Ah, very good! I am so glad you posted. When out sliding with the kids, we heard a lovely 2-note bird call and I wasn't able to tell them what it was. Also, we saw a downy woodpecker drumming on a maple tree.
I am disturbed that there is more than 1 New Year's party in the local Minn-StF related community. However, I cannot host such a party due to aversions to the behavior of many club members: going through the host's possessions as if they were one's own, setting up to play a game on the only available table space (gluing themselves into some of the few chairs and looming over the food), lack of inside voices, and etc. I also love Minnstf music with my whole heart, and having that be the focus of a party is deeply pleasing to me. Out of respect and affection for the club I don't host a New Year's Party (though we did have an invitational house-warming the year we moved into this house), but I am glad someone does, and that there is music.
It would be lovely if there were more parties on the holiday week between Xmas and NYE, but no one seems to host any (that I am invited to), and now that there are grandchildren, we don't have an Xmas gathering either.
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I am disturbed that there is more than 1 New Year's party in the local Minn-StF related community. However, I cannot host such a party due to aversions to the behavior of many club members: going through the host's possessions as if they were one's own, setting up to play a game on the only available table space (gluing themselves into some of the few chairs and looming over the food), lack of inside voices, and etc. I also love Minnstf music with my whole heart, and having that be the focus of a party is deeply pleasing to me. Out of respect and affection for the club I don't host a New Year's Party (though we did have an invitational house-warming the year we moved into this house), but I am glad someone does, and that there is music.
It would be lovely if there were more parties on the holiday week between Xmas and NYE, but no one seems to host any (that I am invited to), and now that there are grandchildren, we don't have an Xmas gathering either.
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