Reply #23: According to our family tradition, you blow off fireworks

[Tsiyu]

or at least bang pots and pans and pump the 12 gauge a few times.

That's how you keep the demons from 2004 from entering 2005. We started well before midnight CST and had a lovely display.

My two horses were spooky but I stood by their pen and talked to them grained them and explained it to them. I want them to be "bomb proof." My neighbor can shoot a rifle off the back of her mare.

Mona Lisa, the younger gal, is a hot-tempered puppy dog if that makes sense. She was ready for battle.

Sassamass, the old gal, has been through more fireworks than any horse I know, but she still got worked up a bit. In the end they munched grain as the rockets red glare so all was well.

The funny thing is, this morning when we said the word "fireworks" Mona Lisa snapped to attention and made ready to run. Guess in all my talking to them last night, she figured out what that word means!