JAN 1, 25 .. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025..

 

Thanks so very much Pamela for your above contribution.

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2025 IS here. 

2025 HAS arrived.

New Year’s Day can be a time of optimism, planning, and resoluteness. There’s a feeling that maybe this year we’ll make the changes we’ve been meaning to: more rest, better eating habits, more exercise, or a new job. New Year’s Day is about taking a moment to get ready for everything that is about to unfold. 

Happy New Year 2025!

Most historians credit the Roman emperor Julius Caesar with developing the Julian calendar, designating January 1 as the start of a new year. The Gregorian calendar, which many nations around the world use today, arrived in 1582 when Pope Gregory XIII aligned the calendar, not with the moon, but with the earth’s rotation around the sun — marking 365 days.

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How many of you "stayed up" until 12 o'clock midnight to welcome in 2025?

10...9...8...7...

Most Americans stay up for an hour or two after the ball drops.

1,875 pounds, the weight of Time Square’s ball. 

360 million, the number of glasses of sparkling wine that are consumed each New Year’s Eve in the U.S.

41% of Americans say New Year's Eve is their favorite holiday, after Christmas, Thanksgiving, and July 4th.

12% the amount of Americans who fall asleep before midnight.

102.1 million the number of people who travel in order to reach their New Year’s Eve destinations. 

$1,160 the average price for dinner and entertainment for two in New York City on New Year's Eve. 

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New Year's Resolutions.

The Mesopotamians and the Babylonians were among the earliest cultures to mark New Year’s Day as the start of a new year; they came up with the concept of making resolutions. Making resolutions on the first day of the year gave one favor to the gods.

Do you make them?

67% of Americans set resolutions on New Year’s Eve.

More than half of Americans make New Year's resolutions.

Over one third of the Americans who make resolutions, never keep them.

And you?

19% I always make them and keep them.

36% I always make them, but never keep them.

23% I don't make them because I know I will break them.

22% I never make them.

MOST POPULAR RESOLUTIONS

Resolve to lose weight.

Resolve to exercise more.

Resolve to get a new job.

Resolve to eat healthier.

Resolve for personal growth.

Resolve to spend more time with family.

Learn new skill/pick up new hobby.

Drink less alcohol.

Get a raise at work.

Get a new job.

Stop smoking.

Personal growth.

Get into a relationship.

Oh By The Way .. Taa Daa ..

NATIONAL TODAY / NATIONAL DAY CALENDAR.. Are the sources of most, but not 100%, of the information on our various “Days” such as today.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2025 

Cap and Patti

DEC 31, 24.. NEW YEAR'S EVE 2024..

 

We have also asked this on other Posts today, Is it OK for us to ask.. 

Where Oh Where Did Year 2024 Disappear To?

Ready Or Not! 

Like It Or Not!

Tomorrow Year 2025 arrives.

On New Year’s Eve, you either breathe a sigh of relief that the year is over or marvel at how it went by in a flash. There are many ways in which people spend this day. Some people stay in and view New Year’s Eve fireworks on their television screens, while others head out and party the night away or enjoy the grand celebrations. Whichever side you are on, one thing is for sure — there is excitement in the air. There are some annual traditions that everyone is especially enthusiastic about, such as the grand celebration and Ball Drop at Times Square in New York, which officially heralds the New Year. And some traditions around the world are believed to bring luck in the New Year, such as toasting a glass of champagne at midnight or eating 365 black-eyed peas for good luck on the first day of the New Year.

Most of us give little thought as to why we ceremoniously say goodbye to one year and hello to a new one on December 31.  Even those who don’t make special plans to greet the arrival of a new year at the stroke of midnight on December 31 pay homage to the rite with thoughts of the year gone by and hopes for the year to come.

Why do we end each year on December 31 and begin a new one on January 1 anyway?

New Year’s Eve on December 31 marks the final day of what is known as a Gregorian calendar year. Prior to the adoption of the Gregorian calendar as the global standard, most of the ancient world ran on many different and diverse calendar systems to track the passage of time.

The Gregorian calendar we use today was introduced by the Vatican in Rome under Pope Gregory XIII in October 1582. The Gregorian calendar is based on the solar year and replaced an ancient Roman calendar that was based on the lunar cycle of the earth’s moon. The Gregorian calendar is a modified version of the Julian calendar that was introduced by Roman Emperor Julius Caesar during his reign around 44 B.C., at the suggestion of Greek astronomer and mathematician Sosigenes of Alexandria.

