A new home, well atleast a new rental home!

Well once again I'm late with an update, but we moved in that time period so it's kind of an excuse. The new house is great. We have way more space and modern appliances and a great view across Lake Champlain to the East with the Green Mountains as the backdrop. We have lots of room outdoors too and a big beach area for the guys to go rock hunting. The boys found a rock with a bunch of quartz crystals on it out there and spend hours trying to chip it off. It's very

cool. They are really adapting to this whole adventure. we also have room for guests now. It's only 12 hours from GH to here so I don't want any excuses!

Jo is back in Michigan for two weeks with the boys. June's health is slipping and Dawn needed some time to go to training for her new job. She also needed some time with her family together. So Jo talk

ed to her Super' and they let her go home for a few weeks. We'll have to take it week by week after that, but we'll try and get her home every weekend to see her mom. I fly home next Wednesday, yes you read that right, next Wednesday the busiest flying day of the year. it should be an adventure.

On a different front, we ordered our season ski passes to Smugglers Notch a week ago. I'm excited to be able to go skiing so easily here and on real mountains. The snow is already flying in the upper elevations. You can check out the snow reports on Stowe and Smuggs web sites. They are both claiming that they will open on November 23rd so you never know. You can bet I'll get out there every Friday off that I have. I'm guessing some of those Fridays we can convince the principal to let our kids out of school at noon so they can enjoy the mountains. It's really pretty neat to get up one morning and see the mountain tops covered in snow. I tried to get a picture of Mt Mansfield (Stowe

) but you can only just tell it's got snow on it. Just to let you all know what we are in for here, everyone still gets snow tires for the winter here. So me and my Mini are going to get some good ol' knobbys pretty soon! I was thinking of close pinning a few playing cards on the spokes too for that little extra bit of flair!

I'm going to post some pictures put in this now and that takes some time to upload on my dial-up. so I'm going to keep watching my Band of Brothers DVD's while doing that. Catch you all later and have a happy holiday.

JB