Next Door Neighbors by Pat Sandy for December 29, 2023

As well as the neighbors’ dogs howling.

Another time-honored tradition!

I haven’t seen in a new year in many years…..so, Happy New Year neighbors!

Ending the year with a colorful bang. Welcoming the new year with colorful flashing lights and sirens.

If it isn’t fireworks booming, it will be the celebratory gunfire…sigh.

Some Kung Pow Chicken, fun times.

Sounds like my cul de sac.

Yes but, what would New Year’s be without all that ridiculous noise and air pollution?

No joke if you have dogs that panic at the sound, have to give mine melatonin and turn the stereo up to 11.

I just celebrate East Coast New Year’s so I can get to bed early in California. Nothing wrecks a New Year for me like waking up bleary-eyed and wasting the morning trying to get fully conscious.

You’re lucky if the midnight fireworks don’t start until New Year’s Eve. Here it started last Monday. Midnight every night

Fireworks are your neighbors way of saying, “Wake up, you old fuddy duddy! We’re younger, stupider and having more fun than you!”

LOL!

reading the preceding comments, i’m glad most of our neighbors are even older than we are – way too old for fireworks… ☺

Why is she apologizing to her? People who go to sleep at 10 pm on New Year’s Eve DESERVE to be woken up by midnight celebration! Poor fools.