The transition from a lunar cycle calendar to a solar year calendar on October 4, 1582, necessitated that a few days be eliminated. The day after October 4, 1582, was therefore declared by Pope Gregory to be October 15, 1582. Don’t ask us what happened to all the poor souls whose birthdays were on October 5 to 14.

Along with the implementation of a new calendar on October 4, 1582, the pope also decreed that each year would officially begin on January 1 instead of April 1 as had been the custom under the old lunar calendar system. This decision had no actual astronomical basis and was influenced by the ancient feast celebrating the Roman god Janus, the god of doorways and beginnings. The first of January seemed like a good starting-over point on a new calendar.

Oh by the way.. NATIONAL TODAY / NATIONAL DAY CALENDAR.. Are the sources of most, but not 100%, of the information on our various “Days” such as today.

Get it? Got it? Good!

Patti and I wish you all a happy, safe, and relaxed New Year's Eve 2024.

JAN 1, 24 .. WE WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY AND HOPEFUL AND JOYOUS NEW YEAR 2024

 

Patti and I.. 

Wish You and Yours.. 

A Very..

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2024.

Cap and Patti

JAN 1, 23 .. HAPPY NEW YEAR 2023

 

Thank You So Very Much Sergey For Your Great Contributions !

May You And Rimma Enjoy A Wonderful New Year 2023

Again Sergey, thanks so very much for your friendship and support. All of us so enjoy your contributions.

Cap and Patti and all of our followers.

DEC 31, 22 .. A LITTLE HOLIDAY CHEER FROM FRIENDS "OVER THERE" .. IN IRKUTSK ..

 I've said it before, I'll say it again, and in the future I will repeat myself again and again : "Without the interest and the support from all of YOU, each and everyone of YOU, we could not keep this website up and running!"

Thanks so very much Sergey for some holiday photos from Irkutsk.

No further words are necessary.

Here we go loop de loop, Here we go loop de li !!

Well Hello Rambo ! How on earth did you sneak in here ?

You are looking good Rambo !

It .. Is .. About .. To .. Be .. Happy .. New .. Year .. 2023 !!

Cap and Patti

JAN 2, 22 .. A NICE WISH FROM JEREMY IN HONG KONG FOR 2022

 It is so special to remain in-touch with friends in Hong Kong, and of course many other foreign friends.

Jeremy sent the below very nice New Years Message to all of us.

Thanks so very much Jeremy.

Cap and Patti and all of our followers here on blogspot

JAN 1, 22 .. HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY NEW YEAR .. TO ONE AND TO ALL ..

TO ONE AND TO ALL,

HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY,

NEW YEAR 2022

What with all of the major happenings all over the world this past year, we need to focus on our blessings and look forward to this New Year!

For those of you in our age group (we are in our 80s), many of us didn't think that we would 'be around' in 2022!

Yet here we are. Amazing!

Cap and Patti

JAN 1, 21 .. WE WISH YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR

HELLO AND WELCOME 2021

“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”

― Abraham Lincoln

We wish for you in 2021 happiness, joy and all good things.

Patti and Cap

JAN 1, 2019 ..HAPPY JOYOUS WONDERFUL NEW YEAR 2019 TO ONE AND TO ALL

And the world she turns. We now have New Year 2019, with all of its hope and all of its promise, just waiting for us to decide to celebrate it.

We all seem to be 'hanging by threads' don't we? My internet connection 'went down' and I have been 'off line'. So Patti and I haven't been able to wish you here on blogspot : 

HAPPY JOYOUS WONDERFUL NEW YEAR 2019

Now that the day has passed into the pages of time, and now that I am again on-line, I'll amend the above title to :

PATTI AND I HOPE YOUR NEW YEARS DAY 2019 

Was all that you would wish to have it be. 

We'll put up a few photos to help you welcome in 2019.

I don't look too bad with hair do I? The problem is that often when it is grown out, I just can't deal with it.

So off the hair came a week or so ago.

One of my most favorite holiday photos of Patti.

Our Condo in Anchorage, Alaska.

The Mayo Clinic has been a major part of our lives these past several years.

And when at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, we love the desert plants.

Summer at our Condo in Anchorage, Alaska.

Our cabin in Manley Hot Springs, Alaska.

Happy New Year in Russian cyrillic.

On New Years Day 2019, Patti and I send to all of you our LOVE!