We made it! We survived our cross-country, mid-Winter migration with some stress but minimal damage. Icy roads and nasty viruses (I discovered you can develop Asthma late in life, given the right conditions), but I reckon that’s nothing compared to what the first Mormon’s dealt with when they migrated West. We stopped in MN to…
This is old news to most of you, but in case I missed anybody, we are buying a house! We haven’t actually set foot in it yet, but we are not entirely insane. We watched lots of videos and pictures, and have had detailed inspections and appraisals done. All looks good, so we hope to…
I feel remiss in not announcing in last months post that Zach and Tiffany are engaged! Since this is somewhat old news, I guess a old stock photo from this summer will be ok: The wedding bells will chime in June 2012 in Rochester. We got back last week from a 10 day trip to…
We traveled back to the lake a few weeks ago: To celebrate Boris and Irena’s 50 year anniversary! The woman folk dressed up in beautiful brightly colored clothing: And the men folk didn’t get a picture, as they were not so clever and only had bland attire, so instead I took a picture of a…
Last weekend Helen attended a child Neurology conference in Providence RI. Not-so-coincidentally this is where Aya lives! We had a nice visit with her, was impressed by her tidy apartment: We split our time between Aya’s place and our friend Olga’s 300 year old ‘saltbox’ house nearby in Somerset: Built in the 1720s, before George…
A mystery photo: Hint: NYC. Answer, end of post. Nick and Chloe joined us for our last weekend at the lake on Labor Day: We had lots of fun, taming wild animals: Climbing the highest mountain we could find (Lovewell Mountain, towering 1000 feet above the lake at 2500 feet! … that is an satirical…