Lots of catching up to do after this past weekend. Lets see. . . On Saturday Paul & Mom & Dad Worster met Mom and Dad Slater. The Worsters and Ami, Andy & Logan all met up to discover what was to be discovered at the Mystic Aquarium an Institute for Learning. Lots of learning to be had and I think that Logan showed Paul through each exhibit at least twice ( so if you need to know about what we saw ask Paul ). Once we had worn Logan down a little we all caravanned over to the Slaters for lunch. Dad Slater was doing his Gaurd Weekend for Uncle Sam, but was able to meet us all later in the day. We had a wonderful meal and everyone enjoyed the company. After lunch and talking for a few hours we went out to Panera for dinner and everyone went on there way to get home. As Ami, Andy & Logan were on their way home they received word that the first offer had been made on Ami's house. On Sunday Andy celebrated his Birthday and Mom and Dad Slater traveled to Wethersfield to have dinner and help celebrate with us.
Now for the Big News. On Monday afternoon, with not too much in the way of haggling, a bonifide contract has been signed on the house. The house will have a new sump pump and electrical panel, by the end of March, but things look good so far. Inspection on Friday so keep us in your prayers.
On another note we are seriously considering moving to an appartment in a multi-family house side/side unit in Manchester, CT. As that developes we will update you all.
Hugs and Kisses
A & A & L & K
Monday, February 26, 2007
Monday, February 19, 2007
A play with friends: Dad's ROW
Went to the blog and saw Logan's interesting picture of the butterflies. Good shot. The story of Logan and the seven trips on the hill reminds me of Paul when we went to Maine one winter and he "fell 77 times while walking around in the snow" at Dingleys and fell asleep on the couch and couldn't be awakened for supper. And then the really long nap he took after the X-country ski tour in Houlton after we got back to the motel with the Jacobsons.
Haven't quite mastered the blog site so that I could write this directly on the site.
We went to MRT at Lowell with the Millins and what a show it was! The show is "Dinah Was" and is a play to show Dinah Washington's life and her fight to stay in the Sahara Hotel where she was the Headliner attraction in 1959 with flashbacks of her life. It was a powerful story with lots of good songs and done very well. It runs for 4 or 5 more weeks and we can recommend it highly for anyone who can make it to Lowell to see. The Jazz orchestra that supplies the music is also really good. We enjoyed another fine meal at the Village Inn in Dracut and the Millins shared more stories of their trip to Paris and Paul's upcoming trip to Israel. He leaves a week from today with 40+ other pastors for a package tour. The idea is that they will come back and talk it up in their congregations and jump start the tourist industry in Israel again. He's done a lot of research in what he wants to see and also into the security so that he feels comfortable in going. We look forward to the next show and the tales of his trip.
Weather is cold, +2 F, sunny and windy with wind chills in the negative territory. One more day of very cold and then snow flurries Tuesday through Thursday but temperatures may get as High as 39 F!
Mom's schedule is Hampton for Tuesday and Lewiston for Wednesday and Thursday this week so she'll get another visit with Aunt Debbie. She is still very excited with the new job and is enjoying the big challenges of her new responsibilities.
Enough ROW for now.
Haven't quite mastered the blog site so that I could write this directly on the site.
We went to MRT at Lowell with the Millins and what a show it was! The show is "Dinah Was" and is a play to show Dinah Washington's life and her fight to stay in the Sahara Hotel where she was the Headliner attraction in 1959 with flashbacks of her life. It was a powerful story with lots of good songs and done very well. It runs for 4 or 5 more weeks and we can recommend it highly for anyone who can make it to Lowell to see. The Jazz orchestra that supplies the music is also really good. We enjoyed another fine meal at the Village Inn in Dracut and the Millins shared more stories of their trip to Paris and Paul's upcoming trip to Israel. He leaves a week from today with 40+ other pastors for a package tour. The idea is that they will come back and talk it up in their congregations and jump start the tourist industry in Israel again. He's done a lot of research in what he wants to see and also into the security so that he feels comfortable in going. We look forward to the next show and the tales of his trip.
Weather is cold, +2 F, sunny and windy with wind chills in the negative territory. One more day of very cold and then snow flurries Tuesday through Thursday but temperatures may get as High as 39 F!
Mom's schedule is Hampton for Tuesday and Lewiston for Wednesday and Thursday this week so she'll get another visit with Aunt Debbie. She is still very excited with the new job and is enjoying the big challenges of her new responsibilities.
Enough ROW for now.
Logan's trip to EcoTarrium
Here is a picture that Logan took himself. He's been taking lots of pictures with the digital camera he got for Christmas, and we'll be posting some next time.
...And... We're Back!
Woah! Every time I had tried to log in to make a new post, the page would just blink and blink at me, alternately showing the page I would need to use and then wisking it away, telling me it was "loading." I was confounded on how to get in here ever again, but now I've found I simply need to disable my privacy wall, and I'm in.
