dropping objects New Year's Eve

Times Square NYC eat your heart out! Sure the world media focuses on your ball drop but the small towns of South Central Pennsylvania take dropping objects on New Year’s Eve to another dimension.

Mechanicsburg drops a wrench
Blain drops a cow
Hershey drops a Hershey’s Kiss
Dillsburg drops a pickle
Hummelstown drops a lollipop
Carlisle drops a race car
Lower Allen drops yellow britches
Shippensburg drops an anchor
Cleona drops a pretzel
Lebanon drops a bologna
Palmyra drops a shoe
Harrisburg drops a strawberry
Duncannon drops a sled
Liverpool drops a canal boat
Red Lion drops a lion holding a cigar
York drops a white rose
Lancaster drops a red rose
Elizabethtown drops an M&M
New Bloomfield drops a huckleberry
Manheim drops an orb
Falmouth drops a goat

Plus all of these drops are wrapped up in the small town Americana of a winter street fair.

I personally have attended the wrench drop! Words cannot capture the moment.

Patti and I almost made it to the dropping of the race car in Carlisle before her Multiple Sclerosis fatigue and short term memory chose to wrap up New Year’s Eve.

Jennifer and Tyler have enjoyed evening activities but never made it to the dropping of anything. In the parallel universe of teen autism, I suspect the countdown would interest Tyler but I wonder if he would grasp the phenomena of raising objects high into the sky and lowering them at midnight. … Then again, does anyone really ‘get it’?

This year I awoke to the best New Year’s Eve drop of all, SNOW!!!

While personally thrilled I do realize that snow removal operations usually complicate lowering of our wheelchair accessible van ramp.

Yet to a caregiver, the best of possible New Year’s Eve celebrations is one last challenge to close out the year!

So many choices, so little time.

Caregivingly Yours, Patrick Leer
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