Key to the symbols                                                                       Dec. 16, 2012

Written by Eva. approved by Herman

                                                   

eva@theworld.com herman@theworld.com  http://theworld.com/~eva

 

Dear Family and Friends,

 

Oakes memorialized New Year’s weekend 2012 with The Ballad of Sir Glenn, which is on my website.

 

On April 24^th we celebrated our 30^th anniversary.

 

In May we traded our two cars for one 2012 Prius-C, in dark grey.

 

I got the photos of the  Indigo Bunting and Mourning Warbler on Glenn’s Mt. Greylock trip. I photographed 159 avian species in 2012, eight more than in 2011,  quite a few of which I picked up on this trip with Herman. 

 

In late June we traveled from Montreal to Nova Scotia VIA sleeper, then we rented a car. The highlight of the trip was a dinner  we hosted for the D’Entremont clan in Pubnico on the 4^th of July at the Red Cap.  Herman’s cousin Anne was our point person on the ground organizing it.  On a Whale Watch on the Bay of Fundy we got Fulmar, Puffin, and Sooty and Greater Shearwaters, as well as whales.

 

We enjoyed a few days later in July with Ellie and Stauffer on Cape Cod where we heard Bob White, Whipporwill, and  Chuck Will’s Widow.

 

In August we went to a Pool Party to celebrate Raymond Rios’s birthday.

 

In September  our Prius-C was rear-ended and deemed totaled!  We replaced it with the same model, but in white.  We had a rental when George Keilbach got a Flicker.

 

Herman was still walking in October, but in November he broke his hip. He’s in rehab now, walking again, albeit slowly.  He missed a slew of great birds while he was laid up, so his MA year list stands at only  273.

 

On a walk at Fresh Pond  the day after Thanksgiving with the three Coopers we got the Barred Owl.

 

I am the Sergeant-at-Arms elect of the Google Toastmaster’s chapter.

 

May those who died in 2012, including Herman’s sister Peggy, rest in

 

Peace,