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What a party!

 New Year’s Eve.  Five couples.  A shrimp fry.  A few drinks.  6pm.  We’re going strong.  7pm.  We’re thinking maybe we’ll celebrate the New Year on Eastern Time.  8pm.  We’re wondering in which time zone it’s already the New Year.  8:05.  We realize we’re not going to make it to 9:00.  8:10.  We reach a consensus decision and declare 8:15 to be the start of the new year.  8:15.  We blow the noisemakers, yell “Happy New Year”, do a group hug, and everyone goes home. Happy New Year!  
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Dolphins

Remember hearing of all those pictures I’ve taken of what it looks like just before or just after a dolphin leaps out of the bow wake of a big ship? Hard to get the timing of the shutter snap just right.

Finally

I got one.

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Snow Day!

 Here I am working.  I call the office and know what?  Those criminals in Denver declared a Snow Day and sent everyone home…….and didn’t tell me! Well, as soon as I found out…..Snow Day for me too!  I jumped in the car and went to Paradise Pond to look at birds.  It was good.  Here we are, at the end of December, and I got three warbler species:  Yellow-rumped, Orange-crowned, and Wilson’s.  And a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.  Paradise Pond was swarming with Yellow-rumps.  I saw at least twenty.  Not bad for a Snow Day. This afternoon, a fish fry outside at Jeff and Carol’s.  It got cool after dark though.  We’re packing up to leave.  We’re going south for the winter.