{"id":1244,"date":"2019-12-12T04:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1244"},"modified":"2025-09-29T14:55:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T14:55:49","slug":"another-brigid-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1244","title":{"rendered":"Another Brigid Birthday!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yes, same day as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. OLOG pictured first … then a quick dozen of Brigid … some 2019, some much older …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here are some recent Brigid pictures<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At our friend Doreen’s birthday party as we waited in the dark to surprise Doreen –<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Halloween 2019!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A cocktail at 105-twenty<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And trying to catch the waitress’ eye to get her beer refilled at the Black Rock Cafe! Do you detect a pattern?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Outside Fat Sal’s last June for brunch on our anniversary (#40!!) the past June 23rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But wait! There’s more!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is in April or May, 1979, in Jamaica on the south coast at a place called Lovers Leap. We were married in Jamaica that June. For those who don’t know, we were both teaching there at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This picture requires a bit of explanation – I’ve never posted it before. We were flying out of the Mandeville rinky dink little airport to Montego Bay to leave the Island for NY, and you may be able to tell that we had more than<\/span> a few drinks the night before. On the left is our friend Paul Foster, whose son went on to play rugby professionally in England, and in the middle is Mick Paine. Mick, a more or less Communist atheist, was the best man at our wedding a week or so earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After the next two years in the Cayman Islands, back to NY and here’s Christmas in 1982, in our rented flat, 98 Grand St., in Croton. Brigid looking very serious…<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’m pretty sure this is September, 1996, with Joe in England! But maybe not – he looks older than three.
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January, 1997 with two hot shots. Tim was six weeks old at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brigid with her Mom and siblings . Clockwise – Kate, Libby, and Neville. Not sure of the date on this. Sadly, only Brigid and Libby are left.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On a happier note – the Bronx Zoo. And we still use that LL Bean daypack. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More next year!<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yes, same day as the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. OLOG pictured first … then a quick dozen of Brigid … some 2019, some much older … And here are some recent Brigid pictures At our friend Doreen’s birthday party as we waited in the dark to surprise Doreen – Halloween 2019! A cocktail […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}