My Christmas Preperation Weekend!

This weekend we decorated our tree. Instead of buying a tree we decorated our year round tree.

We recieved 18 inches of snow this weekend. The picture of Gully is taking during the storm at Indian Brook. He found a mole in the snow bank and decided to play with it. The tree is probably one of the best decorated trees in the area!

Ill be here in 3 weeks!

Photo by National Geographic

A friend showed me this awesome picture...

Julie Smith captured this stunning photo from 28,000' of the shadow cast by Mt. Everest at 5am on 23 May 2006. She reached the summit two hours later. It was her third attempt on Everest in as many years. Fiona reached the summit a little more than half an hour after her at at 7:50am. Photo by Julie Smith

I found another picture from the Dragon Boat Races I did back in August

Indian Brook and some Snow

The first picture is right next to my house, the second on my drive to work and the rest are, of course, from Indian Brook. It is definitely going to be a white Christmas this year!

It's Finally Snowing!!!

Allie and I playing tourists!

Indian Brook with Snow

Wouldnt be a post without some pictures of Indian Brook!

Ice Skating!

Steph, Holly, and I took Holly's daughter Jordan (3) ice skating for her first time! She did great! She was doing it all by herself after an hour.

Thanksgiving

Allie is back home in Vemont! She arrived last night just in time for thanksgiving, and leaves Sunday. We made dinner at my place. Robert and Stephanies mom Kathy, also joined us. All the animals have taken very well to Allie.

Your Ecological Footprint.

Do you know how large your ecological footprint is? Go here and find out. Mine is 18 acres. I am interested to see what everyone elses global footprint is. If you click on the comments link below, it will ask you to sign in or create an account. When you create an account you do not have to have have a google address. Just enter any email address, create a password and you are all set to comment. YOU WILL NOT GET ANY SPAM MAIL!!

http://www.earthday.net/footprint/index.asp

Bonfire in Johnson

So what do us Vermonters do for fun? We have bonfires! These pictures were taken at my buddy Michaels house in Johnson, Vermont.

Poor Casey

So Casey had her hip surgery this past Thursday. Come to find out on the operating table that she had tore her ACL as well. So poor Casey is on bed rest for the next couple of weeks.

Would not be Vermont without some barns

The images are a little blury because I was taking them out my car window driving back from NRG in Hinesburg, Vermont.(About 20 min from my house)

NRG

This is the NRG building. NRG is a company that builds wind turbine measuring equipment to determine viable locations for wind turbines. The building is LEED Gold Certified. The solar panels on the roof and on the lawn provide for 85% of the energy used to run the building. This hopefully might be a place where I work after I graduate. I was fortunate to be able to tour this building through my sustainability class.

Gully's First Swim!

So Gully took his first swim today. Up until today he has always enjoyed playing in the water, but never taking his feet off solid ground. Casey, my other furry haired roommate is suffering from a bad hip so instead of leaving her behind, Steph chooses to take her around the resevoir in a baby backpack.