Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. It truly is a time to be thankful for everything we have. Family,friends,food,home and a business sucessful enough to sustain our life style. We are traveling to Barbados with friends tommorrow for a week. We are truly fortunate to be able to do this. It takes committement and persistence and you can accomplish anything. A good old boy from Georgia was once asked how he was able to create his fortune. His reply was with persistence and perserverance you can piss a hole in a rock. An interesting thought but he is right. I will be gone until 12/9 so be healthy ,safe and happy . Peace Catmandon

Snow and rain

Good morning everyone, It snowed last night about two inches but the rain is washing it away now. It's like living in Seattle. Tommorrow we are going to refinish my son's hardwood floors in his new house as a gift to him and his wife Amy. This will be a practice run because we are just starting this service and who better to practice on. What can he do? Sue us. Highly unlikely. I am sure he will be quite pleased with the results. I am still feeling like crap. I hope this goes away soon, as we are going to Barbados on Friday and I don't want to be sick for that trip. I want to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving and I will talk to you soon. Peace Catmandon

Powerful message

Good morning everyone, I just watched a very powerful video from Chris Daughtery at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ylgchWR-Ig . Check it out. Well I am bitten by the flu bug today. Nothing to severe I hope. It is still cold but expected to rain later in the week. I recently sent all my siblings a letter to let them know how much I love them. They all live across the country or down in Florida so we dissconnect . When it is all said and done it really is all about family. My elder sister emailed me with a great response and I was delighted to hear from her. She is the spiritual one in our family and has taught me so much. She has no idea. I hope to hear from my brother and younger sister soon. I am still reading Wyatt Woodsmalls book People,Pattern, Power and it is an amazing study of human beings and thier interaction characteristics. I highly reccomend. Well, to another beautiful Monday in Vermont. Peace Catmandon

cold and snowing in Vermont

Good morning everyone, I am off to finish splitting the last two cords of wood for the winter. It is ten degrees and snowing. Good for Mt. Snow ski resort and the local economy. When it snows everybody is in a great mood. Resturant staff, snow plowers, ski area, retail stores, etc. When it doesn't it is a miserable place. I just hope that the current economic situation will not deter a lot of people from coming here on holiday. Check out this funny video we took in Chicago at the Star of Siam resturant. You may even know some of these people. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_IdfigReB8 Well, peace for now. Catmandon

Not going to blast until spring

Good morning everyone. I decided not to blast the cellar hole for our spec house until spring. I had everything lined up to do it on Mon and Tues the only thing I did not have was a plan for the house. It is just like me to put the cart in front of the horse sometimes. Well , if I blasted now I would be committed to building to the hole. It is to nice a piece of property to be this stupid. Therefore , I have decided to wait and get everything in place. The demolition guy will be bummed out but I assured him he can have the job in the spring. I will be splitting the rest of my firewood this weekend but it is going to very cold. I can tolerate it until next week when we go to BARBADOS and sit in the sun. Well thats it for now. Have a great day . Peace Catmandon

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another day in paradise

Good evening all, I just lit a fire, probably will have one going until April now. It is getting pretty cold . Jane,Heather Elizabeth and I went to Westminster this morning and sold a client the gold package for carpet cleaning. We also sold her on the green cleaning option. So, in six months she will get a free cleaning, she only will have to pay for the carpet protectorant. Goal is to sign up 50 clients in six months to our platinum or gold package. Heather Elizabeth and I will be doing audits together for awhile until she gets the hang of it, then I will send her out on her own. She has her own business on detoxifying home envionrments. It hopefully will be a good partnership. We have high hopes. I will meet with the demolition expert tommorrow and stake out the cellar hole for blasting and we will blast Monday and Tuesday. Can't wait. Now I will be able to start building in the spring. Going to go off the grid with solar and wind. I have a lot of research to do this winter. Peace for now Catmandon

