Sober Villagers

Anyone else watching it?

We're having a mini party at my house.

Wasn't planned just happened that way.


Pretty good so far..

Hiya haylemac,

Welcome to the sober village.
Nice to see you here.
Let us know if we can be of any help.

Howdy Marie,
:bye:
Welcome to the sober village.
Glad you are here. Please make yourself at home.

Dear Friend,

It is that time of year again to share with you our adventures in this journey we call life. 2008 has been another year of magic and wonder...


Lori almost 3, is quite a talker. She continues to amaze the professors at the University with her intuition in foreign languages. She intends to spend this holiday transcribing War and Peace into Arabic and Cantonese.


Chris, now 5, is growing in leaps and bounds. When he got his first set of building blocks he seemed quite interested in large buildings. This year he designed his first skyscraper and ground was broken in Hong Kong for the new "Little Man" Towers. It is great to have a budding architect at home as he made a new addition to the house and a wonderful gazebo for our garden. Martha Stewart will be filming her next show here in April.


Betsy had a very busy year. In between her work as President of the American Cancer Society and Senior Partner of Goldman Sachs, she introduced a line of children's novels and hand made active-wear. She remains occupied with the children and has introduced them to yoga and power walking this year.


Dave was immersed with his Graduate School studies, and managed to co-author a paper on Multidimensional Customer Attribute Analysis by Conjoint Survey and accept a Nobel Prize for his discoveries in Quantum Physics. Along the way Dave took three startups through their IPO. We are proud of his work serving on the Board of Directors of IBM, Coca-Cola, and Walt Disney.


Dad was also active with the kids teaching Lauren ballet and helping to lower Chris' handicap to 5.


We were able to squeeze a little traveling in this year. We started in Aspen, went to Belarus, the Congo, Denmark, Ethiopia, the Falklands, Greenland, Holland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Venezuela, and Zaire. Our trip sailing our new boat around the world was a great experience for the kids, we learned to communicate with dolphins and discovered a new region of deep water volcanoes.


And Sergeant, our German shepherd, learned to speak Latin. Other than that, it was a very quiet year. So from our household to yours, all the blessings of the season and may your New Year be prosperous.


We found out yesterday that we won the $150 Million Powerball Lottery.

Betsy, Dave, Chris & Lori

Hiya brandon

Welcome to the village.
Glad to have you here.

Hi Julia,
Welcome to the sober village.
Make yourself at home.
Glad you are here.

The last tenant in this cottage had satellite dishes affixed to the side of the roof and the deck. I didn't like them, so I offered them up on Freecycle, and a lovely retired couple came to dismantle them and take them away. While removing the roof-level dish (which was not attached to the roof, just to the wooden side of it), he told me that there was a hole in the roof: an area about one foot by two feet had no shingles or tarpaper, and he could see bare wood and more shingles missing in the center of the roof. He said he was surprised I had not experienced any leaks, and that I should definitely get it fixed before winter.

Of course I immediately informed the landlord, who is really nice but flaky. He said there was a chance he'd come down last weekend, but he never showed. Now it's Thursday, and I've not heard from him, so I guess this weekend is unlikely as well. We have three rain storms predicted over the next ten days, with periods of sunny warmish weather in between.

My question is: is the ceiling going to be ok in the meantime? Does anyone have experience with this? How concerned should I be?

Thank you in advance, and HAPPY Thanksgiving!

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