A Kent County New Year

We spent the New Year's holiday weekend in Kent County.  The Eastern Shore is always a bit slow.  That's its charm.  Being slow doesn't mean that the weekend was without its highlights, though.  Here's a sampling of just a few of them.

• At 9:30AM on Sunday morning, we stumbled across a channel called Audience that was showing entire seasons of "24" without any commercial interruptions.  It was a couch potato's dream.  By 7PM on Monday, we'd managed to watch almost all of season two (Jack Bauer stops a nuclear threat in Los Angeles) and all of season three (Jack Bauer stops the release of super-virus).  When we got up this morning and found that Audience had stopped the "24" marathon, there were so many groans you would have thought we all had hangovers.
• Rock Hall has to be the only place in the world that celebrates the New Year by dropping a rockfish.  However, the midnight rockfish drop isn't quite the same since it moved from the harbor to the intersection opposite the food store.  To be honest, it wasn't all that great at the harbor, either.  But, at least the giant plywood rockfish was lowered into the water.  Next year, they also might want to think about getting the countdown right.  Last time I checked, the countdown shouldn't go "30, 29, 28, 2, 1."
• It's nice to have friends who are always there to bail you out.  When Kim and I decided to turn in early on the 30th, we knew Hannah would still have company to join her in a celebratory shot at midnight to ring in her 21st birthday.  Thank you!