Beating of the Dead Horse

Hey All!

Sorry again for the delay in the updates. Kimberly and i will get this down sometime. In the last week we have both started a blog and either something came up that prevented us from finishing it or, or when it was posted the internet went psycho and didnt post it, loosing the last 45 min of work.

ANYWAY, this is more of a redundant update.... sort of a beating of the dead horse. With all the usual info, its COLD, sunday at 11am when we went to church it was -20F. To be in that cold is not horrible, but anything exposed will burn after about 5 min of being out. When you breath in your breath crystalizes making it hard to take deep breaths. As mentoned the river has stopped, i figure in the next week or so locals will make thier way across it, yes i did mean LOCALS, NOT me and Kimberly. Maybe eventually we will head out on it but not so soon at all. One good thing is the locals have told us that its good when it doesnt snow for a while after the inital freeze because the snow just acts as a blanket over the ice not allowing it to get really thick, we have now gone a week with no snow and a stopped river.

Kimberly and I have been invited to an amazing womans house, it is actually this sister-in-law to the guy i talked about a couple blogs ago. Kimberly and I are excited for that! Plus we are pretty sure we have figured out our christmas plans, we want to go out snowboarding... we have both always wanted to but never hand the opportunity. Then for christmas we probably wont do an exchanging of gifts, instead we will each take like 250 dollars or so and get up WAY early the day after and hit all the sales. We are excited to get back to civilization... The pace is nice out here but im to young to have been worn out by city life yet, yes its way more stressful but its what i know and love, its a love hate relationship... kind of like loving someone who becomes a drug addict, (the city life being the drug addict) reguardless of how much crap they drag you through you still love them... maybe when im old like my dad ill appreciate it more (haha). Im still not thinking this winter is going to be any problem at all... I guess all im saying is you all dont have to worry about us moving up here, we are just fine in the portland area.

We do have just about everything here... we even have a freeway, formerly know as front street, or the street that TONS of people live on and even more people walk, ride, drive on. It seems like at about 10pm the speed limit raises, the other day we heard someone fly past the front of the store, we found out a day or 2 later that he was doing 105mph in the dark, on the citys most heavily traveled road (thats not saying much especially for that time of the night). But just about every night you can hear someone doing at LEAST 60 mph.

Kimberly is dealing with cabin fever a bit but we are working on getting out. A company that was up here had called me on Friday and asked me to take care of some issues that the inspector found with the job they did. They were up removing asbestos insulated waterlines in the old hospital. and insulating pipes in surrounding buildings. The told me they would pay me 250 dollars to cut one pipe down that was just hanging, it wasnt attached to anything on either end and it was just hanging down, i needed to cut it down or use wire to hang it up, fortunatly dale had a cordless sawzall that took me about 1 minute. We then had to go to another building and insulate two corners that were missed. 10 minutes later we were 250 dollars richer, and we got a nice walk across downtown in.

We will continue to work on keeping updated more regularly, after talking with my dad it seems the everyday stuff we take for granted is the stuff we need to write about, because its not everyday stuff for the people back at home. We love you all, I need to go get a shower and go to work... we are SLAMMED right now, we have TONS of freeze and TONS of pop (litterally tons), and it all has to go somewhere... so i have to go start moving it around. It actually kind of makes me laugh, Cynthia kept telling us that after the huge order that came in the week before they left got done it would be smooth sailing untill they came back for christmas, and we wouldnt have to touch that order because they would be here to do it... then 2 weeks after they leave we have probably recieved about 10-15k lbs of freeze and pop with what we have been told by the warbelows guy that delivers it is that we have alot more comming in today... so i have to go make room to get the rest of the stuff in.