Cully getting comfortable

 

Skiing at Blueberry Lake

We had a great time skiing today. It was sunny, about 12 degrees, no wind and the company was great

Cold Snowy Morning

Some pictures I took this morning. Always good to have the woodstove cranking on a morning when the thermometer reads 5 degrees.

Getting Close

The first semester of my final year is drawing to a close. It is very difficult for me to believe that we have had 13 weeks of classes. And many lab reports, homeworks, quizzes and tests later we are almost done. We have one week of classes and one week of final exams left. It has been a very difficult semester. We are in the midst of working on our final project in Surveying. It has been very disheartening. Several times we have had to go out and reshoot some of our shots as they were not as accurate as they needed to be. If the temperature were still in the 60s with no snow on the ground it would be no problem. But it is December. It is cold and there is snow on the ground. Don't get me wrong I really love surveying. I hope to do lots of it when I finish. But anytime you are working you like the conditions to be favorable. They aren't always and that is what we have been experiencing the past week or so. If I can post my project for you all to see when it is done I will. I'll ask one of my more computer savvy classmates to show me how. I am lucky as far as finals go. I only have scheduled each day. They run from Tuesday to Friday. I should be exempted from the Wednesday final in Hydraulics as my grade is high enough to not have to take the final. That is the only class where we can get exempted from the final. I am not sure that I will make Dean's List this semester. It will be close.
Once again Leigh has been wonderful during my schooling. I wouldn't have been able to this without her constant support. Thank you.

What Else?

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I am sure we all have many things to be thankful for. So enjoy your day. We are going to go cross country skiing today.

www.blueberrylakeskivt.com

This is the website for the place we go skiing. There are 2 pictures of Leigh and I on the website. Leigh is wearing a light blue coat.

Happy Happy Birthday!!!

 

Hope you have a great day Cody.

Eggs

 

Our hens are really starting to produce. This is from the last three days. The most, so far, in one day is 20 eggs from 28 hens. There are 25 new layers and 3 that we have had for a few years. The oldest hen we have is a gray banty. She is probably 5 years old. Leigh sells most of the eggs at school. I sell some to my classmates. Two fifty a dozen. Not a bad deal for fresh eggs.

The Mullet

I'm sorry to report that Barry Melrose got fired as Coach of the Lightning. I am hoping he will go back to ESPN and talk hockey. I put him right up there with Don Cherry.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3703077&campaign=rss&source=NHLHeadlines

Squash Dog

Leigh's sister Lesley is in town for a few days from Colorado. She came bearing gifts. As you can see by the pictures it is a fun gift.

Making Cider

 

 

 

 

Leigh and I pressed some of the apples we had picked a couple weeks ago. Leigh would cut the apples in half and put them in the hopper of the grinder. I then ground the apples up. Not very fine-actualsly quite chunky. The ground up apple fell into a cheesecloth type bag that was held by the round part of the press. That goes under the press and viola.....cider. Very delicious.

Check this out

Be sure to click your mouse all around the room.

http://www.palinaspresident.us/

 

here is the birthday boy in a Labor Day Parade in Meeteetse.

Frosty Morning

 

Leigh and I put together this little fall display. We thought it would be nice to see as we drove up the driveway each time.

 

Leo and Cully playing in the newly tilled garden behind the house. On the right you can see the broccoli is still going strong.

 

Leigh planted these two maples many years ago with the thought being they would be used to string up the hammock. We have a great hammock strung between those trees. It is a good place to relax on a sunny afternoon.

 

Another beautiful autumn day here in Vermont. The colors this fall have been great.

Apple Heaven

 
 
 
 


Leigh and I picked quite a few apples today. I moved the ladder around the tree and Leigh climbed up to pick some really nice apples from the upper branches. It took us just over an hour to pick those pictured here. We bought a fruit press on ebay the other day. Hopefully it will arrive soon so we can grind up these apples and have some cider.

We are still going to dry some more apples in the dehydrator. I tilled up the garden close by the house today. There is still some broccoli left in that garden. Next post I will show the tilled up garden. Sorry if it is snowing where you live today. Bright sunny warm day here in Vermont.

Pizza By Leigh

 
 
 
 

 
 
 

Leigh made this delicious pizza last weekend. There was not much leftover from that meal.