Monday, June 29, 2009
Finally, right?
I hope people will still read this. Sorry it's been such a long time. We've been doing a lot of stuff and keeping really busy, I've just been kind of lazy. I don't really like posting without pictures, and, like Ben, we always forget our camera. The pictures below are from a little walk we went on yesterday above Boise and just below Bogus Basin, which is a ski resort about 17 miles outside of Boise. I hope people in New York are still reading this. If not then I just don't know what to say. Enjoy the photos!
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Finally a nice day for a bike ride
Hey everyone,
Sorry it's been so long since our last post, but we've been pretty busy since we've come home. Finding work, hanging out with friends and family, it's been great. It's been pretty nice here since we've come back, but only on a couple days has it been truly nice for a good bike ride. Unfortunately, Don, no burger and beer this time, but it's coming soon. Our first bike ride was on Sunday and we just rode over to our friends house and helped them with some gardening for a bit. Today was truly beautiful though. We rode from our place through downtown to the greenbelt, which follows the Boise River through town and also out of town for a total of 27 miles. Only crazy people bike that far. There's 3 parks in a row along the river, Julia Davis, Ann Morrison, and Albertson's Park. Colleen and I got married in Albertson's park, so some of you have been there. Also on one side of the river is the BSU campus. We just rode around for a while then stopped and cooled off by the river for a few then rode home. Can't beat almost 75 degrees and a nice bike ride by a cool river. Here are some photos!
This is the US Bank Building, which is the talles building in Boise. I only show a picture of it to comepare with the next photo.
Behind the painted wall here is what's supposed to be the tallest building in Boise, but instead I think is the shortest. Behind the wall is a pit about 30 feet deep where they had started to lay the foundation for a building but then the guy who was funding it or something ran out of money. It's been there for a very long time. They finally covered it up with this fence a few years ago, and had a really nice mural painted on it that was done by the local high schools, but then I guess they changed it and now it's kind of lame. Not near as pretty to look at as it was before.
This is the Grove. It's really neat in the late spring and summer because in the middle of the "park", there's a really big fountain that's on all the time. This is part of 8th street, and this is where they have the market on Saturdays which I'm really excited to go to again. Plus there's a really good restaurant right there and it's nice to eat there in the summer and sit outside and watch people.
This is sort of a random picture I took while we were riding. Actually, most of these are. Anyways, this is about a block or a two up from the last photo, and I mainly took it trying to get the flag in. Boise's all about food. There may not be as much diversity as New York City, but it's pretty good for Idaho. Just downtown there are over 80 different places to eat, from the hot dog stand to fine dining. Sushi, steaks, pizza, Indian, plus plenty of bars in case you want a liquid meal.
This photo here is Julia Davis Park. If you closely in the back ground, the building you can see through the trees is the Boise Art Museum, which is sometimes really lame, but sometimes they have really cool stuff come through.
Here we are. BSU is in the back ground here.
I had originally stepped into a really shallow part of the river, and sai to Colleen, "It's not cold at all." So then I cam up with the grand idea to just walk on out, and while it's only a little bit above my ankles, it was super cold once I got out further, but still nice and refreshing.
Here's Colleen, she didn't want to go in the water because she didn't want o get her shoes wet. She's kind of a ninny.
Here she is doing a balancing act.
Here's me on my sweet bike on a bridge over the river. I took a picture of Colleen on her bike, but she didn't like the picture so she said I wasn't allowed to post it.
And that's that. Hope everyone in New York is doing great, we miss you all very much. And we're looking forward to seeing the rest of my family in May and then again in July hopefully!
