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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | For New Years Eve? Hubby and I will be staying home to make sure no one will be setting off fireworks to close to my horses and making sure all the doggies are safely locked up in the shop, and its just safer to stay home anyways, we have been party poopers for a long long time, lol..
Hope that everyone has a safe and Happy New Year...
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | Doing the same as you. We have a few lovely neighbors that do fireworks practically all year long,even in the blizzards.so I will be home making sure Jack and Romeo are safely tucked in and my puppies are under the blankets:) |
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Location: Montana | Nothing doing really here, we're boring, ha-ha. Stay up til midnight, not even sure if we'll have our sparkling juice that night or in the morning. By Saturday night we are usually so tired it is all we can do to watch TV and eat popcorn, LOL. Luckily we have pretty good neighbors out where I have my horses (I board), but usually it is so cold here on New Years Eve and New Years that nobody wants to be outside shooting off fireworks. There are usually some, but some how 0 degree weather takes a little of the sport out of it, LOL. |
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Location: Texas | I will be working. Hope everyone has a great New Years! |
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| We go down to the neighbors farm shop every year for a fish fry and cards. I don't miss the ruckus. |
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Location: Oklahoma | We have a 3.5 month old little girl, so we will be sleeping!!! |
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Location: Jersey Girl | We will probably just go to friends of ours. Nothing too exciting! Or we may just decide to stay home....I ususally fall asleep before midnight anyway..... |
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 Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | We will be doing the same as you, making sure the horses aren't going nuts because of our idiot neighbor shooting of fireworks... 
The dogs will be in the mudroom, so they are good. (they are old and deaf anyway....   )
After the idiots are done we can go to sleep.
Pretty boring fuddy duddy's.... |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | We always stay home. Hubby says New Year's Eve is for amature's and it's not safe to be on the roads!! |
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| We always stay home -we are both home bodies anyway :) |
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I just read the headlines
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| Like many of you, staying home and making sure the idiots don't set our pasture on fire like they did several years ago. Thankfully, we have had some rain, so not really a problem this year, but it is fun driving down the road slow and letting them know I am checking. Gosh, we are so boring anymore!  |
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | Like many of you, we will be monitoring the horses all night. Last year the neighbors lit up the sky, fireworks and firecrackers. Kids hauling a$$ up and down our pasture/side road throughout the night. Hubby and I will probably watch movies until the noise settles. We're party poopers as well. ;) |
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I just read the headlines
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| The funny thing is the horses go to the edge of the brush or get in their run in sheds and watch the fire works just like we do. The dogs hide in the barn. I don't worry about the animals anymore, but I do worry about the idiots firing off their fireworks and aiming them towards the pasture. |
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| Since I don't have horses right now, just a dog, and live in town I don't have to worry about the fireworks too much! I got invited to go a few places an hour away to three hours away but I've drove a lot for the holidays and am just going to stay in town. I don't usually buy clothes too often but treated myself to a cute long sleeve cocktail dress for $15 and cute heels for $7 from Gabes, so I'm excited just to get dressed up and just go to a local restaurant and then bar here with a friend of two! I'll add a picture of my bargain finds 
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Location: MN | blccwgl55 - 2016-12-30 8:59 AM
Since I don't have horses right now, just a dog, and live in town I don't have to worry about the fireworks too much! I got invited to go a few places an hour away to three hours away but I've drove a lot for the holidays and am just going to stay in town. I don't usually buy clothes too often but treated myself to a cute long sleeve cocktail dress for $15 and cute heels for $7 from Gabes, so I'm excited just to get dressed up and just go to a local restaurant and then bar here with a friend of two! I'll add a picture of my bargain finds
SUPER CUTE!!!!!!! |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | blccwgl55 - 2016-12-30 8:59 AM Since I don't have horses right now, just a dog, and live in town I don't have to worry about the fireworks too much! I got invited to go a few places an hour away to three hours away but I've drove a lot for the holidays and am just going to stay in town. I don't usually buy clothes too often but treated myself to a cute long sleeve cocktail dress for $15 and cute heels for $7 from Gabes, so I'm excited just to get dressed up and just go to a local restaurant and then bar here with a friend of two! I'll add a picture of my bargain finds
Welll what a little hottie you are, Very cute  |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | jake16 - 2016-12-29 11:12 PM Doing the same as you. We have a few lovely neighbors that do fireworks practically all year long,even in the blizzards.so I will be home making sure Jack and Romeo are safely tucked in and my puppies are under the blankets:)
I think we may have the same neighbors!! Christmas, New Years, Memorial Day, Labor Day, 4th of July, Birthdays. Heck one of them set off fireworks when his Mother died. We even have a year around wholesale outlet a mile up the road, where they practice and advertise by setting off BIG fireworks.
