Easter Weekend

Hope everyone’s Easter was enjoyable! It was sunny and 60 degrees here. We did have a traditional Easter dinner with ham and sweet potatoes. There is not a whole lot going on to tell you about. John has been working his 60 hours a week. This past week he did not run out of hours, so he did work overnight on Friday. 60 is the maximum hours for a local 5 day a week driver. Friday and Saturday nights I worked by myself. Everything went ok. We did have a ten year old in! This is his second time he was in since I started. We don’t have any uniforms to fit him. He wears the same size that Lori’s 6 year old Grandson wears! Lori is the Assistant Director.

I never did tell you how we came about the house we are moving into in May. It all started in December back in Pennsylvania. I posted an ad on Craig’s List (free on-line classified). It said that we where moving to Montana and looking for a place to rent that allows dogs. It also said that we where handy with house repairs. Sue responded to our ad in January saying that she would have a place in April that could use some of our handiwork. However we obviously needed something a little sooner. So we kept talking back and forth. And finally had to tell that we where going to stay where we where. Her rent is higher, and I would need to buy a car since it is in Stevensville (about 20 miles north of my work). Well then John got this better paying job in Missoula which is 65 miles north of Hamilton. AND when she’s home alone, Daisy started howling very loudly, keeping awake the other tenants!! So I emailed her to find out if the house was still available. And she was very excited to find out that we changed our mind! She was not looking forward to finding a new tenant and contractor, from Chicago. She is living in Chicago to take care of some ill family, but is keeping places here in Montana so she has reason to visit, and something to move back to. So we, especially John, can’t wait to move onto the 10 acres that comes with the house.

Well…that’s all for now. Don’t forget to check out the pages about the 2008 Capitol Christmas Tree!