Sorry it's been so long since our last post, but we've been pretty busy since we've come home. Finding work, hanging out with friends and family, it's been great. It's been pretty nice here since we've come back, but only on a couple days has it been truly nice for a good bike ride. Unfortunately, Don, no burger and beer this time, but it's coming soon. Our first bike ride was on Sunday and we just rode over to our friends house and helped them with some gardening for a bit. Today was truly beautiful though. We rode from our place through downtown to the greenbelt, which follows the Boise River through town and also out of town for a total of 27 miles. Only crazy people bike that far. There's 3 parks in a row along the river, Julia Davis, Ann Morrison, and Albertson's Park. Colleen and I got married in Albertson's park, so some of you have been there. Also on one side of the river is the BSU campus. We just rode around for a while then stopped and cooled off by the river for a few then rode home. Can't beat almost 75 degrees and a nice bike ride by a cool river. Here are some photos!
This is the US Bank Building, which is the talles building in Boise. I only show a picture of it to comepare with the next photo.
Behind the painted wall here is what's supposed to be the tallest building in Boise, but instead I think is the shortest. Behind the wall is a pit about 30 feet deep where they had started to lay the foundation for a building but then the guy who was funding it or something ran out of money. It's been there for a very long time. They finally covered it up with this fence a few years ago, and had a really nice mural painted on it that was done by the local high schools, but then I guess they changed it and now it's kind of lame. Not near as pretty to look at as it was before.
This is the Grove. It's really neat in the late spring and summer because in the middle of the "park", there's a really big fountain that's on all the time. This is part of 8th street, and this is where they have the market on Saturdays which I'm really excited to go to again. Plus there's a really good restaurant right there and it's nice to eat there in the summer and sit outside and watch people.
This is sort of a random picture I took while we were riding. Actually, most of these are. Anyways, this is about a block or a two up from the last photo, and I mainly took it trying to get the flag in. Boise's all about food. There may not be as much diversity as New York City, but it's pretty good for Idaho. Just downtown there are over 80 different places to eat, from the hot dog stand to fine dining. Sushi, steaks, pizza, Indian, plus plenty of bars in case you want a liquid meal.
This photo here is Julia Davis Park. If you closely in the back ground, the building you can see through the trees is the Boise Art Museum, which is sometimes really lame, but sometimes they have really cool stuff come through.
Here we are. BSU is in the back ground here.
I had originally stepped into a really shallow part of the river, and sai to Colleen, "It's not cold at all." So then I cam up with the grand idea to just walk on out, and while it's only a little bit above my ankles, it was super cold once I got out further, but still nice and refreshing.
Here's Colleen, she didn't want to go in the water because she didn't want o get her shoes wet. She's kind of a ninny.
Here she is doing a balancing act.
Here's me on my sweet bike on a bridge over the river. I took a picture of Colleen on her bike, but she didn't like the picture so she said I wasn't allowed to post it.
And that's that. Hope everyone in New York is doing great, we miss you all very much. And we're looking forward to seeing the rest of my family in May and then again in July hopefully!
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
The most awful cross-country drive-EVER
Hi everyone,
So Colleen and made it safe and sound to Idaho Falls on Tuesday evening. Here's a state by state breakdown of our trip.
New York-We left early in the morning, around 8m. We sat and talked with Anna and Trevor for a bit, then they saw us off. The drive out of New York was pretty nice, no rain or anything, but it was cloudy.
Pennsylvania-Not much happening here, quick trip through the state to Ohio, started raining a little bit.
Ohio-Almost the entire drive through Ohio was bad. Lots of punding rain with little visibility and very high winds. We found out as we were leaving Ohio and entering Indiana that the area we had just driven through had tornado warnings for pretty much the whole area we had just been in.
Indiana-Nothing much must have happened here, since I can't even remember driving through the state. It was still a bit windy, I think, though.
Illionois-Thankfully we avoided Chicago, which when we drove through it on the way to New York it was pretty bad. But since we went a different way this time, we were able to avoid it.
Iowa-I actually really liked Iowa. We drove as far as Grinnell, IA on the first day. That's almost 1100 miles. We spent the night in a hotel and left abour 9 the next morning. The drive during the day was really nice, lots of rolling hills, and there was one spot where we could see windmills along the side of the highway. Huge things, and in my opinion, really quite beautiful looking.