My horses and dogs became immune years ago. |
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| Well thanks guys!! I appreciate that! I love dressing up from time to time 
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Location: Southwest New Mexico | I wish I was spending it in Buckeye  |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | nm_ana07 - 2016-12-30 5:51 PM I wish I was spending it in Buckeye
Is your family there? |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | SC Wrangler - 2016-12-30 12:21 PM
jake16 - 2016-12-29 11:12 PM Doing the same as you. We have a few lovely neighbors that do fireworks practically all year long,even in the blizzards.so I will be home making sure Jack and Romeo are safely tucked in and my puppies are under the blankets:)
I think we may have the same neighbors!! Christmas, New Years, Memorial Day, Labor Day, 4th of July, Birthdays. Heck one of them set off fireworks when his Mother died. We even have a year around wholesale outlet a mile up the road, where they practice and advertise by setting off BIG fireworks.
My horses and dogs became immune years ago.
Two of my pups hate fireworks.And I have gotten to the point that I hate them too.And those shooting targets that blow up and sound like a horrible truck crash or bomb going off. |
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Location: Southeast Louisiana | I'll be out in the yard doing my annual rain dance! We just have to make it through tonight, then the forcast calls for rain. Come On Rain!!!
I hate fireworks and just stay home and try to keep my animals calm. |
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Location: NC | Hanging at the house and trying to figure out how to watch the ball drop without cable
We moved a couple of months ago from a neighborhood where they set fireworks off all the time (even though fireworks were illegal in ny) so looking forward to seeing what this neighborhood does for holidays. |
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Location: Illinois | Having some friends and family over along with some beer and pizza. Best way to end the year!
Hope everyone has a safe one :) |
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Location: Southwest New Mexico | Southtxponygirl - 2016-12-30 5:15 PM
nm_ana07 - 2016-12-30 5:51 PM I wish I was spending it in Buckeye
Yeah they went to the New Years barrel race and futurity |
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Serious Snap Trapper
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Location: In The Snow, AZ | nm_ana07 - 2016-12-30 6:37 PM
Southtxponygirl - 2016-12-30 5:15 PM
nm_ana07 - 2016-12-30 5:51 PM I wish I was spending it in Buckeye
Yeah they went to the New Years barrel race and futurity
I heard there were over 300 entries. Gonna be a big one. Over $15k added. |
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Nita - 2016-12-30 6:34 PM I'll be out in the yard doing my annual rain dance! We just have to make it through tonight, then the forcast calls for rain. Come On Rain!!! I hate fireworks and just stay home and try to keep my animals calm.
Thats funny... so will I, I always hope that it rains on New Years Eve and a big thunderstorm rolls in right befor midnight to keep all the ding dongs from setting off their firewoks and shooting their darn guns, guns are my main gripe out here, we have plenty of our own guns but we dont use them for fireworks like some of these nut cases out here do.  |
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| Yep, had vascular surgery yesterday so going for a very short walk then getting horizontal. |
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"Heck's Coming With Me"
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Location: Kansas | My plans.......... 
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | streakysox - 2016-12-31 10:10 AM Yep, had vascular surgery yesterday so going for a very short walk then getting horizontal.
