Ashfield 250's biggest weekend of the year of celebrating 250 years of being a town, happened. Over all, it went quite well ( Read more... )

Another festival come and gone ( Read more... )

Funny thing with the hardware store yesterday. When we finally got there, turned out Gus from Cummington Supply had stopped in to let them know what had happened at their store, so we only had to fill in a few details. We exchanged some car horror stories and the ladies were so sympathetic that we also got chocolate :)

A little excitement on the way home...in Ashfield, nearly to our turn, we saw a man by a car at the side of the road on Rt. 116, waving a flashlight, so we started to slow down - then we saw the broken pieces of a tree spread across the road and pulled over. The tree came down in front of his house in a spat of heavy winds and a woman hit part of ( Read more... )

The carpenter was finally able to come last week to work on building stairs into the basement. He's squeezing the job in between other obligations, but they're mostly done -- enough that we can use them. I expect he'll finish them Monday or Tuesday (some risers and the railings). Really nice to be able to get to the basement without going outside ( Read more... )

I haven't been posting much here since we moved, in part because LJ is always signing me out -- even when doing something as simple as clicking on someone's post to comment or read comments. Turns out LJ uses some sort of dynamic loading process for their pages, which is not compatible with satellite. Satellite uses caching ( Read more... )

The housewarming party went very well! Not everyone who wanted to could make it, but there many could, and there will be other opportunities in the future for getting together. We gave tours and also learned more about the house from some folks who came here. Tasty food was had (thanks family, friends, and neighbors!), and I introduced one of my ( Read more... )

Oops, forgot to post here when we got home. Power and phone were back on when we got home. Got the minivan stuck in the driveway and had to dig it out twice before we could get it into its parking spot. From the blinking clocks we figured the power came back on around 2pm -- only a little over an hour before we got home, so pretty good guess on our ( Read more... )

Lost power and phone this morning. The UPSs on the PCs let us know when it happened. Currently at Elmer's as Lyle has some meetings today. I should have brought more work to do. He left me here while he went to check in on his mother and the chickens (all well), and drove to the other end of town to see what Rt. 112 was like (the road our road ( Read more... )

Sunday night was China Night at Mt. Holyoke College. Our kung fu school did demos to lead off both Act I and Act II and were really great! I've always enjoyed watching the demos, but they've definitely upped things a notch, some great choreography happening that's helping to showcase people's skills even more, and show a lot of the variety of ( Read more... )