Nebraska-No offense to Nebraska, but it has to be by far the worst state in the country to drive through. It's long, flat, and there's almost nothing to look at right at the end of winter. Maybe it's different in any other season, but this time, it was pretty bad.
Wyoming-Wyoming made me swear that I would never, ever, drive through that state unless it was sometime between May-August. Maybe not even then. We started out in Wyoming doing pretty good. Nebraska was over, so at least we had that going for us. Our goal was to make it to Evanston, which is about 10 miles or so from the Utah border. We passed Cheyenne no problem, but then we started climbing in elevation. Getting closer to Laramie, a really thick fog set in, reducing visiblity to almost nothing, so we decided to stop in Laramie for the night. About 3 hours short of our goal, but better safe than sorry. Laramie was nice, we ate dinner at an actual restaurant, instead of the car, which was really nice, then we went and got a hotel. We got up the next morning at 7, and it had snowed a few inches. Not too bad though. I checked the road report, and it said blowing snow with some slick spots, but overall seemed pretty good. We set off, and about 10 miles outside of Laramie is when it started. Really high winds blowing the powdery snow from the night before all over the place. Blinding white to the point where you could slow down to 25 or less in spots due to the fact that you couldn't see any further than about 5 feet in front of the car. It cleared up after a bit, and then it got even worse a little bit down the road. More winds blowing soft snow all over the place, only this time there was about an inch or so of snow on the highway, which we didn't encounter the first time. Slowed down drastically, and lots of hills so it was kind of treacherous. Then it cleared up for a bit. Then it got even worse a little bit down the road. More winds blowing the soft snow all over the place, snow still covering the highway, only this time on the spots where there wasn't snow on the highway, it was black ice, which is lots of fun to drive on. So we're going nice and slow, but still fast enough that we needed to pass a semi. Only about 35mph. We passed the semi just fine, then as I was changing lanes to get back into the right lane, we must have hit a patch of ice or some thing, but the u-haul trailer just real suddenly whipped to the left and started dragging us toward the median that separates the 4 lanes of the highway. We slid all over the place, ending up in the median. But, thanks to my superior driving skills, we ended up facing the direction we wanted to face, and the u-haul trailer didn't flip. Thankfully there weren't any other cars around us when this happened, or it would have really bad. In case some of you haven't driven through Wyoming before, there are very few places to exit the highway and change your pants if you need to. Good thing I didn't need to. Can't say the same for Colleen, but she managed. Just kidding, but it was pretty damn scary. So a little bit further down the raod, still the same weather and road conditions, we come upon a group of semis that were just stopped in the highway, in both lanes. So we stopped in the right lane, and a semi was stopped next to us with the very end of the trailer viewable from the drivers side window. We're stopped, waiting for traffic to move, when all of a sudden Colleen says. "Oh shoot!" Only she didn't say shoot, but you know what I mean. We were both looking in the side mirrors behind us watching as another semi is barreling down the highway directly towards us, and didn't seem like he was slowing down. Let me remind you that it was extremely low visibility, so this guy had very little time to react. He switched lanes and tried to slow down as much as he could, but it still wasn't enough. He slammed into the semi next to us, with the collision happening right next to the drivers side window, sending pices of his truck flying. All in all, it wasn't that bad, no one got hurt, and neither of the truckes were too badly damaged, but it was still pretty awesome to see it happen. When I saw awesome I mean terrifying. Then the wind died down for a bit and I realized why the semis were stopped in the road-they were putting chains on. Now, you know you probably shouldn't be driving when the semis are just stopping in the middle of the highway to put chains on. We only had 10 miles to Evanston, which was the next exit, so I put it in 4 wheel drive and drove about 25. About 5 miles down the highway, the weather cleared up and the raod was clear. It was a bit wet, but almost no snow, no more wind, and no ice. It was pretty crazy. Wyoming sucks almost as bad as Nebraska. At least something was happening in Wyoming to make it exciting.
Utah-Since the waether didn't really clear up until we were practically in Utah, I must say that's nice to see actual mountains again. No offense, Catskills people, but nothing in the US compares to the Rockies. Utah was pretty uneventful other than the landscape. We didn't stop at all.
