Steve Mills and his wife have one daughter. They previously owned two coffee/ice cream shops, currently operate an internet sales company and teach classes, but his primary job involves the paper industry worldwide. Hobbies and interests lie in gardening, photography, recorded music and of course, their pets.

Happy, happy folks. Wishing you the best yet New Year.

Posted Wednesday, January 1, 2014, at 10:26 AM

Of course, it is just another day, but we get to mess up the date on anything we write for a month or so.

Did you stay up? Celebrate in a special way? Go out?

We have not checked in with our daughter yet but she was planning to attend a party down around second avenue last night. Said the place had a view overlooking the river where the fireworks were going to be held. Does not sound too bad.

We called it quits about 11:15 so I don't know if the locals stations used the musical note this year or delay broadcast the Times Square one. John was discussing it in another blog post so maybe that will get updated.

My New Year's day will be beefing up a water pipe crossing a stream in our lower 40. I thought cinder blocks would be enough to protect it from the occasional flood but the blocks are moved. Luckily the pipe is still there.

Before that I will double check the insulation. This cold snap coming in later always makes me question if it is enough, so.... off I go.