Sounds like you are all hunkering down for the New Year and facing whatever daily challenges come our way (they don't stop for a pandemic, do they?!)
The last few days have consisted of pottering around the house, putting away some Christmas gifts, cleaning up some family history notes (mainly entering them into my program and chucking them into the recycling) and looking for family references on the Newspaper Archive site. Always find some interesting tidbits! I managed to vacuum my office rug - OH has been doing the main vacuuming since my sciatica has been a particular nuisance. I foolishly bought a very nice rug at Ikea that has a black background - and with our blonde hairy dog, that has had to have been one of my stupidest purchases ever. It is hardly ever hairless! I guess I should be a better housekeeper and vacuum it more often
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Also did some of my online work, have a lesson plan unit I want up on the site by tomorrow. Looking like I will meet my own deadline, just have to proof it now.
A couple of nights ago was woken up by a dog barking - at 12:40 a.m.! Like others, I have insomnia problems, so was not best pleased (I did not get back to sleep for an hour). It appears that our neighbour (very nice single man in his 30's) has a visitor with a dog (still there), or else someone has moved in with him. I don't begrudge him a dog, but that is just too late to put your dog out! Ours is a barker too, but he is never out unsupervised, and goes out around 7:30 PM for his last nightly. When I take him out a 6:30 a.m. he is on the leash and is quiet, even if he sees a rabbit. If he sees a skunk, he is dragged back in the house!
We had some fireworks on New Year's too, but they would have been strictly private individuals setting them off, nothing through the municipality. They were done fairly early.
Yesterday OH and I decided to play cribbage, I beat him, both games, generally he has the edge on me, but not lately. Can't get him to play Scrabble, he says I would humiliate him. After that we had some rich food (and I had had one wine) - OH had made rotzi for New Year's Eve, so had the leftovers, along with some puff pastry appetizers and some brie tarts I had made - followed by a big lump of fruit cake. All too rich! We were both groaning about it this morning. His turn to make the meal tonight, he says it will be "light"!
We finished watching Deadwater Fell (not the greatest), I finished my Elizabeth George book before the end of 2020, and yesterday began Cop to Corpse by Peter Lovesey. I also started a new jigsaw puzzle, a lovely winter scene by the American folk artist Charles Wysocki.
Weather here has been a mixed bag - snow, rain, freezing rain, basically no sunshine. It's rather crunchy out there today, not too many braving their walk down to the park...a snow plow was clearing the school parking lot, heaven knows why, they are not back at school until the 11th, I guess it is for the staff if they want to come in.