Idaho-Almost home again!
We miss everyone in New York a lot, and we're excited to see west coast people again. Hope everyone enjoyed this post.
So Colleen and made it safe and sound to Idaho Falls on Tuesday evening. Here's a state by state breakdown of our trip.
New York-We left early in the morning, around 8m. We sat and talked with Anna and Trevor for a bit, then they saw us off. The drive out of New York was pretty nice, no rain or anything, but it was cloudy.
Pennsylvania-Not much happening here, quick trip through the state to Ohio, started raining a little bit.
Ohio-Almost the entire drive through Ohio was bad. Lots of punding rain with little visibility and very high winds. We found out as we were leaving Ohio and entering Indiana that the area we had just driven through had tornado warnings for pretty much the whole area we had just been in.
Indiana-Nothing much must have happened here, since I can't even remember driving through the state. It was still a bit windy, I think, though.
Illionois-Thankfully we avoided Chicago, which when we drove through it on the way to New York it was pretty bad. But since we went a different way this time, we were able to avoid it.
Iowa-I actually really liked Iowa. We drove as far as Grinnell, IA on the first day. That's almost 1100 miles. We spent the night in a hotel and left abour 9 the next morning. The drive during the day was really nice, lots of rolling hills, and there was one spot where we could see windmills along the side of the highway. Huge things, and in my opinion, really quite beautiful looking.
Nebraska-No offense to Nebraska, but it has to be by far the worst state in the country to drive through. It's long, flat, and there's almost nothing to look at right at the end of winter. Maybe it's different in any other season, but this time, it was pretty bad.
Wyoming-Wyoming made me swear that I would never, ever, drive through that state unless it was sometime between May-August. Maybe not even then. We started out in Wyoming doing pretty good. Nebraska was over, so at least we had that going for us. Our goal was to make it to Evanston, which is about 10 miles or so from the Utah border. We passed Cheyenne no problem, but then we started climbing in elevation. Getting closer to Laramie, a really thick fog set in, reducing visiblity to almost nothing, so we decided to stop in Laramie for the night. About 3 hours short of our goal, but better safe than sorry. Laramie was nice, we ate dinner at an actual restaurant, instead of the car, which was really nice, then we went and got a hotel. We got up the next morning at 7, and it had snowed a few inches. Not too bad though. I checked the road report, and it said blowing snow with some slick spots, but overall seemed pretty good. We set off, and about 10 miles outside of Laramie is when it started. Really high winds blowing the powdery snow from the night before all over the place. Blinding white to the point where you could slow down to 25 or less in spots due to the fact that you couldn't see any further than about 5 feet in front of the car. It cleared up after a bit, and then it got even worse a little bit down the road. More winds blowing soft snow all over the place, only this time there was about an inch or so of snow on the highway, which we didn't encounter the first time. Slowed down drastically, and lots of hills so it was kind of treacherous. Then it cleared up for a bit. Then it got even worse a little bit down the road. More winds blowing the soft snow all over the place, snow still covering the highway, only this time on the spots where there wasn't snow on the highway, it was black ice, which is lots of fun to drive on. So we're going nice and slow, but still fast enough that we needed to pass a semi. Only about 35mph. We passed the semi just fine, then as I was changing lanes to get back into the right lane, we must have hit a patch of ice or some thing, but the u-haul trailer just real suddenly whipped to the left and started dragging us toward the median that separates the 4 lanes of the highway. We slid all over the place, ending up in the median. But, thanks to my superior driving skills, we ended up facing the direction we wanted to face, and the u-haul trailer didn't flip. Thankfully there weren't any other cars around us when this happened, or it would have really bad. In case some of you haven't driven through Wyoming before, there are very few places to exit the highway and change your pants if you need to. Good thing I didn't need to. Can't say the same for Colleen, but she managed. Just kidding, but it was pretty damn scary. So a little bit further down the raod, still the same weather and road conditions, we come upon a group of semis that were just stopped in the highway, in both lanes. So we stopped in the right