The Pittsfield Oscar goes to the 6 trucks I saw yesterday morning on the ice, at the lake. Or, maybe that would be the Darwin awards. The Oscar actually goes to the young girl who was helping her father out ice fishing, for acting like she might be enjoying it.
Mary is off at another swim meet today, and she swears it will be her last. Wanna bet?
Last weekend, we drove a thankfully almost snow-free drive westward to Fairport and spent the evening with David and Paula. Matthew, Tina and Oliver came over for one of Paula's famous dinners and catching up on wedding reminiscing. Tina is well into her new life as a full-time nursing student and seems to enjoy it. Oliver is busy with all kinds of activities like martial arts. Look out. The next day, it snowed. Go figure! We went out to brunch with David and Paula and had an overall wonderful time talking diets, investing, furniture, retirement and history.
From Fairport, we went to Cornell where I gave a talk on history and memory and foreign relations. Our host, a neuro biologist, worked with me at the State Department, and the photo shows us with him, in front of his birds who he monitors in experiments on learning and memory. Very interesting.
Left over from last week's weekly letter was Margaret's claim that she was the last person to shake Hillary's hand as she left the State Department. Pretty cool. She would have gone to see in the new guy the next day, but had a lot of work to do, including writing a memo to that same new guy.
Good news from colleges: Claire got into one more college (Cornell of Iowa) and Annie got into NYU. Congratulations. Annie also had her last day of work on Friday, so she is set to enjoy the next few months in China. She's signed up for a Chinese language course.
Spring is around the corner. I got a fishing rod from Joe this week, and plans are in the offing for a fishing weekend in May. Anyone care to join? And, the first spring season baseball games started.
So is summer. Mary looked into Mountain Springs, for a possible weekend this summer, but found it is almost all booked. Must be the spillover from people losing beach houses on the Jersey shore. We're happy to host a weekend up here, and can look into venues besides Jiminy Peak. David and Paula also suggested somewhere in the Finger Lakes. All good. Thoughts?
Hey, one more thing. I just got a subscription to www.ancestry.com and am happy to share the password if anyone wants to look around that site. Let me know.
That's all from cold and wet New England. Love.
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