This picture is the first picture that was on MaryAlice's camera on January 1st 2024. This next picture is the last one that MaryAlice took for 2024.
I am pretty happy to be able to do the "Bubbles Blog" for the last blog of this year. Usually I live in MaryAlice's car, and that means I have been on a lot of roads, and car ferries, and a few parking lots and a couple of drive-ins. This trip from Maine to Minnesota on the train (well a bus first) with stops in Chicago and then another train so that we are now in Vernon County Wisconsin has been my first not in the car trip!
So the first picture of this year was driving home from Presque Isle, where there had been a Pride Aroostook New Year's Eve Party. That was a fun way to start the year. The next picture is from a window in Marcia's dome home looking out to her long, down the hill driveway. There is no snow here, and there has been no sun either. Since getting to Minnesota there has been about 10 minutes of sun. So maybe there will be more sun when we get to the New Year. We will all need to find ways to shine and to let the light in.
We are staying in tonight Marcia has made a very good supper, it is in the oven now. We played Sheepshead, it is a card game that most people have had to have a Milwaukee connection to have learned how to play, it is a fun card that originated from the Bavarian area of Germany. It was lots of fun, and MaryAlice doesn't get to play it often because there is NO ONE in Maine that knows how to play the game. She invited everyone out to Maine and then they could help to teach people so MaryAlice can play Sheepshead.
We are having a very good time, I think we will take more pictures tomorrow. Today when we went out for a drive, MaryAlice kept on making sweet little noises of appreciation for this amazing driftless land. This part of Wisconsin is unglaciated, and it is the sacred land of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
This is where MaryAlice lived as a young woman, it is where her daughter was born. It is a good place to bring in the New Year.
I hope that everyone is somewhere that they want to be as we reflect on the past year and store up some goodness as we move into this New Year.
Happy New Year from Bubbles and MaryAlice says a Big Happy New Year too!
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