Yep thats the plan getting everybody taken care of as in horses and dogs, poor dogs hates the fireworks so they get locked up in the shop and then getting in that horizonal position.. Hope your not in to much pain, heard that kind of surgery can be a bit painful. |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | streakysox - 2016-12-31 11:10 AM Yep, had vascular surgery yesterday so going for a very short walk then getting horizontal.
dont over do it streaky!!! Hope your day goes smooth and your new year is bright!  |
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Location: lone star state | Lots going on in my area this weekend. We are team roping, one daughter barrel racing, one daughter cutting this weekend. We are "partying" it up! |
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This was a piece of cake. I can't do anything in a NORMAL manor. Had to have surgery twice this week. Nothing went wrong, just the way they had to do it. Thank you. I am pretty good at following Dr orders. Already shooting fireworks but someone will probably blow their hand off before midnight. |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | No fireworks here YET.praying all is safe tonight and the people of NY stay safe watching that ball drop!! Glad all is well! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | jake16 - 2016-12-31 4:44 PM No fireworks here YET.praying all is safe tonight and the people of NY stay safe watching that ball drop!! Glad all is well!
No fireworks either out here yet, but dumba**'s shotting their guns and had a ricochet come threw while I was putting up horses, I knew where it came from and I was plenty pi**, so I called the sheriff and my husband went and had a chat with the people..I am so not looking forward for tonight.. |
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Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Ugh, only 8.24pm and I already had to stay outside for an hour trying to keep the horses calm. My heeler ducked under the bench in the mudroom and doesn't want to come out. All because our idiot neighbors started early.... They seemed to have stopped for now, but it's going to be a loooong night....
Soooo looking forward to move to a bigger place so we don't have anybody nearby... |
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | cranky B4 10am - 2016-12-31 9:25 PM
Ugh, only 8.24pm and I already had to stay outside for an hour trying to keep the horses calm. My heeler ducked under the bench in the mudroom and doesn't want to come out. All because our idiot neighbors started early.... They seemed to have stopped for now, but it's going to be a loooong night....
Soooo looking forward to move to a bigger place so we don't have anybody nearby...
I feel for you.my skin just crawls when I hear them starting.so far so good here.i hope it's an uneventful nite but I bet they are all getting ready to stir it up. |
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| blccwgl55 - 2016-12-30 8:59 AM Since I don't have horses right now, just a dog, and live in town I don't have to worry about the fireworks too much! I got invited to go a few places an hour away to three hours away but I've drove a lot for the holidays and am just going to stay in town. I don't usually buy clothes too often but treated myself to a cute long sleeve cocktail dress for $15 and cute heels for $7 from Gabes, so I'm excited just to get dressed up and just go to a local restaurant and then bar here with a friend of two! I'll add a picture of my bargain finds
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | Southtxponygirl - 2016-12-31 6:00 PM jake16 - 2016-12-31 4:44 PM No fireworks here YET.praying all is safe tonight and the people of NY stay safe watching that ball drop!! Glad all is well! No fireworks either out here yet, but dumba**'s shotting their guns and had a ricochet come threw while I was putting up horses, I knew where it came from and I was plenty pi**, so I called the sheriff and my husband went and had a chat with the people..I am so not looking forward for tonight..
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | jake16 - 2016-12-31 8:59 PM Southtxponygirl - 2016-12-31 6:00 PM jake16 - 2016-12-31 4:44 PM No fireworks here YET.praying all is safe tonight and the people of NY stay safe watching that ball drop!! Glad all is well! No fireworks either out here yet, but dumba**'s shotting their guns and had a ricochet come threw while I was putting up horses, I knew where it came from and I was plenty pi**, so I called the sheriff and my husband went and had a chat with the people..I am so not looking forward for tonight.. Not good! I hope it stays quiet for you!
Will the fireworks are going off, but they are in the distance, so thats kinda good, but boy when they go off it sounds like a cannon, they make fireworks so much louder now adays..The land is real rolley out here so it really echo's when the fireworks go off, I go outside about every 45 mins to go check on my horses and then at midnight the dam guns will start going off again.. Be so glad when this night is over with..I'm such a party pooper, lol.. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Well Happy New Year everybody, stay safe..
