Well we've said Tchuss! to Germany, and we are now in New York and settling into our temporary rental home until our house is finished at Fort Drum. We like the temp house. It's in a nice neighborhood and Laurel and I can walk the two blocks to her preschool on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
Bruce dove right into the chaos of his new job and seems, most of the time, to be enjoying it better than what he was doing in Germany (apart from flying, that is).
When we first arrived in mid-December, we thought all the hype about living in Blizzard Country was a bunch of hokey. The grass was green and the temps were in the 50s. Oh, and it was windy. Very very windy. I mean we were experiencing flashbacks to Cheyenne! Note Laurel's skirt in the picture below.
Now of course, we've learned two simple yet important words related to life in the North Country: lake effect. We are dipping to about 10 below at night and reaching the teens during the day and there is quite a bit of lovely fluffy dry snow on the ground. During lake effect storms this snow is pretty much dumped upon our area and is quite lovely to enjoy from the warmth of one's home. Unfortunately, thus far the snow does not contain the moisture required to build a good snowman or snowball but we've enjoyed ourselves anyway.
Better close for now and get some dinner on the table. Trying out a new beef stew recipe from America's Test Kitchen. Now that we are hooked up with DSL again I should be able to put in updates much more regularly.
I'll leave you with a picture of one of our neighbors. He has lots of relatives in the area.
1 comment:
good to catch up with you...looks like fun!
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