Happy Halloween

Joe carving the pumpkin at East Hill farms. Us showing off our finished pumpkin. The other 2 pumpkins were carved by The Smith's and the Salvucci's.,

Alaska trip 2009

Here are some pictures of our trip to Alaska. We had the best time. We took a train ride 3000 feet up a mountain which was the Youkon trail. We also panned for Gold along with Jim and Jan. We visited Juneau, Ketchican and Skagway.

Great!

Went into work this morning to find the floor repaired! It was such a nice day not tripping in the hole all day. Our boss has been back for 3 days now. It is so nice to have her back. I hope she does not have to go out to another school for a while. Things run so much smoother with her here than her fill in who screams a lot.

Doing well up til now

I was doing good at PT until this week.. Becky my therapist added a bike exercise and I feel like I have run the marathon. My knee hurt, my hip and my back. Let's not forget I twisted my ankle at work so that is bothering me. It is the ankle on my left side....I can not win this school year. We have some floor tiles missing in my work area and I stepped wrong and twisted my ankle. I complained and they took me seriously. It is on the list to be repaired but it could take 3 months or so like the last time this happened.

I had a bad week at knitting too. Last Monday I could do nothing right. I decreased wrong and realized it 6 rows in. That needed to be taken out. Then I found a stitch just sitting there, I apparently took it off the needle but never knitted it. I was like a bumbling idiot. I am making progress on the vest for my mother. I have the back and one side done.

Just some thoughts

Physical Therapy is going well. I have my 6 exercises that are the standard ones I also have to do at home. Then each visit she adds one more to do while I am there. They are getting harder. This last visit she put a weight on my ankle. The best part is the heat and the ice. They both feel good.

My parents have been here since Tuesday. They are leaving on Sunday for Florida for 6 months. It has been a busy time for us all this week. They are visiting everyone under the sun and doing a lot of eating out.

Joe's annual Fowler, Fowler, Fowler Fall Folly is being canceled for the second time tomoorw due to bad weather. They will try for it one more time next Sunday the 25th. Let's hope the weather will cooperate.

We had the threat of snow this weekend. It did snow in some areas as close as Canton.. We however did not see a flake. Wouldn't it have been great for my parents to see snow before they left for Florida????

Columbus Day Weekend

We are here in Maine at our trailer getting it ready for the winter. It is always a sad time to be closing down and locking up for the season. As much as I like not traveling up here every chance that we get it's sad to know that we can't. It was a wet Summer this year but we still had a great time here.

We had our annual Camper's stew get together which hailed about 28 people this year. Not our lowest count and yet not the highest either. Joe still got a lot of fishing in but we didn't get much lake time. It is usually cooler at the lake and windier. With the rainy Summer the time was less for us to go to the lake. This was the first full Summer in our new trailer. It was so much more comfortable than the last one. I love it. It is so much fun up here and relaxing.

Another year has come to an end for us camping wise. It is time to bundle up our trailer for the cold Maine winter and look forward to seeing it again in the Spring. I will say the foliage is absolutely gorgeous up here right now. Thank goodness for New England.

Physical Therapy

Had my first session today. My therapist is Becky and she seems really nice. We did a lot of talking today so that she could get to know how I am doing and what I do for work ETC... she gave me about 8 exercises to do at home on the days that I will not be seeing her. It's all about strengthening my knee and the hamstrings. I am hoping that this will also help my hip not to hurt so much. I go back tomorrow for my second session. I hope this helps and will not be painful for me. I am feeling so much better I don't want to make it hurt.

This past weekend I worked on my afghan for the camper. Because I can not work on my mother's vest with her around. They will be here Tuesday for almost a week before heading to FLA. I will be working on the afghan.