lane, and a semi was stopped next to us with the very end of the trailer viewable from the drivers side window. We're stopped, waiting for traffic to move, when all of a sudden Colleen says. "Oh shoot!" Only she didn't say shoot, but you know what I mean. We were both looking in the side mirrors behind us watching as another semi is barreling down the highway directly towards us, and didn't seem like he was slowing down. Let me remind you that it was extremely low visibility, so this guy had very little time to react. He switched lanes and tried to slow down as much as he could, but it still wasn't enough. He slammed into the semi next to us, with the collision happening right next to the drivers side window, sending pices of his truck flying. All in all, it wasn't that bad, no one got hurt, and neither of the truckes were too badly damaged, but it was still pretty awesome to see it happen. When I saw awesome I mean terrifying. Then the wind died down for a bit and I realized why the semis were stopped in the road-they were putting chains on. Now, you know you probably shouldn't be driving when the semis are just stopping in the middle of the highway to put chains on. We only had 10 miles to Evanston, which was the next exit, so I put it in 4 wheel drive and drove about 25. About 5 miles down the highway, the weather cleared up and the raod was clear. It was a bit wet, but almost no snow, no more wind, and no ice. It was pretty crazy. Wyoming sucks almost as bad as Nebraska. At least something was happening in Wyoming to make it exciting.
Utah-Since the waether didn't really clear up until we were practically in Utah, I must say that's nice to see actual mountains again. No offense, Catskills people, but nothing in the US compares to the Rockies. Utah was pretty uneventful other than the landscape. We didn't stop at all.
Idaho-Almost home again!
We miss everyone in New York a lot, and we're excited to see west coast people again. Hope everyone enjoyed this post.
Monday, February 2, 2009
Skiing fun and moving back to Boise
Hey everyone,
So in case you haven't heard, Colleen and I are moving back to Boise next month. We're not sure on the exact date, but we're trying to shoot for March 7. Pretty sweet, huh? This morning we were eating breakfast and getting ready to go to work, Colleen worked at the candlemakers today and I was going to our regular job when our boss called and said to take the day off. It sucks, but I went out and had some fun, kind of. I threw my pack together and made a sandwich and threw the skis I'm borrowing into the car and took Colleen to work and then I drove to Minekill State Park, which is a place I had been hiking to back in October. I had heard that they had groomed trails there, and on our property here there's only so many times you can go skiing before it all starts looking the same. I parked at the NY State Power Authority Station which is about 1 mile up the road from the park entrance. There's a trail that starts there, and I was planning on doing about 8 miles round trip. I park the car, grap my pack, put the ski boots on and grabbed the skis and walked to the trailhead. Then I discovered that the trails aren't groomed, and it didn't look like anybody had been skiing there for the past week or two. It hasn't snowed here since Friday, so I didn't even have old ski tracks to follow. I started to break the trail, made it the mile to the park entrance and past the Ranger Station, breaking trail the whole way. I got to the next trail that I was going on, that would take me the next 3 miles to a waterfall that I had hiked to before only from a different direction. I discovered this new trail started out going downhill on a pretty steep slope surrounded by trees, and I"m not quite good enough yet on the skis that I was afraid if I tried I'd end up wrapped around a tree. I took the skis off and walked down until it was flat. Put the skis back on once it got flat again, and went maybe 1/2 mile before the trail started to slope upwards, again with a really steep incline. I was tired, and I wanted to continue, so I took the skis off and strapped them to my pack, then continued on my way. I made it about another 1 1/2-2 miles on the trail that varied from flat to uphill, trudging through foot and a half deep snow before I threw in the towel before I had a heart attack. I stopped and took a rest, then threw my pack back on and went back the way I came, walking the whole way until I got back to the ranger station and the flat ground before I could ski again. I had alot of fun and got a great workout, but they shouldn't mark a trail as a ski trail unless you can actually ski on it. Jerks. Here are some pictures. If you go back to my posting from October 12th, you can get an idea of how much the mandscape changes in winter.
