New Year - Fresh Start

Well..the New Year came in with bang...literally. I had saved back a couple of packs of firecrackers from July 4th to ring in the New Year. Unfortunately, the dog got outside and the heard the fireworks going off. Let me tell you, for a sporting dog, she wanted NO PART of that foolishness and it took me 20 minutes to coax her out of the barn and back into the house.