Happy New Year!!!!

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Eating pounded rice cakes is a part of the New Year's thing here. You can buy machine made ones, but I go out to a friend's old house in the mountains and we party with a bunch of people and make the cakes in the traditional way. The special rice gets steamed in three tired boxes over a water urn above an open fire. Then each box of rice when ready gets dumped into a big log that has had the top hollowed out and everybody takes turns pounding the rice into soft elastic type cakes that get used in various dishes over days and weeks because it doesn't spoil. Lots of smoke and steam and people enjoying the spirits in a glass and wherever else they might find them. Old traditional ways are good to keep alive. Being way out in the countryside seems to enhance the enjoyment. Adults and kids, a good time is had by all. We pounded 18 buckets pf rice, had the fire burning for ten hours. Lots of people went home with their mochi.

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And here we go again!!!

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New years eve was pack the missus and kids up and go see a movie Levi was promised. He has been waiting to see Fantastic Beasts. Went to Fresno so we could hit Sweet Tomatoes for an early dinner. Sweet Tomatoes is high ranking in the family's favorite restaurants.
Then homeward bound through rain and fog after a Walley World stop. Kids sat up and watched movies. Adults fell asleep before it hit midnight. This more or less brings my holidays to an end. Time to hunker down and work on solving business stuff now. Get the next truck ready to go in for repair. Stuff like that.
 
We got mentioned on BBC national radio and made it to number 4 on the Gigwise 'new years parties not to miss' out of the whole of the UK. What a blast.
 
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