The above photo was taken from about the same point on the trail where I had taken one back in October when I was there.
This is a really big tree that had fallen over and about half of it was hanging over a stream about 20 feet down. It was pretty neat.
I don't know if you can see these that well, but all those little dark spots are turkeys. I took this as I was about to pull in our driveway, and there were hundreds of them in the field across the road. Well, that's all for now. Bye
So in case you haven't heard, Colleen and I are moving back to Boise next month. We're not sure on the exact date, but we're trying to shoot for March 7. Pretty sweet, huh? This morning we were eating breakfast and getting ready to go to work, Colleen worked at the candlemakers today and I was going to our regular job when our boss called and said to take the day off. It sucks, but I went out and had some fun, kind of. I threw my pack together and made a sandwich and threw the skis I'm borrowing into the car and took Colleen to work and then I drove to Minekill State Park, which is a place I had been hiking to back in October. I had heard that they had groomed trails there, and on our property here there's only so many times you can go skiing before it all starts looking the same. I parked at the NY State Power Authority Station which is about 1 mile up the road from the park entrance. There's a trail that starts there, and I was planning on doing about 8 miles round trip. I park the car, grap my pack, put the ski boots on and grabbed the skis and walked to the trailhead. Then I discovered that the trails aren't groomed, and it didn't look like anybody had been skiing there for the past week or two. It hasn't snowed here since Friday, so I didn't even have old ski tracks to follow. I started to break the trail, made it the mile to the park entrance and past the Ranger Station, breaking trail the whole way. I got to the next trail that I was going on, that would take me the next 3 miles to a waterfall that I had hiked to before only from a different direction. I discovered this new trail started out going downhill on a pretty steep slope surrounded by trees, and I"m not quite good enough yet on the skis that I was afraid if I tried I'd end up wrapped around a tree. I took the skis off and walked down until it was flat. Put the skis back on once it got flat again, and went maybe 1/2 mile before the trail started to slope upwards, again with a really steep incline. I was tired, and I wanted to continue, so I took the skis off and strapped them to my pack, then continued on my way. I made it about another 1 1/2-2 miles on the trail that varied from flat to uphill, trudging through foot and a half deep snow before I threw in the towel before I had a heart attack. I stopped and took a rest, then threw my pack back on and went back the way I came, walking the whole way until I got back to the ranger station and the flat ground before I could ski again. I had alot of fun and got a great workout, but they shouldn't mark a trail as a ski trail unless you can actually ski on it. Jerks. Here are some pictures. If you go back to my posting from October 12th, you can get an idea of how much the mandscape changes in winter.
The above photo was taken from about the same point on the trail where I had taken one back in October when I was there. 
This is a really big tree that had fallen over and about half of it was hanging over a stream about 20 feet down. It was pretty neat.
I don't know if you can see these that well, but all those little dark spots are turkeys. I took this as I was about to pull in our driveway, and there were hundreds of them in the field across the road. Well, that's all for now. Bye
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Sledding Fun!
Hello everyone! Sorry it's been so long since my last post, but there really hasn't been too much to write about. It was really cold a couple weeks ago, with the wind chill it was getting as low as -20, so that kinda sucked. This past Friday was really warm, almost 40, but then yesterday and today it was really cold, in the single digits and the teens. We've been out cross country skiing a couple times. Our boss and his wife have some that they've let us borrow, and I had forgot how much fun it is. We were planning to go somewhere today but then we decided against it since the weather guy said it was going to be really cold. Next weekend I'm going to go to a neat place I've been hiking before that has groomed trails and spend the day out skiing. Our house-mates husband has an old pair of skis that he's going to let me borrow, so that's pretty cool. It wasn't too cold today though, so we went over to Joan's and went sledding. It was a lot of fun. Here are some photos.
Here's Joan getting ready.
This is Vera and Lane. They were probably laughing at Colleen.
