Ahhh..the easy credit days...













People are saying that the mortgage process has gotten ALOT more difficult these days. I will admit for the past ten years , i have taken my share of advantage on the all the Zero percent transfer balance offers in my mailbox to move debt around like dirt under the rug. Since I sold the house - I have been debt free, and would like to keep it that way. So all the credit lines are open and the cards just keep getting filed away. I would close the lines - but i have read that the "available" credit affects how you are evaluated for MORE credit. And we will be needing a mortgage soon...... so in the files they stay...

Happy Holidays! [again..]












Eric and I managed to get Chilipepper pried out of my mechanics hands at 9:30 pm Friday night. [ It will still need some additional bearing work..] After a stop at Lowes - it was off to Jones Pond for the weekend with an arrival around 11:30pm. We spent Saturday with our friend Jeff digging at our site. I started a big project at the site last July and er... kinda left it all winter. Basically a giant trench and a pile of R.R. ties. I was supposed to go down a couple of times before Memorial day to restart the project - but Chilipepper ended up being in the shop 4 weeks! The van needed some odd parts and the garage was really busy..... so except for mowing the grass last weekend - this was the first chance we had to work on it. We are building up a retaining wall with a french drain behind it. Once it is complete, we will have it filled with gravel. It was give us a wide [ and dry!] level driveway for camping. I was hoping to have it done by next week for family weekend - i have my sister and brother's families coming down for some camping and cooking! But ... the second load of R.R. ties never arrived... [ next week they tell me...] so it will probably be finished sometime in the end of June. We made good progress on Saturday.. so now i am trying to think of anything i should do before we fill it in. So I am looking at low voltage lighting and some additional drainage ideas in the meantime.......

Merry Christmas!















-Just got the photos together from our holiday party back in december. Our friend Gerry took them for us while we played party hosts. A very fun time. It was great that so many of our friends made the trip!

WTF?



Well, it is April 30th here in sunny syracuse and the weather man says it will be 50 today [ ha!] right now it is 39 and it is SNOWING. meanwhile you can hear my neighbor MOWING HIS LAWN.