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My fabulous idea of being able ot send in posts from lunchbreak at work has been foiled!  Stupid idea of putting a confidentiality clause on every e-mailt hat goes out :-P

Ain't commuting fun?

Yesterday, I saw a house get pulled over by a cop.  In the middle of the highway, on my way home.  Yes, a HOUSE.  Specifically, the front side I believe, although it’s hard to tell when it’s covered in plastic.

 

It was one of those modular homes.  The ones that are cut in half on the trailers with the “wide load” signs, an escort car behind them (which they obviously can’t see), and traffic backing up for 2 miles because people are afraid to pass a house on the road.  But, I had passed the back half without incident, and saw the front half about ¾ of a mile up ahead.  In the mean time, I had a cop car pass me in the left lane – no biggie, but an excuse for everyone to show that their brake lights work.  So, I’m driving along – watching people slow down for both the cop car AND the house, and I’m slowly catching up to the house.  All of the sudden, I see the cop car from the left lane, change into the middle lane and switch it’s blues on.  It then straddles the middle and right lanes, between the house and the miniscule escort car, until the house pulls over. 

 

So yes, I saw a house get pulled off to the side of the highway on the way home yesterday by I’m sure a very nice member of the State Police.

Contest!

Well, the contest lineup has been posted…  I have to say, it’s quite nerve-wracking to see your quartet in writing in the lineup!  We have 5 quartets competing from our chorus though, which is amazing!

 

QUARTET CONTEST:
MT East Coast Serenade
1. Basic Black
2. Foreign Exchange
3. Three and a Half
4. New England Sound
5. Cloud 9
6. Relative Ring
7. In Cahoots!
8. Showcase
9. Take 4
10. Back in Town
11. The Long & Short of It
12. Inspirations
13. Blue Notes
14. Sound Investment
15. Omigosh!
16. Escapade

CHORUS CONTEST:
1. Silk'n Sounds
2. Capital Chordettes
3. Chair City Pipers
4. New England Voices in Harmony
5. Women of Note
6. Montreal City Voices
7. Thousand Islanders
8. Harmony Heritage
9. Barre-Tones
10. Sounds of the Seacoast
11. Champlain Echoes
12. Maine-ly Harmony

 

 

Quote of the Day...

Him: So, were you out shoveling while you were working yesterday?

Me:  No, I have a husband and a snowblower J

Actual conversation at work today...

Person X approached me with a menu to the local café today.  He pointed to the sandwiches, and asked if I knew what “Focaccia” was. 

Me:  It’s bread

Him:  Is it like a wrap?

Me: No, it’s regular bread (stumbling for the best way to describe it)
Him:  So it’s made with flour?

Me: …  yes, it’s made with flour.

 

 

Is there bread out there that ISN’T made with flour?  *sigh*

Christmas!!!!

Our Christmas day, in 3 pictures and 3 movies :-P

The Christmas Tree! With way too many presents under it!

Jeeves, Enjoying his Bully stick that he opened himself! Silly dog

And Jett getting his Bully stick!

This is quickly becoming the tradition of the Christmas night Pit session. Pit is a card trading game, based off the stock market. It's a nice, quiet, peaceful way to spend the evening. (hah!)

I taped one hand. People playing, starting in the lower left and going clockwise - Greg (Karen's brother), Charlie, Kevin (Karen's sister), Joy (Lindsey's mother), Mom, Lindsey (Greg's girlfriend), and Kim (Lindsey's aunt). Also appearing are Dad, Rosalie, and Papa's shoulder :-)

Strider, attempting to access the catnip inside. While he would have gotten to it, eventually. To save us from having to pick up shreads of paper through out the house, we opened it for him shortly after

The battle of the paper. Between Sam and Strider, for the privilege of being able to claim the paper as ones own.

Hayden Holiday Update

While I've been photographing events around the house, I haven't done much posting of them. Here's the last month or so, in review :-)

Thanksgiving brought on the need for apple pies. Mostly, one for us, and one for the in-laws. So, that morning, I dutifully made two gorgeous apple pies, and left the one below sitting on the stove, with a rag over it to cool off while we took the other one and went to Thanksgiving dinner with C's family. Now, Apple pies have a tendancy to sink as they cool and form to the apples inside, but when we got home that night, we found a very strange spot on the pie, where it had not only sunk in, but had broken the crust and juices had come up.

Suspect #1 - aka. Strider and Suspect #2 - aka. Sam-wise
Due to his brothers innocent look, lack of interest in jumping on counters, and lack of interest in human food, Sam-wise was found to be guilty, and was subsquently tortured by being held in the air and flipped upside down.
As a 2nd story with thanksgiving and apple pies - I had taken the 2nd pie as we left, covered it in foil, and had it sitting on my lap (on a hot grabber, since it was still warm!) C backs out of the driveway, and 2 seconds later, I'm covered in apple pie juice, all over my sweater and pants. Apparently I didn't seal the foil well. Back into the house, and the hour of planning what to wear quickly went to plan B - whatever's clean and matches!

Here is Sam, showing off the hiding spot for the next month. And no worries, once there are presents there, they'll do flying leaps over them into and out of the tree!

The winter has also brought on a new toy for C. This was two-folded, as it means we had to spend the money, but at the same point, I no longer have to shovel the driveway :-)

Our snow-stick that we got for christmas last year and never got to use!

So, on December 11th, at approximately 11:35 (judging by when the clock stopped) the power went out over most of the north-east. We were in the middle of a WONDERFUL ice storm, and some where between the power company and here (actually, lots of somewheres) The lines decided to not be connected anymore. Anyhow - this resulted in us losing power for about 44 hours. We were lucky - 11-12 days later, and some people STILL don't have power back...

Some of the damage from around the neighborhood

And, as a result of having no heat for that time, Fishy finally left us. Yes, he was called Fishy, mostly because when we had multiple fish, we couldn't tell the difference, so they got named "Fishy 1, Fishy 2, and Fishy 3" The first one we saw was #1, etc. Of course, we have Kitty 1 and Kitty 2 as well... so I think we're just lazy at naming animals.

But C has some great plans to make a terrarium out of the fishtank, once he gets around to it. Meantime, while i'm doing my scrubbing of the house from one end to the other, I cleaned out the fish tank and made my own terrarium. Complete with ceramic happy frogs and a stuffed multi-colored lizard :-)