Here I am shredding on kid-size snowboard. It took me about 7 tries just to stay on long enough to get to the jump, and after that, I always fell off.
Colleen said I wasn't allowed to take pictures of her wearing the bright orange snowsuit. Yea right.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Here's Joan getting ready.
This is Vera and Lane. They were probably laughing at Colleen.
Here I am shredding on kid-size snowboard. It took me about 7 tries just to stay on long enough to get to the jump, and after that, I always fell off.
This is Lane, we all hurt our a@@es pretty bad on the landing.
Colleen said I wasn't allowed to take pictures of her wearing the bright orange snowsuit. Yea right.
Hope everyone is doing well!
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
All I Want For Christmas is to Not Get Stitches! Oops, too late.
Hey everyone. So today for work I drove to Albany to pick up some more steel for a hammock that we're working on, and I get back to work and think to myself, "Should I get the steel out of the back of the truck first, or should I go eat lunch?" I decided I was hungry enough to eat lunch first, so I parked the truck by the studio and walked down to the house to eat. After lunch, I'm walking back up to the studio to get the steel out of the truck, looking down as I walked in case there was some ice or something I could slip on, when out of nowhere the steel decides it's going to hit me in the mouth. It hurt like hell, so I put my hand to mouth and ran my tongue along my teeth to make sure none of my teeth fell out, thankful that they were all still there. I pulled my hand away and quickly realized that almost my entire hand was covered in blood. I ran inside the studio and into Colleen, who heard the war cry the steel let out before it decided to gash my mouth open. I grabbed a towel and we headed to the family practice in Stamford where Colleen's Aunt works. Unfortunately, she wasn't in, but the other doctor was, so I got 3 stitches in my lower lip and a tetanus shot, and an order to eat soft foods for the next few days. Only soft foods?!?! Normally that wouldn't be a problem, but with Christmas in two days that's going to be really difficult. At least I get the stitches out on Friday, unless Aunt Sue looks at them before then and takes them out earlier. I was going to post a picture of the stitches, but they're pretty gross looking so I decided not to. Our friends Grace and Chris came and visited a couple weekends ago. It was pretty cool. We saw a coyote one morning when we were out for a walk and it scared Grace. It was kinda funny. Here are a couple pictures from that:
Hope everyone has a good Christmas!
Hope everyone has a good Christmas!
Monday, December 1, 2008
New House
Hey everyone, here are some pictures of our "new" house that we're living in. Part of the house was built in the 1850's, then the rest of it was built around the 1870's. It's 3 floors, 8 rooms, two bathrooms, a living room, dining room, and a kitchen. It's pretty sweet. Colleen and I have two rooms that connect on the first floor, so we have a bedroom and our own private living room area. Our friend and "landlady" that we're living with teaches in Brooklyn for most of the week, so we pretty much have the run of the place. We're going to help her do some work on the house, our first project is helping her get one of the bathrooms ready to get the rest of the stuff installed in it. We'll be knocking a wall down to make room for a washer and dryer, and we're going to sand the floor to get that ready for some new tile to be laid. We're really excited. There's 26 acres for us to play on, plus a pond that will hopefully provide some swimming fun once it gets warm again. That's about it for now.
This is the front of the house from across the road. Some of the windows were being replaced today so didn't want to take too many photos of the front of the house just in case you all thought I was living in a house with no windows in part of it. So, as soon as the windows are done, I'll take a couple more pictures of the front.
Here's the back of the house from in front of the pond.
This is from a little ways up the hill behind the house. You can see part of the pond through the trees in the photo.
This one is looking from one edge of the pond towards the back of the house.
This is the front of the house from across the road. Some of the windows were being replaced today so didn't want to take too many photos of the front of the house just in case you all thought I was living in a house with no windows in part of it. So, as soon as the windows are done, I'll take a couple more pictures of the front. 
Here's the back of the house from in front of the pond.
This is from a little ways up the hill behind the house. You can see part of the pond through the trees in the photo.
This one is looking from one edge of the pond towards the back of the house.
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