the end of the holiday time off

We hope that all of you are ringing in the New Year with hopeful anticipation. Can’t wait to have a new government in a few weeks – but it likely really won’t be all that different! We can only hope for a new beginning!

We were really happy to have taken some time off during the holiday season and hope we did not inconvenience you too much with our lack of response to your emails when Chris was not here to reply as fast as she usually does. I went skiing at Bromley VT. We saw my brother Jim and Kim, and his twins Jared and David. Brian and Allie and Sadie were here for 5 days visiting from Maine. We tried to keep in touch with everyone else and likely hit the majority! We were nursing Alan after his heart valve replacement and he feels pretty good so far. He has lost some weight, is less mobile with the cold temperatures and luckily between the farm and the real estate business, can relax this time of year and work on getting well and resting.

We usually get to watch more movies in the winter when the sun sets so much earlier and the chores are fewer, so we’ve started running through our one movie at a time Netflix list much faster. Joe gave us our latest movie to watch – Zeitgeist. This is and seems to me to be a very well researched documentary covering a long range of history building up to present times in America and the world. Far reaching range of facts, amazing “coincidences”, and to me a sneak peek into the “people pulling the strings” behind the governments of the world. I always had this image of an invisible force of decision making in the background. Very Interesting. I have since sent for the ‘addendum’ at www.zeitgeistmovie.com So our next movie was a warm and funny story about an orangutan who needed to be freed from the lab and from the zoo environment called ‘Born to be Wild’– so we are pretty easy going in our choices of themes!

Allie helped me to set up a new blog that I have just started to write in often. My resolution would be to start journaling in this venue and keep everyone who is interested a bit more often with tidbits from the farm.

Hope you all are enjoying the winter with all of its sound advice for - bundle up for the cold and wear sensible shoes! Take care and Happy New Year, Nancy & Alan