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January 04, 2007
Ringing in the New Year
Usually, my clan celebrate by playing board games till 11:30 or so, then Dad goes and gets the champagne toast ready, then we turn on the tube and watch the Times Square ball drop at midnight. With no electricity, that was a no-go...and with the InLaw clan, there was no hugging and crying with my family.
But we still rang in the New Year.
Being the pastor's family, they can do things like go into the church and ring the church bell. So that's what we did. The moon was nearly full and so, so bright. There were no city lights, there was ice on all the tree branches, and snow all on the ground. The moonlight was so bright and so cold and blue. The tree branches were all lit up. We stood outside and marveled at our little candle lantern (which we needed inside the dark church to find the bell rope) looking so dim in the bright, bright moonlight.
It was once in a lifetime. So bright, so cold, so blue, so snowy, so shiny. And the cold church bell ringing.
I tried to talk them into ringing it two thousand seven times. (Get it?) But SiL only rang it 7 times. It was lovely.
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