Here is the Review Of everyone's Weekend from last week:
Matt:
I hiked 5 county highpoints (actually more than that, some counties had
multiple points) on Saturday and 3 peaks over Boulder, CO, on Sunday :-)
I woke up today (after flying in last night) and wanted my weekend!
Chari had to give me the boot out of bed. I hope to get some photos and
a trip report up soon. Colorado, especially up by Boulder, is a
beautiful spot. The peaks were only 8,000 ft, but I got a full day and
plenty of snow out of the deal. The county highpointing was way easier:
all of them were within 100 yards of where I parked the car!
Chari:
Hopefully stay at Maika's for one of the evenings and maybe some snowshoeing - We finally got some snow.
Dad W:
I went north on Friday, stopped and talked to Mildred and the lawyer. Our
executor appointments should come through this week from probate court. I
stopped by the house in Lee and checked on it. It seemed strange to walk
through with no one there.
I delivered some can goods and flour to Dad and Edna then bunked in with
Harry and Chris. Harry's back and ribs were bothering him so we didn't
plan on too big a weekend. Saturday we visited Scotty on Dobsie Pond. He
had a bob house set up on the ice with two holes inside and a few outside.
We stayed awhile and I got some good pictures. Weather was -20 F in the
mornings and warming up to 5 F but still cold with 10 to 15 mph breeze.
The heat in the bob house was appreciated.
We visited a second hand shop and then went home. Frank visited and we had
a good time. Took the meat from Auburn One out to camp and ate a meal
out there then came home. Sunday Berle came out and we had another good
visit so I got to see everyone.
Came home Monday and stopped in to Jake's office to break up the trip. GPS
said total trip was 602 miles up and back.
Mom worked in Lewiston Monday and is in Hampstead today. She'll have
tomorrow off due to the impending storm. We'll see what it brings.
Paul:
I've been trying to figure out the POW(hence the delays in answering - sorry M+D!), but I've been trying to coordinate too many people and places so far.
Assuming (!) all of G-ma's tech parts have not yet arrived, I will not stop by her place tonight to update Windows/Inet connection/RAM, but hope to do so sometime Sunday, if all parts have arrived by then.
So: Tonight (thr), up to Oxford(-ish) Maine, to the lakehouse with Dave, KC, Matt, Gabe, and Nate (I think) for general geeking-out and potent potables.
I hope to see Jake (prolly Sunday) in Raymond, then fix/upgrade G-ma's computer(Sunday*), then get back to Cambridge, maybe even in time for some work on Sunday. Far as I know, I'm working Monday (hooray for doubletime and a half!), so i def'ly need to be back for that.
*Even if the inet parts arent there yet, I could update RAM and Windows version. Or, I can wait til the parts are there, since inet is what she uses it for anyway.
And, the A-Team:
We are staying home, Logan will be out. Saturday, we'll fix the gaping hole in the garage to the basement wall. Later in the day, we'll have Sue and Micheal's dog, Jasmine here while they are out to play. We need to edit and burn the sermon onto CD before we go to church.
That's all. We might go sledding on Sunday afternoon. Logan and I took some time to sled from the front yard to the back yard between the houses on thursday morning before school. What a blast!! We almost hit the house behind us. We were going "so fast I couldn't even breathe well!" he reports.
The family blog is going through some engineering troubles, so I can't add anything to it just now. When I can get back there, please expect invitations to become blog contributors.
Ami and Andy
The surprises we have to add was that friends of Sue's and Micheal's came around with their Mastiff and we all went to the rather crowded dog park. The girls had a great time running around with the other dogs, and there was a Great Dane there, too, so Jasmine and Patience weren't the only loping large dogs. Well-dressed for the cold, and with no wind to speak of at the time, we, the dogs' companions, were content to laugh at their antics for at least an hour in the sun.
On Sunday, we got Logan back early, because of a heater problem at his Dad's house. We took the opportunity to go sledding up at the golf course, where a serious hill is roped off for the purpose. I didn't think we needed to go down the whole hill, really, but after one time down with Andy, Logan wouldn't hear of any bunny slope compromises! Everyone got their exercise walking back up the hill 7 times, and Logan was totally tuckered out by the end of it! A round of carmel hot chocolate for the boys refortified them though, in time for a sunday dinner of homemade soup and parmesan bread.
Next up: guest blogger invites for all of you!
Here is the Review Of everyone's Weekend from last week:
Matt:
I hiked 5 county highpoints (actually more than that, some counties had
multiple points) on Saturday and 3 peaks over Boulder, CO, on Sunday :-)
I woke up today (after flying in last night) and wanted my weekend!
Chari had to give me the boot out of bed. I hope to get some photos and
a trip report up soon. Colorado, especially up by Boulder, is a
beautiful spot. The peaks were only 8,000 ft, but I got a full day and
plenty of snow out of the deal. The county highpointing was way easier:
all of them were within 100 yards of where I parked the car!
