One year and counting

This has been an interesting week. The fall weather is nice and warm, which makes northeast Nevada nice. Today marks 1 year here and many great things have happened since we arrived. I think we are all becoming accustomed to, or at least some what accepting of life in the west. A sign of this was this morning reading the paper, neither Gail or Andy found interesting the want ads asking for winter sheep shearers or cattle herders. Yes, we actually have want ads looking for experienced cowboys. So, if anyone can "work on range lands protecting pregnant cows from harsh winter conditions, trailing groups of pregnant cows to assigned areas on horseback, using trained dogs, using appropriate trailing methods to avoid undue stress on cows to prevent hypothermia or death...set up camp supply wagon...break horses, rope calves......and live in a mobile camp on call 24/7" let us know and we will forward the ad. And you thought we were kidding about living in the wild west.

Matthew and Nikolas had parent/teacher conferences this week and both had great reports. Both are A/B students and we are very proud of both of them. Nikolas is looking forward to playing some baseball in the spring. Matthew continues to plan and build his Lego Command Station (he now has a very large plywood base sitting on top of his dresser) which he is preparing to submit to the 2009 Elko County Fair...which isn't until August.

Gail's Pampered Chef business is almost to the point of taking over her life. No complaints mind you. She has two or three shows every weekend between now and December 15th and a couple mid week shows just to break up the monotony. And because she doesn't have quite enough to do, she is starting up her own house cleaning business the first week of November. She has one week left at the daycare center and will go full speed ahead with her business the next week. Unfortunately, Gail fought a stomach bug this week and was down for the whole weekend. Maybe she will stop catching everything that goes by when she is no longer wiping noses and getting coughed on every morning.

Andy had a nice thing happen this week. The local District Attorney's office is losing an attorney and word on the street is that they want Andy. Several different members of that office, along with a detective on the Elko police force have inquired as to whether he wanted to join their office. Andy was told the "boss" wouldn't come knocking, he isn't the kind of guy that would pilfer an attorney out of the Public Defenders office, but if Andy was interested, the job was already his. Andy is quite happy with what he does, so he will not take them up on their offer, but he is honored none the less. He is quite busy and glad to be doing trial work.

Well, that about sums up our week. Hope all is well.