The New New Year Tradition

The New Tradition
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Last night was Year One of The New New Year Tradition at Great Plotnik World Headquarters, Meatball Kitchen and Ravioli Factory. Plotnik, Ducknik, BW and E2 made homemade ravioli, using the pasta machine Plotnik bought maybe 35 years ago on Mulberry Street in the Big Shmapple. BZ made the dough, E2 kneaded and rolled it out thin and flat using the pasta machine, GP mixed up the butternut squash/ricotta/nutmeg filling, BZ filled the ravioli and cut them out using Plotnik's new ravioli cutter, and Ducknik set the table and poured the Groth merlot that had been sitting down for five years awaiting this opportunity.

OK, so it's easy to see who tried making the first two or three ravioli by hand until his daughter pushed him out of the way.

Later on, at midnight, the fireworks went off over the Bay with stars peeking through the rain clouds filling the sky, and 2005 was now 2006.

Happy New Year to all Great Plotnik readers and also to the other 99.99999 percent of the human population on Earth. May 2006 be a healthy and creative year for us all. Amen.