Trimming the tree 2010

John was able to actually work some over-time this weekend, both Saturday and Sunday!  Molly and I decided to go out to breakfast at the Castleton Diner then get a tree.  We ended up going to Brown's stand on Rt. 30.  They had a great selection and we didn't have to cut it down. (Which is what we usually do when John is with us).  We loaded it in the truck and came home, moved furniture around and got out the ornaments and lights from storage.  John came home around 3:30 and decided we needed to bring in pellets.  So....he fired up the Kubota and we brought in 50 bags.  (these are placed in the storage closet behind the pellet stove.  After we finished we were pretty wiped so decided to eat dinner.  I had slow cooked a venison roast all day with mushrooms, onions, red wine and tomatoes.  It was delicious!  Also had baked sweet potatoes with it.

Last year we bought a new tree stand, much easier to use, less grumbling from John!

The dynamic duo!

The senior observer.

Oh, the lights...always fun.

A Cosmo or two will make things better!

Cute Setter dog.

The finished tree!

Here are some pictures from trimming the tree.....

Molly riding Dolores at Colby Sawyer

This is Dolores a draft cross that Molly rides sometimes for her lesson.  Her favorite is still Monty the big gray thoroughbred.  I'll try to add some jumping pictures too.

Winter walk

Had a little more fluffy snow the other day.  Molly and I decided to take a walk out back.  Not able to bring Austin anymore :(

Some random pictures

The view from the back of the ambulance.

FAHC E.D.

The crew.

Had some strange days at the E.D.  Some crazy busy and some pretty quiet, although we never say the word quiet!  I haven't had to ride on a transport in over a year and last week I went on two.  The first was a bad MI patient who had chest pain since the previous morning (while driving his tractor trailer).  Sure enough he was having a heart attack.  The helicopter wasn't flying as the weather was bad so I got to ride along as we had given him thrombolytics.  Usually the medics can do all the transfers, but it someone is intubated, on Diprivan, receiving blood or had thrombolytics a nurse gets to go.  Anyway it was a peaceful ride, we gave lot's of good drugs and the patient slept most of the way.  He was so grateful for finally being almost pain free.  The ride to Burlington takes about an hour and 15 minutes with lights and sirens.  Middlebury is always fun as no one wants to get out of the way.  Here are a couple of pictures..oh and the next day I went  on a ride again with a bad head injury.  Again made it up safely.  I always feel a little guilty as I have a medic and sometimes even a respiratory therapist riding along and we leave the department short taking care of many patients and I only have one!

Thanksgiving 2010

Beef soup on Wednesday, delicious!

The bird.

The helpers!!! (Not)

Loading up on coffee with the new Keurig.

Green Bean casserole.

Making the deviled eggs look sooo professional!

The gravy Queen!

Molly did the carving.

The happy family.....

and sooo much food, but very tasty and great for leftovers!

John's deer.

We had a fantastic meal on Friday...I had to work on Thanksgiving so we just celebrated the next day.  It was pretty slow on Thursday..just one helicopter transfer to DHMC first thing in the morning with an MI patient.  Molly and I got up early on Friday and got everything ready...bought a plain old Hannaford's bird (15 lbs.) instead of the expensive fresh Stonewood farms turkey and it was delicious!  Lots of other goodies too and Martha joined us at 4 pm.  John called just before this to say that he got a deer!  It was a nice 5 pointer that he shot below Dan Boyce's home.  (Dan got his deer on our land or somewhere between our land and Robin's)  He was very excited!  131.5 lbs.  I'm also including a little video of the gravy Queen.  Martha always makes gravy and it's always good.  Here are some pictures.

John's 2010 deer

So here are more pictures of John's deer.  It was 5 points, 131.5 pounds, shot on Dan Boyce's property.