We are gonna help you out just this time...

We get it that you are not much into making toasts at the witching hour, but there is absolutely no reason that you shouldn't be prepared. If you stop in after 3pm today we will be tasting various "bubblies" and you should be able to find something to your liking to take home for later.

And to further smooth the way, here are some toasts for the "speechless". Pick what's appropriate. Raise a glass. Happy New Year.

Here's to the days of good will,
cold weather, and warm hearts.

A health to you,
a wealth to you,
And the best that life can give to you.

We've Holidays and happy days, and memory days galore
And when we've toasted every one, I offer just one more
So let us lift our glasses high, and drink a silent toast
To the day, deep buried in each heart
that each one loves the most

You, like many of us, might have a little "making up for some earlier-in-the-year errors" sometime this evening .  So in the interest of romance here are the words to the appropriate song and your favorite band playing further on down. To the light of the computer screen, sing along, hold hands, knock yourselves out.

Auld Lang Syne
by Robert Burns

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

We twa hae run aboot the braes
And pou'd the gowans fine;
we've wander'd mony a weary foot
Sin' auld lang syne

We two hae paidled i' the burn,
Frae mornin' sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne

And here's a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie's a hand o' thine;
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We'll take a cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne



What's a nudge between friends?

We certainly don't want to be nudges but New Year's Eve is 2 nights from now...2 shopping days .... and we will taste some sparkling wines Saturday, New Year's Eve from 3-6. 132 Front St. Greenport.  Got it.
'nuf said.

If you stay home that evening about 10pm or so the NY Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony will be doing their special New Year's Eve concert and they are fun to watch.  One of our friends was actually in Vienna and went to one of those some 20 plus years ago. It was fun so he said. He recounted the following:

Across from the concert hall and over a bit was a real Vienna champagne bar where one went after such concerts. They served chocolates and champagne - by all accounts a dandy combination.  Our friend went to the bar to order and had some musician friends from the event with him. He asked information as in " how much" (wie viele ist es) but his German was nicht gut and the bartender said "viel??" and our friend thought he said vier (as in the number 4 not how much) so our friend gestured to his 2 guests and repeated "vier?" which in the din of the place came out "vier jaja!" or 4 and 3 of us so 12 glasses appeared. Dazed and confused our friend paid the 120$ bar tab and and everyone drowned in cheap champagne.  The only solace was that Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Mahler had drunk champagne there on New Year's Eve - records meticulously kept - so that was kinda neat.