Chari:
Hopefully stay at Maika's for one of the evenings and maybe some snowshoeing - We finally got some snow.
Dad W:
I went north on Friday, stopped and talked to Mildred and the lawyer. Our
executor appointments should come through this week from probate court. I
stopped by the house in Lee and checked on it. It seemed strange to walk
through with no one there.
I delivered some can goods and flour to Dad and Edna then bunked in with
Harry and Chris. Harry's back and ribs were bothering him so we didn't
plan on too big a weekend. Saturday we visited Scotty on Dobsie Pond. He
had a bob house set up on the ice with two holes inside and a few outside.
We stayed awhile and I got some good pictures. Weather was -20 F in the
mornings and warming up to 5 F but still cold with 10 to 15 mph breeze.
The heat in the bob house was appreciated.
We visited a second hand shop and then went home. Frank visited and we had
a good time. Took the meat from Auburn One out to camp and ate a meal
out there then came home. Sunday Berle came out and we had another good
visit so I got to see everyone.
Came home Monday and stopped in to Jake's office to break up the trip. GPS
said total trip was 602 miles up and back.
Mom worked in Lewiston Monday and is in Hampstead today. She'll have
tomorrow off due to the impending storm. We'll see what it brings.
Paul:
I've been trying to figure out the POW(hence the delays in answering - sorry M+D!), but I've been trying to coordinate too many people and places so far.
Assuming (!) all of G-ma's tech parts have not yet arrived, I will not stop by her place tonight to update Windows/Inet connection/RAM, but hope to do so sometime Sunday, if all parts have arrived by then.
So: Tonight (thr), up to Oxford(-ish) Maine, to the lakehouse with Dave, KC, Matt, Gabe, and Nate (I think) for general geeking-out and potent potables.
I hope to see Jake (prolly Sunday) in Raymond, then fix/upgrade G-ma's computer(Sunday*), then get back to Cambridge, maybe even in time for some work on Sunday. Far as I know, I'm working Monday (hooray for doubletime and a half!), so i def'ly need to be back for that.
*Even if the inet parts arent there yet, I could update RAM and Windows version. Or, I can wait til the parts are there, since inet is what she uses it for anyway.
And, the A-Team:
We are staying home, Logan will be out. Saturday, we'll fix the gaping hole in the garage to the basement wall. Later in the day, we'll have Sue and Micheal's dog, Jasmine here while they are out to play. We need to edit and burn the sermon onto CD before we go to church.
That's all. We might go sledding on Sunday afternoon. Logan and I took some time to sled from the front yard to the back yard between the houses on thursday morning before school. What a blast!! We almost hit the house behind us. We were going "so fast I couldn't even breathe well!" he reports.
The family blog is going through some engineering troubles, so I can't add anything to it just now. When I can get back there, please expect invitations to become blog contributors.
Ami and Andy
The surprises we have to add was that friends of Sue's and Micheal's came around with their Mastiff and we all went to the rather crowded dog park. The girls had a great time running around with the other dogs, and there was a Great Dane there, too, so Jasmine and Patience weren't the only loping large dogs. Well-dressed for the cold, and with no wind to speak of at the time, we, the dogs' companions, were content to laugh at their antics for at least an hour in the sun.
On Sunday, we got Logan back early, because of a heater problem at his Dad's house. We took the opportunity to go sledding up at the golf course, where a serious hill is roped off for the purpose. I didn't think we needed to go down the whole hill, really, but after one time down with Andy, Logan wouldn't hear of any bunny slope compromises! Everyone got their exercise walking back up the hill 7 times, and Logan was totally tuckered out by the end of it! A round of carmel hot chocolate for the boys refortified them though, in time for a sunday dinner of homemade soup and parmesan bread.
Next up: guest blogger invites for all of you!
Monday, February 12, 2007
Welcome
Here's Logan at the Children's Museum in West Hartford. He had a blast with Bobby and "little" Andy making Lego race cars and learning about color. They saw a live animal demonstration with a Ball Snake, who is of the family with the Pythons. Little Colby was only 5 pounds or so. Logan decided not to touch her.
I'm sitting here at work, listening to other people's interpreted calls. I can only hear the deaf people's half of the conversation floating over the cubicle walls. Someone is talking about snow coming down at 2 inches per hour tomorrow morning! So Jealous! Then it was going to rain, and then freeze over. So Not Jealous. But I wish we could have a big pajama stay inside snow day!
So here we have a place for our pictures, our bits of news, etc. Please add any links to your favorite places or things you talk about all the time.
I will attempt to set this up so everyone can make their own postings, and I'll let you know how to do so.
Love, Ami
So here we have a place for our pictures, our bits of news, etc. Please add any links to your favorite places or things you talk about all the time.
I will attempt to set this up so everyone can make their own postings, and I'll let you know how to do so.
Love, Ami
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