Curse The White Stuff That Falls From The Heavens!!!

Well I bet all of you just cannot guess what I've been doing this afternoon, into the earlier evening... Snow-blowing out 6 - 8 inches of the wettest, heaviest snow ever!
Just when things were beginning to disappear. . . bam . . . another snow fall, I don't think I will ever get the hang of how weather flows into this area. It is just unpredictable. I am used to weather moving generally from west to east, not necessarily the way it goes here. The coast causes lots of swirling type systems and that just makes it chaotic where its going to come from. This last storm actually moved out of the north east from Canada, and rolled over us moving in a south west direction. Personally I just give up trying to foretell what's gonna happen by looking at the radar maps myself. Well I suppose it could be worse, we could have moved to Fargo, Flooding and 18 inches....forget it.

At any rate, no real stories about the family since the last updates. We had parent teacher conferences and all three girls are adjusting and doing excellent in school, top notch work, and getting along with people as well.

so progressing forward, and still missing you all.

Shandara

Chloe brought home this picture the other day from school. She had Naomi help her go through our photo albums and picked out a pic of Shandara, a dog Naomi and her family had when she was she was a little girl. The media is scratch board where a white board is covered with a black crayon like wax and you scratch it off to make your marks.
I think she did an awesome job, the shaping is spot on and even the perspective of difficult things like the nose is well done, much better than I could have done.

hey a proud poppa's gotta share!

Cheers all later

Scenery Abound II

Here are the other images, It's funny that they post in the opposite order that I load them... whatever. From the top pic you can see how much of the ice we've lost around the house, I started that melt by spreading about 40 dollars worth of salt and sand a few weeks ago, now it's finally really paying off. If I had a bobcat or front loader I bet I could go out there and scrape the driveway clean today. I thought about lowering the clearance on the snow blower and using that, but then I thought about the rocks that would probably throw around. I think I'll wait and have a little patience, though you all know how hard that is for me.

Until next time.

D

Scenery Abound

Just was out taking Chloe to spend the night at a friend's house and decided to take the camera with me to shoot some pics of the scenery I was talking about last post. Apparently I can only upload 4 pics at a time so I'll be making at least two posts today. Today is beautiful, as you can see, not a cloud in the sky, high 20's low 30's and calm, with a good sun that's beating up on the ice. Get the hell out of here ice!

Big Sky Maine

Well, it's finally starting to warm up here, Thank Goodness!!
We are all so tired of the skating rink driveway. Naomi took her second spill on the ice this past weekend, this one was a doozie. Her feet went out from under her and she was flat on her back before she could even think. You know when you get that feeling that you are suddenly hanging horizontal in the air and dropped flat on your back side. Yup, it was a rough morning, but she has bounced back ok. Every muscle in her body hurt for the first few days but late yesterday she was finally starting to sound like herself.

Chloe, Fayth, and Fin are getting along very well, The move has been kind of amazing because where there used to be a lot of oil and water, now I catch them all playing together more. The only exception is maybe in the mornings getting ready for school, when they're all tired. Unfortunately I don't think I'm raising "morning persons" Maybe Infinity, but definitely not the other two.

Anyway with the warm up here it's been getting more beautiful, For most of the time since we've moved here you could not see much of the scenery while you were driving around, The snow was banked up super high along the sides of the road, I swear 12 feet or more in some places, so driving to work in the morning was alot like driving through a tunnel. Just the last few days, since the banks have dwindled, I have caught myself noticing more and more of the scenery going to and from work. At first I thought that I had just not paid attention before, then I realized that the sight was blocked before. This is a very scenic area, not terribly unlike LaCrosse in that respect, similarbut different, Where LaCrosse was beautiful, northern Maine has what I can only describe as a larger sense of perspective. When I look at the distance I'm not seeing a bluff that's a few miles away, I'm seeing a low mountain that is quite a distance away. Flat places of the country that I've lived in, Northern Minnesota and Nebraska, have a certain "Big Sky" feel to them. The sky is an obvious piece of the scenery, probably because there's so much of it. You hear the same about areas of Texas and Montana. Well I have to say that Aroostook County is an impressive combination of Big Sky and Rolling Scenery rolled together.

Added some pictures of a sunset from the other night, not a particularly fantastic sunset color wise, but a pretty typical sunset. Something about it caught me and I just needed to take some pictures, They really translate that Big Sky feeling I was talking about. Anyway...until next time.
D

We're Back Online

Well, well, well,
It's been a while hasn't it? I have to apologize for that, but I guess there's not much else I could do. After two months of searching, arguing, and pleading...there is NO high speed internet access for us where our house is located. Not right now anyhow. So as much as I hate it, we have finally succumbed to signing up for a dial up service. The slow speeds are killing me, but at least we'll be able to do things like add to this blog on a regular basis.

An update on us then... Things are going pretty well, a bit of the winter cabin fever for all of us but we're making it through, We've had a couple of rain falls but still have 2 feet of snow on the ground, and where there was no snow because of plowing or snowblowing - ice. Smooth and slick like a skating rink. Naomi took a slip the other day, not as bad as some of the ones I've seen her do in the past, kind of a slow motion jerk forward, she landed on her knee, has a pretty good bruise too. But she'll be fine.

Over the past week and a half I have been working on making a DVD movie of us to send home, we just watched the final product this morning and the girls all laughed at themselves and their antics, It's tough to be sure if they are overly pleased with themselves or embarrassed. probably a bit of both
not sure if I can get a portion of the video up here on the blog too, Maybe I'll try, (maybe not...dial up remember) Anyway I hope those of you who get a copy enjoy it, we're already working on ideas for the next one, If you have ideas let us know and we'll see what we can do.




The girls are now running along in school like nothings really changed, infact Chloe has just spent two weekends in a row spending the night at someone else's house. Fayth is making friends and Infinity has a "boyfriend" named Gavin, who she asks if she can call him at home just about every night after school, she gets really squirrly and cute when you pester her about how cute he is too... ahhhhhh young love.

Naomi is still looking for work, things are pretty tight for the whole community up here, and there are not a ton of jobs to be had beyond fast food, and we're doing fine on my income, I don't want her to go back into that unless its a last resort, The plus is (are you ready) she's finally talking about going back to school, possibly for nursing. I think that's great and I really can't wait to see it happen

Anyway, I don't want to make a long post too much longer, updates will be much more regular now
enjoy the day every one
D :)