Spring Will Soon Be Here, We Hope.

Another wonderful week has passed for us here in the high desert of Northeastern Nevada. The biggest news of the week was Matthew's Blue and Gold banquet and Nikolas' new hobby as an amateur dentist. As you can see below, Nikolas has taken to pulling his teeth out. We were at the Blue and Gold and Nikolas returned from using the bathroom to announce he decided to pull his other front tooth out.

Matthew had earned two belt loops and we are very proud of him. The theme was the Chinese New Year and we enjoyed a nice dinner and presentation on China.

The weather has warmed up quite a bit and we are told that Elko actually has a spring. Unfortunately, it will also have a wonderful mud/slush season thanks to the wonderful caretaking of our apartment building. Lest any of you thought we were kidding when we complained of no plowing you can see from the photos below that despite the sidewalk being clear there is about 6 inches of ice on the roadway. The past few days have been sunny and in the 40's, next week it is supposed to reach the 50's. So by the end of the day we have a nice slushy mess and by morning we have ice. When we asked about perhaps plowing as the snow melts, we were told by the maintenance guy as he drove by on his trctor with a plow, "Why, just get good snow tires." Yeaaaah.



Andy and Gail continue to do well. This upcoming week Andy has quite a few trials, which he is looking forward to doing. We hope all is well with our friends and family.