Moving

Moving day

Hello my dear friends.  I have missed talking to you.  A lot has happened, as usual.  We are now in VT.  Our house in CT closed and we have relocated to the Green Mountain State, as VT is called.  It has been a real challenge for me in the beginning.  We got here the first day and the reality of it hit me a little bit.  We had just spent a whirlwind two weeks without a house.  At first we stayed with my brother in law Doug and his family, which was just wonderful.  We got to watch the Olympics with them and that was a hoot.  Boy, staying up until midnight every night was challenging.  One night we were all getting a little silly and judged me as I made my way out of the recliner.  I stuck my landing!!!

Do you see the recliner? I got a 10

We spent the next week house sitting for a co-worker of Nichole's in Simburry (who had a nice pool).  We were really blessed with this because I had committed to helping with Faith Quest, a VBS program that all my kids have helped with or attended the last 5 years.  That went really well and we were really glad to be participating in it.  That weekend we left CT for good to take up our quest of the pioneers here in VT.

The weather has been great and I think that us all being up here has really caused us to relax and our stress levels have gone down a little.  That is not to say that we all have not had our moments of challenge.  For me it came the first couple of days when we came up here before we had Faith Quest.  I was bothered by everything.  But our Lord was so wonderful that he sent us not just one, but a pair of hawks who made their home right in the trees next to our driveway.  They were talking back and forth all weekend long and stayed when my parents in law came for a visit.  Talk about being thankful.  I love birds and especially birds of prey so this was definitely special to me.  I felt God once again was assuring me that He was with us and that I would be all right, no matter what.

One of the cute little birds

Sean on the roof

Since we have been here, as I said the whole family seems to be taking a big breath.  Sean was having a lot of trouble just adjusting to his new boss and the way he was working.  Sean is used to order.  He works well with a plan and such things.  Things have to make sense.  The farrier he is working with is not that way.  He has been doing it for a long time (40 years) and so he is not going to be listening to a young upstart who has been doing this for 3 years.  The farrier he was working with in CT was a wonderful teacher and he had a reason for everything he was doing.  It went well with Sean's personality.  So when we got here and before, he was very upset and just didn't like the way things were going.  Since then he has become just very relaxed and he seems to be adjusting well.  Logan of course is doing great.  He loves it here especially when he now has his Legos with him again.  Natasha had issues when she joined us the first few days.  I had arranged it for her to visit Grandma and Grandpa so that she could stay in "civilization" for a little longer and take her showers (about 45 min long).  When she joined us the house was not done!!!!  We didn't have the roof up or anything and it just hit her like a ton of bricks that this was reality and there was no escaping it.

More cement!!!!

The rear of the house

She did have a melt down which was understandable and we just helped her through it.  Today we were talking and she agreed that it was really nice to not have to live in two locations.  She is adjusting.  That week was really hard for her since she found a ground nest of hornets and got stung 5 or 6 times.  Then as were were fixing the walls on the septic side, the ladder slipped and hit her on the head and back.  That hurt and she was out of commission for the rest of the day.

The driveway side

Since then things have calmed down considerably.  We even have a phone, but it is a little tricky.  We don't get really good reception (actually we have to hike the mountain or go into town) so Natasha can't talk to her friend Esther for hours and hours.  But we will get it right.  We ordered the roofing, which is metal roofing, and had to wait for it to come in.  That gave us time to go explore and get other things done around the house.  We now have the beginning of a winter supply of chopped and stacked wood, which is very nice.  The walls are all screwed in on the outside and that was actually a big job because it gets really hot out there and the ground is really uneven.  So once the roofing came in, on Saturday, we got to town.  As you can see it is quite a way up there and so how were we going to get the roof up there.  But Tom figured all that out, no problem.  We worked 4 days straight in the heat and got the roof done.  Last night, Logan, Tom and myself had dinner in the house on the bedroom level up top and watched "The Incredibles", a movie we had not watched in 2 years. Tom got my school boxes out and I was happy to see that I had the right books for what I planned to teach Logan this year.  That was great.  Natasha is going to continue to take classes on line through the library.  She is taking a poetry class right now and loves it. 

When our things were delivered by Home Depot on Saturday everyone got busy.  Tom and Sean took turns on the roof and Tasha, Sean and myself were hauling the sheets of roofing up.  It was high tension and high activity time.

Over all this has been a great month.  We are actually going to CT this weekend for a birthday party so that will be nice.  Enjoy the pictures.  They were not taken by Natasha, as the quality will prove.

A visit is always welcome

Chet loves it!!

Have hoist, will lift!

Tom, superman.

Can you see my bulging muscles?

Heave ho!!!

Too much for me!

Batter up!!

Living room

Logan's room

This is just fine for now

Time for a break

LEGOS

Hoist it up already!

It is done!!!!

What is next you ask?  The walls need to be finished, then tivec has to go on the outside.  Next the windows, and then the rest!  It will be done in no time!  Have a great holiday weekend.