We’re being very, very quiet here for the passing of 2007. It’s just Mom and my brother and me. We had quite the domestic day. In the morning we did all the shopping for groceries in the next village over and joked with the butcher. In the afternoon, I put on a stew for tomorrow, then dyed some recycled sweater wool in food coloring dye, then prepared the upside down apple pie for the evening meal.

I have enjoyed quiet New Year’s Eves several years running — big parties in the streets are not my type, I have a deep phobia of the sudden popping noises of firecrackers — but this one might take the cake with its exceptional calm.

We were done eating our wonderful roast duck meal at about 9.30, and an hour later the pie had been gleefully consumed, too. Mom dozed in front of the TV while me and my brother puttered each at our laptop for a while.. It’s now just gone over into 2008 and Mom’s in bed already!

I might follow soon; I got up after a mere 5 hours of sleep last night. I only wanted to post this recipe I improvised for my stew, because I think tomorrow it’ll be the yummiest start of the year, along with the New Year Concert of Vienna.
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