Fun in Woodstock - in the Winter

Well, it is about time I updated this blog - don’t you think?  So here goes.

Not too much new or exciting.  It is the routine things that happen that get one to put off doing this.  But here we go.

Look at Kelly’s blog and you will find out that they have been very active in fixing up their new house.  Well, we just could not help but try to compete a very little bit.  Last November we contracted with Pella for new windows that were delivered in early January just after my last blog update.  They look nice but almost exactly like the old ones.  Which we are happy about, because we were not tired of the old look.  But the new ones have made a difference.  There is no more cold downdraft coming off of the windows; there are no more little cracks in individual panes resulting from too much heat when I was removing old paint to put on new paint; the old broken and difficult to use storm windows are gone.

We did a total of 16 windows: the four basement windows got Pella’s bottom line of vinyl windows, the two in the kitchen got their top line of wood ones, and the rest of the main floor (10) got the intermediate line.  So now we have rotate-in windows to make cleaning easier, no more banged up fingers opening storm windows, etc.

After that the rest of January and February were rather quiet.  We did get together with Ed and Kelly a couple of times and saw their progress.  We delighted in the lack of snow and ice.  But wonder how the gardens are going to do this year with the unusual weather this winter.

Then in March we took up our daughter’s invitation to visit her and Tyler in St. Thomas; we went down on March 5 and came back March 12.  We had a great time.  Went over to St. Johns for a day and a night and met a very interesting couple .  Visited a different beach in the afternoon every day but two; two on St. Johns and two on St. Thomas.  Enjoyed them all and got a good sun tan. We went to several restaurants including one we went to last years ( Marilyn’s favorite - Betsy’s) and several new (to Ann and me) ones.  Good food, good times.

Now we are back and catching up.  Making appointments for everything from the dentist to the car dealership for a recall (minor), including a catscan and ultrasound to check up on my stent.  On the health front there is noting new except that Marilyn stubbed a toe on a rock on the beach and broke her left middle toe.  Four weeks with it taped to the next one.  Good grief - and she probably wont appreciate that I even mentioned it.  And one of these days I will have to do two things: learn how to put pictures in this blog, and how to use Facebook.  As one of the authors in a magazine says: if the mood strikes, write. 

Bye now.