The Schweitzer’s Place

Here are the pictures of our Jeep. It has about 85K miles on it. It is a V8 with all time, on demand 4 wheel drive (Quadra Trac II On demand  4WD System). The tires of Toyo tires.

Edmunds Pricing Sheets:

Today was a very SHORT walk with the dogs. I went for a nice run yesterday that only had a minor flip/fall. Yes I completely wiped out yesterday — must have watched too much wipeout on TV and tried to act it out. The good thing yesterday was the lack of bugs — and I didn’t even use bug spray. Well there were just a couple bugs, but since I was running they had trouble “sticking” to me.

Today was a whole different story! I lathered up with my OFF Deep Woods Sportsmen spray and took the dogs for a nice long walk. Well that is what

As you can see we are on the Free Fun theme this year. We love yogurt — especially the frozen stuff. Deanna loves cows and farms too. On a few trips to the Manchester Regional Airport we have passed by Stonyfield Farm in Londonderry, NH. This is where they make some great organic yogurt. If you don’t read carefully, when researching the visitor’s center, you might assume you can take a tour of the facility. We didn’t read carefully….

Anyway, they are doing construction (growing – which is great for them!) and the facility is not set up for tours. However, the visitor’s center still has a short 12 minute video explaining a bit about the yogurt factory. The great part is that they make you taste all sorts of yogurt.

Today we strolled around the North Bridge in Concord, MA. This is where the first shot of the revolutionary war began. It is pretty interesting to walk where major events in history took place. That is one of the nice parts about living in New England. There is no shortage of historical places here.

As you can see there is a lot to look at and Lane is taking a closer look at the bronze place on the large stone where a small part of the story is told.

Today we took the kayaks out on the Nashua River. We tossed our kayaks in the calm river at 111 and 199 in Pepperell. The boat launch there is for car top boats and it is a little messy if you aren’t careful. Ms. Graceful Deanna :) almost fell in getting out of the boat. But don’t let that scare you as she almost falls in EVERY time we take the kayaks out.

The water was calm and the weather was great! We were the first ones there, but cars quickly showed up after we left. On the way up the river we saw a little raccoon cross the river in front of us. Our short trip took us to an old bridge where some kids were jumping in the water. We passed about 10 different boats in four different groups on the way back. It was a really nice day for a nice little paddle. Time for a Sunday nap — I am still recovering from my trip to Florida….

We are getting a u-haul trailer and moving our goodies to New Hampshire tomorrow. Thank God the weather should be nice to us tomorrow.

Our new place is a nice little apartment. Some serious downsizing going on! But we are telling ourselves that it is preparing us for A European Lifestyle. At least it will make the trip overseas a little easier if we don’t have all the junk we have today.

Live Free or Die – our new state motto. And who knows, we might score higher than a zero on the next election….

Here are a few words and a bunch of photos from the famous Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier Tiger Cruise with Darin and Brendan. The Schweitzer boys spent a few days at sea on an impressive aircraft carrier – this was pretty fascinating. Brendan and I were allowed to ride on the Eisenhower Aircraft Carrier from Florida to Virginia as Darin was on his way home. Brendan, Brad and a thousand others boarded the ship in Florida and cruised up to Virgina with a portion of the remaining sailors.

The last day or two we planted many of the seedlings that we started indoors. Today, I took off work a couple hours early and finished planting the seeds with Deanna. If all grows well, we’ll have all sorts of goodies to snack on this year. I think we’ll have a couple more plantings to fill in some gaps and tweak things a bit. But, we have a pretty good start here.

I’ve included a sketch of the garden that I hope to improve. I think I am going to give Google Sketchup a try to plot this out. But don’t wait around for that….

Now that we have our garden planted (at least mostly planted) it is going to freeze tonight. We hurried and created a make-shift cover for three of the garden beds. In the process of pounding in the stakes I smashed my hand. With our luck the sheets will blow off, ripping a plant out on the way. Then the rest of the plants will freeze and die. Well garden, it was fun while it lasted. We’ll give it another try if all gets messed up tonight. As long as we don’t get wind, it will be OK.

It was the first truly warm day in New England. When I took the car for a short trip it registered in the high 80′s. I almost felt too hot for a minute, then I remembered how much I like the warmth. It may take another day to get used to it, but I am glad spring is finally here.

We spent a good portion of the day working in the yard. This year we are building four different beds for a garden and a few pots with herbs and salsa necessities. The beds are simple square wooden border beds each 8 foot by 4 foot. We also built a compost pile with some 1/2 inch hardware cloth. It is almost full already, but that is OK.

Bailey and Brandon played in the yard all day. It was as usual — Bailey eating grass, dirt and whatever else he could find while Brandon played with a ball the WHOLE TIME. I know we will ALL sleep good tonight.