Now we're cooking

Well all right, we finally hear from the Conn man with a great post!  Thanks so much Connsie Connie Connor!  Keep poking Alex.

And those of you haven't had a chance to check out Cailin's latest pickies from England there are a couple of great shots of her and her roommates on the way to the library.  Cails be sure and take time to enjoy yourself, you know it shouldn't be all work, work, work!

We're right in the middle of foliage at the inn and it seems to be one long endless bus tour of old folks who walk only slightly better than Aunt Janice.  Erin had to take them on a walking tour of Middlebury today and I think they got as far as St Stephen's Episcopal Church and decided that was just about enough thank you very much.

The colors up in Ripton are about as brilliant as they've ever been but the winds are starting to pick up and it probably won't be long before the trees are bare for the winter.  Being in the mountains is really fun but I realized yesterday afternoon how much I miss the flocks of geese that make their way down the Champlain Valley corridor this time of year.  There are always one or two idiots who just can't quite figure out that V formation thing.  I love how you can hear them coming well before you can see them.

Girlie Girls - I have a great idea for a story if anyone is interested.  The working title is Post Office Box.  It is the story of a mail clerk who spends his entire day stuffing mail into post office boxes and never gets to see his customers but knows them by the conversations he hears through the box openings and by the mail they receive.  You could go with the romantic angle where he figures out P.O. Box 345 has a thing for P.O. Box 678 and how he sets it up.  Or make it a spy thriller because he overhears a conversation he shouldn't have and saves the world just in time.  What do you think, million dollar idea or what?  First drafts are due on Monday.  Gradsie, see if Jimmy Fallon wants to play the lead.

Well, gotta go.  I've got dinner tonight.  Steaks on the grill.  Red potatoes.  And spinach of course.  Can I get a woo hoo for Ben & Jerry's Coffee Heath Bar Crunch?

Love you all.  Peace.  Peter