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Location: Arkansas | total performance - 2016-12-30 8:11 AM
We always stay home. Hubby says New Year's Eve is for amature's and it's not safe to be on the roads!!
My momma called me around 5 and said they were going out. I asked where and she said Doe's (famous steak house but horrible horrible part of town) with their best friends. When I told her that 4 "old folks" didn't need to be on the road in this weather and tonight of all nights---they all 4 thought that was real funny. I told her at her age she knew better than to be out tonight. . . . So not only was I worrying about Chandler and Lula Bell being out, but also my parents. (They were home at a reasonable hour so I'm gonna let them slide!!) Still sitting up waiting on the kids to come home tho. . . . I dread nights like these. |
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Location: Arkansas | ~BINGO~ - 2016-12-30 8:44 AM
Like many of you, we will be monitoring the horses all night. Last year the neighbors lit up the sky, fireworks and firecrackers. Kids hauling a$$ up and down our pasture/side road throughout the night. Hubby and I will probably watch movies until the noise settles. We're party poopers as well. ;)
Sounds exactly like our road and idiots |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Well we all made it threw the night and so happy the SUN is up,, Hope that everyone did well last night too, just a long night for all us horsey people.. Happy New Year  |
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Witty Enough
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Location: CTX | Yes ma'am! We made it. Luckily our direct neighbors didn't start again at midnight. So at about 12.30 I decided to let them out in the pasture, since it seemed all quiet. Of course I had not counted on some other neighbors being in a differend timezone.... or their clocks were an hour late..... but they started at 1.00..... Luckily they are a bit farter away, but I still went out to check on the kids a couple of times.
the dogs were still hiding, but the horses were just munching on their hay, and the 2 year old had streched out in the hay... lol.... he might be the youngest, but he was the coolest through the night....
So at around 2am everything was quiet and it was time for bed for me... (the hubby slept through all that.... )
ETA, and a happy New Year to all!!!
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Location: Florida | I stayed up for a change. At midnight I celebrated the death of 2016 and gave it the finger. Made me feel better for some reason. Let's hope 2017 is a better year for everyone.
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A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | cranky B4 10am - 2017-01-01 10:18 AM Yes ma'am! We made it. Luckily our direct neighbors didn't start again at midnight. So at about 12.30 I decided to let them out in the pasture, since it seemed all quiet. Of course I had not counted on some other neighbors being in a differend timezone.... or their clocks were an hour late..... but they started at 1.00..... Luckily they are a bit farter away, but I still went out to check on the kids a couple of times.
the dogs were still hiding, but the horses were just munching on their hay, and the 2 year old had streched out in the hay... lol.... he might be the youngest, but he was the coolest through the night....
So at around 2am everything was quiet and it was time for bed for me... (the hubby slept through all that.... )
ETA, and a happy New Year to all!!!
Thats funny how the husbands can sleep while we are up worring over our horses and us going out and checking on them threw out the night, I think I was more worried then the horses, every time I went out to check up on them they were like ok lady get the flashlight out of our faces please, lol.. But at least I knew they were ok.. But boy am I tired today... |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Vickie - 2017-01-01 10:21 AM I stayed up for a change. At midnight I celebrated the death of 2016 and gave it the finger. Made me feel better for some reason. Let's hope 2017 is a better year for everyone.
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Go Get Em!
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Location: OH. IO | Well...No excitement here.NOT ONE FIREWORK OR GUNSHOT!!!!!! YAY!!! I was up passed 5am waiting for nothing.This is the first year in 25years . |
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My Heart Be Happy
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Location: Arkansas | jake16 - 2017-01-01 9:55 PM
Well...No excitement here.NOT ONE FIREWORK OR GUNSHOT!!!!!! YAY!!! I was up passed 5am waiting for nothing.This is the first year in 25years .
My kids got home around 3:30 so after a quick bath I finally got into bed around 4. NYE's aren't nearly as fun as they were 20 to 25 years ago! |
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