Christmas in Vermont

The stockings are hung, the tree is stood ,and Carrie finishes the
decorations for 2008

King us

The new solid Alder wood bed from Jordan's Taunton, MA warehouse gets
put together for Saturday night

Road trip

Thanks Dave & Jill - Warren to Nashua to Dedham to Taunton to Warren,
VT by way of Dedham one last time

Amen

It's time

Carrie and Jackie finish the final sides and we are thankful for our
health and good eats

Thermometer?

No calibration - hope it's 350 and accurate

But we're not eating the rear flap sticking out of the oil

Tom

In goes 15 lb Tom the turkey at 350F
49 minutes to go

Turkey walk

Carrie and the white turkey return from their thanksgiving day hunter-
protected walk in Vermont

Dentage

Yep, a wary dent in our rear cargo has our jetBlue airbus a320 sitting
idly at the gate with the door open fir ventilation and sanity. Where
is the shower curtain ring salesman to help pass the time with wild
anecdotes?

Looks like if the weather doesn't get ya, the maintenance will.

LA fires

Right up to the edge of the mansions - lovely

Open season on the LA Freeway

Yep - the morning commute from Sherman Oaks to Malibu with fog and 5
lanes of armed-and-dangerous drivers plug the air and the pavement

Tallulah hits 2

Ginger, Tallulah & Danny Greenwald celebrate the end of T's 2nd
birthday with a cake at the end of a Lomb birthday at the LA Zoo

Three legged Wile E.

Coyote comes to the Malibu yard and steals the rabbit's apple

Manifold love

All pex must lead to somewhere- in our case, it's the calefi
manifolds. You can almost feel the heat

Toast

Y warmth on the first floor. Finally got 1000 ft of radiant installed
and bled thanks to Gary from www.houseneeds.com

Hole saw

For the last radiant tubing
The cold is coming

Poolside

The house is finished; so 4 days on florida is in order to prepare for
the coming winter.

Why grow trees?

When the boys from www.ipsvt.com can transplant Sugar Maples from your
fire cheif's field. Bingo - 10 yr old install-trees!

Without wires

Finally, the box from CDW comes and we go 100% wireless at VickeryHill

PenOFin

Porch penofin'd! Peace sign mounted.
Amen!

Like an ad for Andersen windows...

Jeremy Vignaux came up while there was still snow last week and forwarded this amazing shot from Carrie’s loft. Brand new windows, new hanging pendant and snow on the deck…yep, it looks like an ad for Andersen windows

 

 

 

Superfruit

Planted 3 x 2yr old blueberry bushes (Vaccinium corymbosum) hearty
enough to withstand -20F winter days and still produce in the summer

Strip heat

Sunday is the perfect day to cut, sand and install the wood strip that
will secure the 1st floor radiant heat tubing. Next step - run PEX
through the joist bays, then bring on the water

Burn in

Fan installed - she requires a 2 hour burn in period at full impulse!

Casablanca

Gary J and his height help install the monster Casablanca ceiling fan