It seems like a long time ago that Martha, Tom, Laura and Jacklyn said their good-byes and wished me well.
Just wanted to let you know that the soap is wonderful, the shorts have been out in the garden and the steak sauce has been lapped up.
Bill’s going to Sudbury tomorrow for a check-up. He’s doing well.
More school right around the corner. Hope Martha and Laura are as excited about that as I am.
Yeah ! School is officially out for summer for everyone. For Laura, Steve, Peter and Brian that means 11 weeks vacation and 10 1/2 for Martha :>)
We started off with both getting summer hair cuts (mine dyed and foiled and Laura trimmed and bangs sculptured), Shopping at the mall and going out for lunch. Ahhh what a life.
Tom is out in the fields but very happy to have both his girls home and plans are in the making for me to RELAX.
Ian has posted some more pictures in his Fernie cottage album. Check them out here. Things seem to be progressing nicely. I love following the progress.
Thanks Ian for letting me know about the album “resizing” problem. All should be working properly now and pictures have been moved to their proper place.
We’re all anxiously waiting for Kristen to return and upload some snaps from her 21st Birthday trip to Cancun, MX. Happy Birthday Kristen and CHEERS!
I just wanted to add our voice to the winter festivities. With the wind considered, our temperatures have been at a day time high in the -30’s and a night time low of -50’s for almost 2 weeks. We can hear the cash registers ringing all the way from Natural Gas City to Amwell Street. We plan on selling the silver to be able to pay the fuel bill. Oops… we don’t have any silver.
I can imagine the energy companies frustration with all the street people. They get to lie on the heat vents for nothing.
Happy New Year everyone. Last night Eileen hosted a lovely party on Bramsey Drive. Cindy and Gig and kids joined us while Stevo headed out to his own shindig party for 16 year olds. We indulged in a wine called Fat Cat, more Shiraz Cabernet, crab cakes, bacon wrapped scallops, green apple caramel dip, pate, hot salami and cheeses for snacks. A late night dinner was served. Eileen outdid herself again with a lovely honey glazed spiral ham, green beans, whipped squash, asparagus and scalloped potatoes for our late night supper. Desserts were enjoyed after the ball dropped in Time Square. We retreated to the hot tub with wine glasses in hand and enjoyed toasting in the new year with bubbly champagne. Everyone behaved themselves (not) and were in bed by 3:30 am. The boys server 10:30 Mass at St Christopher’s this morning followed by a lovely brunch at Cecile’s. Today we rested!
This morning,Tom drove me down to the TLC Laser Eye Centre to under go an enhancement to my left eye. The procedure was painless and took all of 13 seconds. It is again a miracle to be able to see clearly! 
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Jaclyn got hit by a mini-van on Thursday night while dashing across the street to catch a street car connection. She was on her way home from dropping off a project at 11pm and tried to get to the stop before it left. BAM! She goes flying about 6 feet in the air and hits the pavement skidding. The minivan gets the front end smashed up, the windshield broke in, and Jaclyn’s on the ground wondering what happened.
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It’s report card crunch again and this year Martha was forced to change to a different report card program. The new program has a very steep learning curve, but it’s claimed to be so much better. She just doesn’t have time to learn all the advanced functions (recently released to the teachers). No in house training provided, just instructions to the teachers to get comfortable with it. 
It was so much faster for her (ages ago) when they wrote report cards out in long-hand.
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Greetings from Fairbanks, Alaska from Jean and Bill.
We arrived in Fairbanks yesterday at 7:45 local time. Of course Jean and I are trying to adjust to the 4 hour time zone difference. This morning at about 5 am here (9am Kentucky time) I was ready to roll out and start the day. It was a good thing that Rhett was pulling a 7a-7p shift at the hospital and he was about ready to start getting ready to head out for the day and I was not the only early riser. Before long everyone was up checking out a part of Sunday morning that they were not normally used to seeing.
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Catherine arrived last night, and we are expecting the Royalty family to pull in late this afternoon. Rosemary and John are expected this weekend and then the whole Gillier clan will be together for the first time in 10 plus (?) years.