Commercial for TV

Good morning everyone, We filmed our TV commercial yesterday and it is a minute and a half spot that will run four times per week for four months at 6:30 in the evening. It turned out great. It was an interview format. We started with a shot of our lead technician cleaning a carpet in the living room of a 1st class 2nd home community rec center called Kingswood in West Dover , Vermont. We were then asked questions pertaining to our services and cleaning methods , etc. It is very informative. It is 17 degrees here this morning and I believe there are some houses that are frozen already. The water damage season begins. I had a substanial water loss claim yesterday. So, here they come. I am meeting a demolition expert this morning on our property to see what it will cost to blast a cellar hole in solid ledge. Hopefully I will get enough fill from the hole to finish the road. My lead tech noticed right away that I had shaved my beard but others don't have a clue. It is a pretty good social experiment on how people observe things and others around them. Peace for now. Catmandon

Beard update and TV commercial

Good morning all, As I reported yesterday I saw my daughter and her family and no one realized that I had shaved my beard. What the hell is up with that. It will be an interesting day today as I interact with people that know me and see if they notice. It is a quite an experiment on human observation. We shall see. Jane and I are going to film our 60 sec spot for the local TV station today. It will run all winter. I think I will put it up on youtube with a link so that everyone can view and comment on it. I would appreciate your feedback. On a different note, I am reading a book called People,Pattern,Power by Wyatt Woodsmall. It is the best book I have ever read on human nature. He is the guy that trains the trainers, Tony Robbins, etc. I highly reccommend this book. It is hard to get so if your interested let me know and I will send you the info. Peace Catmandon

The missing beard experiment

Good morning everyone. My wife noticed that I had shaved my beard within just a few minutes of seeing my face and she is getting use to it. The interesting part is that we went to dinner last night with 8 other people who we have known for years and no one noticed that I had shaved my beard. At the end of the evening I mentioned the fact and they were suprised that they did not notice. Has everyone gotten so wrapped up in themselves that they don't take the the time to observe the rest of the world around them? We shall see. I am going to see my daughter and grandchildren today and I will bet that the children will notice before the adults. I will let you know. I need to write a piece today about how to create a allergen free living enviorment, so, that is my next task. Peace Catmandon

Beardless in Vermont

Rainy Saturday in Vermont. I just shaved my beard off. I have had a beard for the last 32 years and my wife has never seen me without it. She is still sleeping so it will be a suprise for her when she sees me. I hope she likes it. If not I can grow it back in about two weeks. When she comes down I will have breakfast ready for her this morning as she always makes mine every day. I have whole heartily decided to change my ways for the better. I think I will devote a good deal of time today to work on our marketing campaign for the winter months. We are filming a television commercial on Monday morning for our local station. I hope to get maximun results from it and I am sure we will. Well its time to do my yoga exercises and get sleepy head out of bed. Peace Catmandon

Chicago after the election

My wife and I went to Chicago on Wed , the day after the election. The energy in this town was electrifying. Everyone was up and buzzing about the future. Obama was having dinner down the street from our hotel. Didn't get a chance to see him though. We had dinner at Joe's one of the top three hot spots in the city. It took two days to get reservations. Dinner was awesome . We went with friends from Texas. I videoed the experience and will be posting on you tube in the near future. Everyone was great and got in on the show. Steve our waiter has been there for for over 25 years. They must make outraegous money. The service was immpecable and the food was out of this world. I highly recommend this resturant when in the windy city. Another fun place was the Star of Siam Thai resturant. We went there with 8 other friends and it was also very good and a lot of laughs. Another youtube video to be uploaded soon. I will provide links when this is done. The main reason for our trip was to take the Lifebook program offered by John Butcher. This program was one of the most powerful event we have ever attended. It was life tranformational. You actually create your own lifebook or blueprint for the rest of your life in 12 different categories. Check it out at www.mylifebook.com. If you mention my name Don Jones you can attend the Jan 22nd event for 1/2 price. This is a must for everyone and not to be missed. If you are not happy or sure of where you want to go with your life and how you are going to get there. You are presented with a beautiful book at the end of the session loaded with pictures from your life and a memory stick so that you can upload to your computer and update photos and text for the rest of your life. Everyone needs this direction. Thats it for now I will be talking to you soon. Love and peace Catmandon