Three-Thing Thursday

Once again we find ourselves saying hello to Three-Thing Thursday, where I share three random things and you share three things. Whatever you want, anything at all.

This particular Thursday arrives boisterously--sporting a black tie and raising a champagne glass--because it's New Year's Eve.

Under my roof, New Year's Eve generally arrives with some mismatched pajamas, a pony tail, reading glasses and late-night TV accompanied by stale popcorn. Except when I was in my twenties. Oh, the stories.

Let's start with my three things, only because we must.

1. New Year's Eve is different from every other night in that there is a worldwide, legitimate and encouraged excuse other than blogging, which technically isn't legitimate or encouraged but is certainly an excuse to stay up past midnight.

2. Last night, on the dark ride home from work, there were four combines harvesting soybeans in the crater field on the right as you descend the hill into the crater from James Store/Gloucester into Mathews. Thanks to all the rain and wet soil, many fields have gone to waste, unharvested. Combines working by spotlight are not unusual, but four of them working together in the same field after dark is. That's teamwork (in hard times and without the benefit of daylight) at its best.

3a.My dear friend from high school who owned the brown Pinto and drove me to the Old Mill Skating Rink every Friday, Ms. Seabreeze, called me out of the blue. It's always wonderful talking to her. She's newly engaged to the most wonderful man in the world who doesn't take her for granted a single minute and makes her very, very happy. This all makes me very, very happy.

3b. Speaking of "out of the blue," there is a blue moon tonight. How many times have we said, "CBW is succinct once in a blue moon"? In other words, a blue moon never happens is a rare occurrence.

Country Girl Kate and her Husband alerted me to this blue moon.

My trusty Wikipedia informs me this is an extra full moon that ordinarily wouldn't occur in the year (as opposed to a blue one that would only appear rarely--in this case never). Wikipedia probably said more, but I can't remember and we're taking the needle off this record and storing the album for another day before there is a 3c which really equals 5. And we're not talking algebra because I don't speak that language.

Now it's your turn. Share three things, share fifty-three things, the sky's the limit.

If you can't think of anything tell me about your plans for New Year's Eve or about a memorable New Year's Eve in the past.

Most of all, I wish you happiness, hope and peace in this new year coming.