FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Re: thank you, thank you, thanks for wild BBC party !!!!!!!

["Dan and Laurie Mooney" <birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

We would like to thank all involved for extending the invitation for the BBC 
party all the way to Knoxville.  It was a great evening!  I am truly 
impressed that a group of birdiers could find that much time and energy to 
put on such a project at this busy time of year!  May you all have Bohemian 
waxwings on your Chrirstmas counts!!

Dan and Laurie Mooney
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 1:06 PM
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] thank you, thank you, thanks for wild BBC party 
!!!!!!!


> Area Birders:
> If  you were at the Bristol Bird Club Regional Christmas Party Saturday 
> night, you don't need to be told how exciting that was.  But the rest of 
> you should know what you missed.
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> We had 52 birders turnout for a party that lasted five hours!  President 
> Rack Cross wrote down each person's name on a legal pad.  We'll publish 
> the list later this week.  Dave and Dee Worley have the list at this time.
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> Let's have some real thank yous for those of you who worked so hard to 
> pull this off:
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> Bob, Ellen and Charlie Parker welcomed us into their beautiful home and 
> had everything just perfect.  We could not have expected more.  Charlie 
> has already asked his mother if they can host the party next year ;-)  She 
> wrote and told me so !  Charlie is a trooper, isn't he ?
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> Janice Martin did all of our shopping for drinks, paper plates, 
> plasticware and cups.  You  name it.  She was a senior elf managing the 
> gift list as Santa came and and turned the party into a riot.  She shopped 
> for gifts for the children of birders and was our BBC super santa pal.
>
> Diana Worley was our year-around gift shopper who made sure that there 
> were gifts bought all year long in order for santa to care for all of the 
> little ones.  Dee is another BBC super santa pal.
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> Dave Worley who is our ever-loving jolly old elf is the guy who always has 
> the big bag of toys.  He has the red face and belly like a bowl full of 
> jelly.  Actually, if he keeps losing weight, Rack will have to be Santa 
> next year.  Dave has a sore knee from all the lap sitting he conducted.
>
> Ron Harrington brought a cooler full of ice.  Ron also brought his ukulele 
> and provided wonderful music as a house full of people joined in Christmas 
> caroles, popular songs and Nina Gates even danced in the kitchen floor 
> while Mary Jane Erwin, Wallace Coffey and Ron sang early American folks 
> music.  Ron entertained us as a walking vocalist singing all kinds of 
> great numbers room to room.  He had a contest with prizes for those 
> families that wanted to jump into a bird name quiz.  It was shocking how 
> everyone loved that.  I was astonished.  Ron stayed for the late-night 
> cleanup crew.  Ron must have run a ream of copy paper with music for those 
> who scrambled to get copies of songs for which they did not know all the 
> words.
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> It was Dexter and Lynda Newman who provided us a state-of-the-mall 
> professional Santa Clause suit for Santa to wear for a few hours.   We 
> don't have enough money to rent an outfit like that.  It is the absolute 
> best you can ever imagine.
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> The Bristol Tennessee Fire Department provided us with firemen's helmets 
> so Larry McDaniel (former Florida Division of Forestry firefighter) could 
> standby wearing the helmet and prepared with a fire extinguiser. 
> Inspector Cross (Kingsport City Fire Department) wore a helmet and watched 
> for safety purposes as Tennessee Ornithological Society President-Elect 
> Danny Gatty lighted a candle to tie our party to the rest of TOS members 
> across the state.
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> Larry also headed up the cleanup crew, bringing a box of trashbags.  By 
> the time we had left the Parkers, the house was nearly spotless and you 
> had to actually look very closely to tell we had even had a party there 
> all night.  Bags of trash were filled from every room and several members 
> took one or two bags home with them so the Parker's trashcans were not 
> running over Sunday morning.
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> It was handsdown for the best food ever at a Bristol Bird Club event.  It 
> took two rooms to display all the food.  We covered ever available inch of 
> the kitchen breakfast nook table, cabinet tops, stove tops and most of the 
> dinning room table.  We had different kinds of shrimp dishes, salads 
> beyond imagination, pork, great breds, buns and rolls, plate of ever 
> imaginable offering.  We spent hours talking about how good the food was.
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> Wallace worked two weeks determing the 20 best bird discoveries of the 
> year and presented the list.  He shopped two days to find the right types 
> of prizes and award trophies for all winners.  He shopped for and bought 
> five birdfeeders for gifts and had a drawing for a 50 pound bag of 
> sunflower seed won by Larry.  He presented the awards and caused trouble 
> all night.
>
> Several members kept the party hype and fun going on Bristol Birds Net.
>
> Don Holt took the Birder of the Year Plaque to an engraver to have the 
> 2003 birder of the year award engraved and brought back along with our 
> traditional Daffy Duck padded toilet seat to be worn at this year's party 
> by the 2004 Birder of the Year winner.
>
> President Rack Cross and family drove to Johnson City to personally escort 
> the TOS President-Elect's party from the Holiday Inn on North Roan Street 
> to the Parker house and introduced them room-by-room to party-goers.
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> Dan and Laurie Mooney drove up from Knoxville.  Charlie Muise, president 
> of Knoxville TOS Chapter came from his home at Maryville.  Ken Dubke and 
> Gaddy came from the Chattanooga Chapter of TOS.  We had several members 
> from the Russell County Bird Club and the Lee & Lois Herndon Chapter of 
> TOS at Elizabethton.
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> Janet Brown, Joan Harrington, Janice Martin and Ellen Parker coordinated 
> the food display and cleaned up spills and the kitchen following the 
> party.
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> Larry was the coordinator of arrangements between the Parker family and 
> BBC.
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> When the party was over and it came down to the last discoveries,  We had 
> an assortment of pictures, an umbrella, and a couple of dishes that were 
> left behind.
> You may e-mail me at wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and claim your loss and 
> come to the BBC Christmas Count Planning Meeting to be held on Dec. 21 at 
> the lodge next to Steele Creek Park Nature Center to pick up whatever you 
> left behind.  Any items not claimed and/or picked up by the close of the 
> BBC Dec. 21 meeting can be taken by anyone who attends or will be 
> deposited in the nearest park trash container.
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> We want to close by thanking everyone who cooked all the wonderful dishes. 
> We want to say thanks a bundle for all the gifts you bought, wrapped and 
> brought.  Finally we say thanks for the great party, your Christmas cheers 
> and those of you who came from distances up to a 100 miles or more, 
> including the ones who came 200 miles from Chattanooga to have a great 
> time.  It was good getting to know everyone and sharing our Christmas 
> spirt.
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> Merry Christmas to one and all.....
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> Wallace Coffey
> on Behalf of the Officers and Leadership
> Bristol Bird Club
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