DECEMBER 31ST 2012 MONDAY

WELL HERE WE ARE...the final day of 2012 and none too soon for many people...it's been a pretty shocking year for many...it's also the 7th day of Christmas where "my True love sent to me "Seven Swans a swimming" was the gift and it looks like the 7 swans will not be swimming at Springwater Provincial park as it is closing as we know it. "the 12 days of Christmas" song is a very old song...from the 2nd half of the 1700's apparently. If you have some time today you may want to Google if just to see the history of the Ditty as each item has quite a history in the religious world. Tonight is First Night, a non-alcoholic alternative New Year's Eve celebration of the arts, planned tonight in over 140 U.S. and Canadian cities. The first First Night in 1976 was in Boston....Barrie of course will continue it's NYE outdoor celebration tradition and this year will feature the TREWS (no relation to me despite the same spelling). There is no one in the group named TREW they got their name from TREWSERS...SCOTTISH for Trousers. The also happen to be my elder daughters favourite group. I don't know of any big ball dropping in Orr Lake unless its big snow flakes falling to the ground. IN 1929 Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadian GUYS played their theme song, "Auld Lang Syne," to usher in the new year at New York City's Hotel Roosevelt Grill, the beginning of a tradition. It means "old long since" or days gone by. 1907 was the year the big ball started dropping in the Big Apple (except a few years during the war) in 1947 Movie co-stars Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were married on horseback....and they were saddled with each other for till their deaths. In 1970 Paul McCartney filed a suit to dissolve the Beatles. Exactly, one year later, the group officially dissolved. In a direct swipe at the NRA IN THE USA... People DON'T GO out drinking tonight like THEY used to. It's not safe anymore to be out drunk on the town. When you're drunk, you just can't shoot straight. Today is New Year's Eve, the day to watch out for the party animals, especially the ones driving. Let's all start the new year right -- "ALIVE"...AS YOU PARTY OR SNORE IN THE NEW YEAR! CHEERS and remember A sunrise is God telling the world to lighten up."