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Side Trip

To those who might not know, I am posting from New Zealand now and there is a blog with lots of pretty pictures at hanajonramblingon.blogspot.com.  Will return to winter by February. In the meantime, go to the travel blog and check out what it looks like in paradise.

20th New Year, Blueberry Hill Style

The first five households moved into Blueberry Hill at the end of 2000 -- we were one of them --and so we have now celebrated 20 New Years observances in this neighborhood. That's a chunk of a lifetime. For some of the people who were part of the festivities last night, it is 10/11 of their lives.  For others of us, more like 1/3. At midnight, there were about 20 of us sitting around a long table in the Common House, having spent the last four and a half hours together in six different houses doing our progressive dinner thing.  It's the only night of the year where we make a plan to do something that requires so many hours of socializing and it works every time, even though most of us have usually been asleep for a while before midnight.  Sitting across from me were two young women from two different families who had arrived at Blueberry Hill when they were two.  They were deliciously cute way back then and they look almost exactly the same now, with longer bodies...