Your New Year's Resolution

As we look ahead and realize New Year's Eve is this Saturday, it causes one to ponder what should we expect not only for the weekend but for the new year. And at the same time, it becomes a time of reflection on the previous year.

The words, "whatever you are doing on New Year's Eve, you are destined to do for the rest of the year". I don't know where that came from originally, but I heard it about five years ago. It has put a different spin on my new years since.

So just this morning as I got ready to sit down to write, I was racking my brain to remember what we did last New Year's Eve. And then it hit me. We were shoveling, like most of you, what felt like mountains of snow. Not only were we snowed in, but we were snowed out of LAKEVIEW on New Years! Now we've never traditionally, planned for huge New Year's Eve parties. With all the competition from the other businesses, private parties, freezing cold temperatures, and the fear of sobriety checks, we've determined our niche is to provide an evening of early diners and a cozy evening of karaoke sing-a-longs with family and friends, those that want to avoid the loud and rowdy blow-outs.

But to be closed on New Year's weekend was, what we later found, to be the beginning of a devastating year for all of us who live and do business within the Poinsett Area LakeS. And so those words have never rang more clearly, "whatever you are doing...you are destined to do for the rest of the year".

So join us in welcoming in the New Year by making sure that what you are doing this weekend, is what you want to see yourself doing throughout 2012. And maybe that's a New Year's Resolution we can all live with.

We at LAKEVIEW, hope that stopping in at LAKEVIEW for a drink, (be it coffee, hot cider, juice or a beer), a sweet treat (candy, pie, ice cream or pop), munchies (Old Dutch or Dakota style chips, nuts, jerky or sunflower seeds), live bait and tackle, or a hot meal (breakfast, lunch or supper) is at the top of your NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTION-TO DO LIST- every week you're here at the lake. Stop in and see us soon, we'll be looking out for you!
Happy New Year to You!