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When the news is due, I Pandemic. Could be some A month later, we are done, I did have an email from
usually contact Jill! Thank you, joined Sue and me doing a little shorter duration, but Carleen Williams Cook and
cousin, for your input!! little. MA was an early and more than 3000 gallons of she has been zooming with
A note from Jill Peabody intensely infected Covid virus sap. Good year, great exercise, Carole Hannigan Desjardins,
Barbieri: Petri dish state. good to be outdoors, mighty Mary Ross Ryder, and Hollie
Ingraham. She said she would
fine syrup.
THIS PAST YEAR: WOW what Political and medical leaders include me next time.
can I say!! encouraged us to live a near Mary, you are intimate with
quarantined life. We did. this activity. You have a sense I met Phyllis Sennett Hersey
This past year has been so Among other governors, as to the work Sue and I going into the grocery store
hard on so many people, I Maine forbade us in MA contribute. The bottler is 72; last week, but she was in a line
guess we feel lucky to have to visit, fish, fiddlehead, another volunteer is 65. The and I was going out so did not
each other, a home, do not and vacation. We used our owner is early 50s. We could be have a chance to talk with her.
have to worry about work vehicles so little our insurance the "over the hill gang", except
and have food. We have company rebated premiums we are not yet. Another month, Judith Maines Taton passed
done what others have done, to us twice. Didn't everyone? hope to be on the West Branch away on 3/31/20 and has left
stayed home, made some The Pandemic is more about picking fiddleheads. the alumni a donation. The
improvements, cleaned out what we did not do than executor believes it will be
closets and drawers, exercised what we did. We did not get Maybe you and Dave can use about $150,000.00 when all
and walked as much as we tested, no family gatherings, some of this for our HHSAA the bills are paid. What a nice
could. We did go up to the no dinner parties, cookouts Newsletter. Maybe not. Love surprise!!
lake in Wilton last August and with friends, no grandkids. We you guys. Hope you are all getting your
did see the kids there. The worked puzzles, worked the Dick and Sue Covid shots and maybe by the
kids have come up this way flower garden, read books, Thanks so much, Dick! All you next newsletter we will have
which has been a help. Just even some I think I read wrote sounds SO accurate been able to mingle, and I will
not many visitors especially 30 years ago and watched for my happenings during have more news.
when everything had been sunsets. the winter. I know others will Patricia Donovan Fitzpatrick ‘63
shut down. We had 3 GREAT relate too!! My whole family mslittleton@pioneercable.net
grandsons born last year Takeout meals from is working on the sapping
2020 and just had a GREAT restaurants. We saw no operation on 'B"!! They love it Greetings Classmates !
granddaughter born March family during any Holiday; and have renamed the little
15th, 2021. Had seen just one we were in MA where folks camp that Jimmy Peabody It is Hollie sharing some
of them last year but have died by thousands, more built (next to the sap house) thoughts and a little news.
lots of pictures!! Hopefully, 17,000 in last 12 months. It "The Sip and Sap"! What a Here is hoping we are
this summer we can see is not over. But with our first great spot! Lauren Peabody healthy, wearing our masks,
them all. Two grandchildren inoculations and calendars Fitzpatrick has filled it washing our hands, keeping
will have their postponed telling us mid-February was with family memorabilia. It social distance, and getting
weddings this year-one, in here, it was syrup season. provides quite a collection! vaccinated !
May in Conn, and one in Sept. Outside work, safe. And the Her father would be proud, as
in Conn. We are hoping to syrup team agreed to shift- he saved everything!! Like many of you during this
pandemic, I have been able to
get to both. Have not done work. The former sugar shack keep in “touch” with friends and
a lot as you can see but the social event of the season was Hoping that this Class of 1962 family via Zoom or FaceTime or
time has zipped by. Hope you on hold. A dozen years ago, update finds our classmates in Skype during those times when
are doing ok Mary! Love to friends bought Al Putnam's good condition and ready for we have not been able to be
get to Houlton this summer. (HHS 1966) evaporator summer! together in person. Never have
Your family, ok?? All this Covid through contacts Joe Inman Mary and David I enjoyed a computer screen so
stuff has been so hard for (HHS 1958) and I engineered.
them I am sure, but the future Sue (RCI 1962) and I do most Class of 1963 much !!
is looking better each day. collecting from about 200 Patricia D. Fitzpatrick When we could no longer meet
Must keep a positive attitude taps, half of which are on 346 Carmichael Road in person once a month, I have
through it all don't we!! Love tubing. We collect early in the Littleton, ME 04730 zoomed with a group we call
to you. afternoon. I start the fire by (207) 538-9653 “Books and Apples”. Fellow
4:00; my shift ends by 6:30 classmates, Mary Ross Ryder,
Thanks, Jill. Loved getting when those who work for a mslittleton@pioneercable.net
your update!! living can relieve me. No more Carole Hannigan Desjardins,
and Carleen Williams Cook are
The following mail is from midnight work. Here it is newsletter time again! members of this group. We talk
I have reached out to a couple
Dick Denton: Shutdown is by 10, even of classmates with no response, about books and magazines we
Mary, A couple weeks ago if I must restart the next so I guess everyone is like me have been reading. Regarding
I thought you asked what morning. We collected 18 with this Covid - not much “apples”, we help each other
our Class did during the times, beginning Feb 23rd. interaction. out with our iPads and iPhones.
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