some long awaited pictures

So here are some pics from the past few weeks. I'll give some captions with each:

Here is Hillary's Uncle George helping celebrate her Dad's birthday when she visited in September. Yes, he is using a blow torch to light the cake.

This is our dinning room upon first arriving. This is my dad and I putting the finishing touches on as we install a new chandelier. The room is a lovely red.

Next is the living room in progress. It is a fun yellowish green and I am wearing a hat so I don't get paint in my hair. At various times Hillary and I will finish painting and be out and about suddenly realizing that we have paint in some unknown spot. My favorite was the splotch of paint we saw behind Hillary's ear - I think I noticed at Crate and Barrel. The reason you don't see Hillary in many of these pictures is because she is always the one who remembers to take pictures. She does lots of the work but won't get the credit online.

This is one of our favorite cows in the West Hartford Cow Parade. It is called meloncowly - hahaha. West Hartford is joined by Istanbul, Marseille, Milano, Copenhagen and other cities as they currently host cow parades. It is funny to see West Hartford on that list.

Last but not least is Hillary (finally a picture of her) as Dad shows her the controls on his new four wheeler. We both took cruises around the farm and had a blast. I was almost trapped in the corn field you see in the background. I was going down this path trying to get back to the house and it kept getting narrower and narrower until I was afraid of running the corn over. I couldn't get into reverse and was feeling a bit foolish, but it all got worked out. We went to Hillary's Dad's to relax for a day and then Hillary helped him out at a craft fair down in Albany, NY. The last picture is the set up for the craft fair.

This was quite a lengthy post, but we've had it coming since there have been all sorts of fun pictures we haven't shared.