Katy (and the whole 5th grade class) graduated from the D.A.R.E program. I am not sure why it is a big deal, the only thing Katy seemed to learn is that if you only have a small amount of pot, you don’t get in too much trouble.
Month: January 2006
Friday night was opening night for Katy’s school play. All went well. Elizabeth got a few pictures. Susan and George went tonight. The rest of the family will be going Sunday afternoon, then it will all be over. I will post more pictures after the play on Sunday. UPDATED with pictures from the final show. Lots of movies and pictures.
Katy is Becky, the perky cheerleader in her school play. These pictures were taken at a dress rehearsal the other night. Not too many pictures of Katy, but I was really just trying out the camera and lens to see how it would do in the light.
We did just a little bike riding today. Katy did some roller skating. Sam rode many different things. It was good to get out and play. Margaret is getting very fast on her really cool bike. On a slightly different note, Bruce sent us these pictures of our house in the snow.
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Snowy House Pictures
Here is the page for the pictures that Bruce took of our house in the snow. They are very nice. We were up there again the weekend of the 23rd. If you want to see details of all the walls and wiring and stuff look here.
Sam had his first ski lesson. It went VERY well. Margaret had a lesson as well. After her lesson, she was skiing much better. (I think a little encouragement from having Sam do well was a good thing). They are both riding the lift now. Katy and I skied most of the day, then Elizabeth and Katy skied for a while. While they were skiing, Sam, Margaret, and I played in the snow near the Ice Bar. They showed off their new skiing abilities and I watched. Katy is now faster than Elizabeth (but that is not saying a whole lot).
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Construction Update
More progress on the construction. The rough electrical is supposed to be done on Thursday. The plumbers are supposed to be there right now. The fireplace is (mostly) in. The gypcrete gets poured starting on the 23rd. Then insulation and drywall.
We also got a couple of small benches/walls near the front door. The masonry is pretty much done. They will return and do the landing in front of the door in the spring.
We went to Tahoe again for the week between Christmas and New Years. It was an interesting week. We were able to see our house without scaffolding up around it. We went to a lighting store. I was able to get all of the communications wire run in the house. We had a flood. It rained a lot. We spent a lot of time in the dark.
We spent most of the week there with the Schwartz’s. As always, it was mostly good fun. However, I woke up early Saturday morning and stepped in a big puddle of water on the way to the bathroom. The bottom floor of Bruce’s house flooded because of all of the rain and the fact that the culvert up the street was not working. Then about 11am that day, we lost power. There was lots of rain, lots of roads were closed including I-80. The next morning we woke up and still had no power, so we left. Only to get back to Los Gatos and not have power for a little over another day. Somehow, all of this was my fault. [Now, after 60 hours without power, we have electricity again, and Rusty is not in trouble.]
The most amazing thing about the house not having scaffolding up around it anymore, was not how it looked from the outside, but how it looked from the inside. Now you can actually see how nice it will be inside once we get it done. In the great room, it seems like you are pretty much standing outside because of all of the big windows.