New Year's resignation - I'm resigned to not getting a sheepskin flying jacket.

Twenty years ago it would have looked good, I had the body of a younger man (Hands over to the peanut gallery for their interjection - But he left to go and work in the big city, and never came back! chicka-boom!).

I'm at that mid point, you could call it the mid-life point, where, if I wore that, people would look around for the open top red sports car, and twenty-something year old peroxide blonde.

Not a good look, to my mind.

So I'm resigned to growing middle aged gracefully, or at least not looking as though I'm having a mid life crisis.

My oh is a child and has a secret Stash of fireworks that surface Every new year and rattles the Street, not to mention the dogs. They'll be going off soon. I'm sure the neighbours love that Tradition of his lol

I wonder how many dogs were lost this NYE because of the actions of irresponsible people? My own dog freaked out one year - thanks to illegal backyard fireworks - and was missing for three very long days. At the time, one of the animal rescue shelters recieved a total of 58 dogs  as a direct result of NYE and were expecting more over the coming days. My neighbour's old dog panicked, smashed through a window and was hit, and killed, by a car - thanks to backyard fireworks. Complete disregard to neighbours not  to mention disrespectful.

I do enjoy fireworks but not the aftermath. Happy new year.

I'm glad you brought that up again because I forgot

To mention that he didn't actually set.off any 

Fireworks last night.

Much to my surprise.

Maybe he's grown up finally.

Some people eventually do, others don't,

Unfortunately.

When I asked why he said because it scares the

Dogs.

And just to add to that we are always home well before

Midnight on NYE because we have dogs,

You can call that irresponsible, but I think not.

And for the amount of fireworks that are going on

Very close to us a few more is not going to make 

One iota of difference one way or another.

Ecar if you yearn for a sheepskin flying jacket,

Then you should get one . Don't be dictated to

By a society that set standards of what you should

be wearing at any age.

They are warm, practical and very smart.

You and a sheepskin flying jacket are two peas in a pod

Ecar, you only live once so if you want that jacket, then, go and get it.

Ecar - a WWII Bomber Jacket.

Go for it & don't forget the Snoopy helmet.

It's on my "To get, one day..." list.

In the meantime, I've got one of these - cotton jacket, removable liner.

Nice and warm, most importantly, machine washable (a leather jacket'd spend half it's life at the drycleaner), and it doesn't look too shabby. 

It has lots of pockets, too which is good - I need somewhere to carry all the bits and bobs, and toys, and feathers and interesting looking stones that I find on my travels.

And those bottom pockets are big enough to fit a CD. Why I'd want to carry a CD, I don't know, but it's good to know that I could, if I ever found a reason to.

What's the difference between physically mistreating a dog and illegally letting off fireworks in suburbia?

One's animal cruelty, and coincidentally, so's the other one, but it's much easier to make up excuses for letting off crackers.

I'm supposed to feel safe, at home, aren't I?

Aren't I?