{"id":471,"date":"2024-02-18T03:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2025-09-27T17:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T17:52:18","slug":"tom-brigid-46th-anniversary-of-our-meeting-yay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Tom & Brigid – 46th anniversary of our meeting! YAY!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Yup. February 17th, 1978. In Jamaica where we were both living and teaching. Brigid crashed a house party I was throwing and the rest is history. We had seen each other around town (Mandeville) a couple of times, including passing each other in the street and saying “Hi” – and my being at a party she and her roommate had a couple of months before my (very well attended!) party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So yesterday we went for a walk on Croton Point later in the morning as the snow was ending. Pictures below – check out the red tailed hawk. And for dinner we had some gorgeous Mac and Cheese that Tim made. We also had a really interesting rum based cocktail that we discovered – more about that in another posting. And the house was empty – both away for a few days with friends. Very unusual for just the two of us to be “home alone.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the walk in, as we take pictures of each other. Nice wintery background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nearing the Yew trees -which Brigid says are 150 years old (?) and she always takes their pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The view south – not sure what Brigid was seeing – we didn’t go any further to the very end of Teller’s Point – too muddy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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so having turned around and on the way back a red tailed hawk flew above us. And then being tipped off by a woman walking her dog that there was a large owl we went looking. We could hear the owl hotting but no sighting. Then another bird call and we spotted a second red tailed hawk – got some pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With my samsung phone – no zoom – can you see the bird?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then zooming in, these two pictures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And as it flew off, I was able to get this shot – the wings outstretched – through the nearby tree branches. Won’t win any awards but I thought it was cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/a>As we neared our car Brigid said “look back at our footsteps” – she decided this was romantic so I took the picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yup. February 17th, 1978. In Jamaica where we were both living and teaching. Brigid crashed a house party I was throwing and the rest is history. We had seen each other around town (Mandeville) a couple of times, including passing each other in the street and saying “Hi” – and my being at a party […]<\/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-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10735,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/10735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}