice !

[JCA-CrystalCity]

uh, I saved my drinking for the Bruins Blackhawks game.  Marchand!!!!!!!!

[skippy1999]

Years ago we had a little dachshund-beagle named Gypsy who was a bit on the plump side. Every time there was thunder or fireworks, she’d somehow manage to wedge that fat little body between the back of the toilet and the wall. You’d walk in the bathroom and there she was, peeping from the back of the toilet, wide-eyed and shaking. Gypsy was fearless about everything else, but thunder and fireworks unhinged her. She lived to be 20 but it still wasn’t long enough. 

It’s never long enough 

[OldChelsea]

A lot of baseball anniversaries coming in 2019:

150th - First professional baseball game (Cincinnati Red Legs vs New York Nine)
100th - The 'Black Sox' World Series
75th - St Louis Browns' only AL pennant (creating the only all-St-Louis World Series)
50th - First seasons for Expos (now Nats), Padres, Pilots (now Brewers) and Royals
25th - The Championship That Never Was: Expos have best record in majors but strike wipes this out
10th - A Nationals season to truly forget

And a couple of personal anniversaries: this coming August it will be 50 years since my first plane trip (Sab Francisco to Honolulu on the late lamented Pan Am) - which I plan to celebrate with much travel abroad all year long - and next month I raise multiple Heinekens to toast 40 years of freedom from driving.

[Mathguy]

Thanks Chelsea - that's a great list

[Panther Modern]

A little late on this, but Happy New Year to you all!

[1995hoo]

… and next month I raise multiple Heinekens to toast 40 years of freedom from driving.

All a matter of personal preference, but to me that wouldn’t be something to celebrate because I like to drive (just drove 2533 miles during the last two weeks of 2018 for our Christmas trip to southern Florida).