Halloween

Had a great day today. We took a walk at Knight Point State Park and a great Halloween night. Lots of trick or treaters. Here are a couple pics. i also have a few new videos uploaded to my youtube channel at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Richeychsapchem?feature=mhee

Campfire fun

So tonight Beth made some really good bean soup with cornbread. Absolutely wonderful, but we'll pay tomorrow :)

Then after it got dark I started a campfire and we enjoyed some good conversation and some mediocre guitar playing, but it was loads of fun. After playing I decided to do a few fake wolf howls for the neighbors benefit. To my surprise from down the hill by the water treatment plant I started getting some response from the local coyote pack. First a couple of yips and barks, followed by the clearest, most classic coyote howl I have ever heard. It was exactly dead on and it was pretty darn close. It was eerie, exciting, and made me shiver and smile at the same time.

We squeezed a bit closer to the fire, continued for a bit and let the fire burn down and then came in. We have begun to carve our pumpkins but will take a break to watch Amazing Race.

Beth and I have both taken personal days for tomorrow and have plans to go somewhere for a day hike. Nothing fancy just some time out in nature. It will be close by... no trips to NY for this.

Weekend

Did a lot this weekend including but not limited to Heading over Smuggler's notch, shopping in Stowe, then hitting the Haunted Forest in Williston last night. Today we relaxed, but made time to pick up our pumpkins. Needless to say puppy is tired.

Yes

Tentative Teacher Contract in place. Vote to accept tomorrow afternoon.

Yeah!!!! no strike this year.

Creepy

We drove past this right after it happened. Fire trucks were just getting there and the police were just getting the tarps out. We weren't sure what was going on, but predicted it wasn't good. We were heading to the Xmas tree shop.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111016/NEWS02/111016013/Waterville-man-kills-himself-outside-Williston-state-police-barracks

Lucky 13

13 More Meetings!!!!!!!!


YES

Now it's time to relax, get out and see some leaves, get a nice meal, and if the rain holds off have a nice campfire.

Powderpuff

Here are some pics from the spirit week powderpuff game. Me the coaches and the Senior Girls. Go Dirty Dozen.

Niquette Bay

Here are some pics from today. It was another great day. We took a walk down to the lake to let Denali swim. Then we headed to the orchard to get some more apples while they are still good and fresh.

In dealing with the issues around posting comments on my blog, I had to make a few changes. Hopefully it will work for you.

Thanks for the nice comment Sis about the playing. That was my Ibenez. It has nice sound. Very mellow and the strings really ring. Although unless it is amped in, it doesn't have much oomph to it. It is not very deep so the sound does not amplify well on its own. This is great for playing at home, and it's okay for on-stage and amp'd in, but it's tough when outside/campfire-ish playing. I guess that's why I have 3 other regular acoustics and a 12 string around. lol

1/2 way

So far so good.

We enjoyed a fantastic hike around floodwood pond on the Adirondack rails. We followed this up with lunch in Lake Placid and then caught the ferry home with the Bates College track and field team.

Now we get an hour or so of rest before the barn dance.

Coffeehouse

So Beth and I have been absolutely crazy busy and will probably contiue to be. Here's a recap:

1. My graduate work is progressing but the amount of work per time given to do it is getting increasingly insane.
2. Beth's graduate work... well if you see what I just wrote about mine, then you get the idea.
3. Spirit week was an absolute success. My seniors won every contest. The banner they made was awesome. Picture to come later.

Beth and I will be taking tomorrow off for ourselves. Heading out for a fall hike in the Adirondacks followed by a Lake Placid dinner. We need it.

Tonight I played in the first coffeehouse of the year. It was my choice for the song. Because of this I was actually supposed to sing as well (that's usually what is done) but I convinced them that this was not a good idea. Surprisingly this was harder to do than you would think. Anyway I had fun. The shoes I am wearing are my Ape slippers. It fit well. I was going to upload the video on the blog here but have decided to simply give the link to my youtube channel. I have a few other videos I am in linked there.

Have fun http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hpvj4LJA3us&feature=channel_video_title