The big move

[sebastian_tombs]

Sometime this year, likely late Spring/early Summer, I will be moving to North Carolina - the Raleigh/Durham area, working in RTP. I'll be down there for maybe 6 months before wren13 and the herd come down - which will greatly complicate things.

This will be pretty complex, and while I am looking forward to living in NC, I am really not looking forward to the actual transition.

Somme notes of things from this year that I will miss:

• Our favorite New Year's Eve party
  
• Seeing the friends I've built up in the 18 years I've lived in NE
  
• winter birds from the north - Common Redpolls and Pine Grosbeaks are this year's best examples
  
• Chasing rarities from the UK or Alaska (Black-headed Gull and Barrow's Goldeneye are successes so far this year, and I didn't find the Mew Gull down in Swampscott)
  
• The birding community in NH as well as Plum Island/Parker River NWR
  
• Schezuan Garden II in Woburn
  
• Going to the movies with ahf
  
• New England Christmas light displays
  
• Being able to drive to Albany in approx. 3 hours
  
• Our relatively new bath tub

Things I won't miss?

• Snow
  
• Snow
  
• Ice
  
• cold
  
• Winter