Since we have been so busy all year and had no construction $$ to work on the house this weekend and because we all spent the first part of the weekend being miserable and sick and because we wanted to celebrate our Temple Anniversary, we took a trip up to the Adirondacks on Monday.  We drove up the Whiteface Veteran's Memorial Highway.  That drive is pretty much my limit for heights, switchbacks and drop-offs.  And then we played with my other borderline phobia and walked through the tunnel to the elevator that would take us the rest of the way through the mountain to the top.

Maxx had a blast jumping around on the rocks at the top of the mountain.  But not too close to the edge.

Then we took the kids to the covered bridge in Jay.  Molly Bryn didn't remember ever seeing it before.  Bry and I realized that we have been negligent about taking her around to our ancestral stomping grounds.

We also spent a little time wandering around in Downtown Lake Placid before heading home.  I was pretty disappointed with the shops this time around.  I remember there being several small, charming little shops with unique items but this time I there seemed to be only high end, pretentious outlets and small touristy shops.  Even "Where'd You Get That Hat?"  felt stale, trEndy and commercial.

Alas.

The mountain was great though - 80 mile visibility and not freezing at the top.














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Has been at a standstill since the beginning of school.  We ran out of construction $$ at the end of August and it took me several weeks to put together a packet of receipts and estimates and project overviews for the bank and then the USPS changed its sorting route for Upstate NY and all of my early September bill payments were three weeks late.

THREE Weeks!  To get a piece of mail from Brasher to Potsdam.  And our mortgage payment got completely lost. 

That created multiple glitches with the the other Evil Empire (National Grid)  and with the bank that were finally all straightened out yesterday with a $25.00 stop check fee.  Aaargh.  So maybe we can have more construction $ next week?

My lovely new bathroom is still at the early skeleton construction stage.  That non-functioning bathtub taunts me every time I walk upstairs.

We got the two female Kittens fixed.   Emmeth can wait a little while.  He's not spraying and he still says "meeew?"  It will be a while yet before he becomes a full grown, sauntering Tom Cat.









The cows have moved away.   This makes us all very sad but we are growing some spectacularly large spiders in our side entry to make up for their absence.   I think they make a pretty good home security system.  By 8:00 every night, they have spun new, strong webs and hang at about head height to catch yummy flies - which we also have plenty of.

The cold is coming on strong.  Our first delivery of wood for the season comes today and the trees are beautiful.

















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