Happy New Year!

The holidays are always fun.

This past week has featured at least 3 forays outside with the snowblower and high temperatures below freezing. Winter is finally upon us. We need the snow so that people from out of state can come and ski on our mountains, and so we can meet our legal obligations to ship our water to Nevada and California (who don't appreciate it, but are happy to waste it).

Cleaning the dreaded basement finally percolated up to the top of the to-do list this past week (remind me NOT to take vacation days unless I'm going somewhere), and the junk has been a-flyin. Highlights of the treasures found so far:
- My 1992 COBOL text book from college
- Hate mail from the parents of the girl who was not accepted into Madrigals when Sherise was teaching high school choir
- Multiple Franklin Planners and binders of "archived" pages
- A trash can full of ... trash
- A dead plant
- Marketing swag for large companies that no longer exist, such as MediaOne Cable, AT&T Broadband, and American Management Systems

We really shoulda cleaned out the basement before letting the big burly movers come and pack it all up.

However, there were some high points. Sherise's brother and his family came to visit, and his kids and our kids couldn't have been any happier if they were pigs in $@!+. We were pleasantly surprised to see that they have been training their (almost) three-year-old to be a cage fighter:



Video footage comes courtesy of Calvin.