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