Hi everyone! Hope all are surviving their variations of winter weather as best they can. We are only dealing with the -30F wind chills until Tuesday when we are expecting about a foot of snow and then Thursday we are expecting an ice storm that they are already saying could be similar to that of the Northeastern United States and then turning to snow for another half of a foot before it ends on Friday...Just think, winter does NOT begin until Sunday!!!
In other great news we got our new house! We close on the 8th of January! We have enough left over (about $8,000.00 below listed price) to allow us to put in brand new hard wood throughout the entire house! I am getting brand new cabinets as well as new paint, light fixtures, sinks(including kitchen)and my future in-laws are giving us a new dishwasher for Christmas and my Mother is having a new furnace and all new duct work put in for us. Since we already have the house we are living in we do not have to hurry too much on the work but my future brother-in-law is taking a weeks vacation to do all of the work on the new house when we close! We hope to be moved in by the end of January! The list of new things we are putting in is almost too long to list. It will be nice to have four bedrooms in place of one. A living room with a fire place, 2 half bathrooms and a full bath, a HUGE family room with NEW French doors to the deck and large fenced in yard and sky lights in the family room. The totally redesigned kitchen and a finished basement with a new laundry room and rec room with wood stove! It is just south of Fort Dodge which has Holly happy and I am happy as it is more rural than what we have now. I have not been there without seeing deer or turkeys or pheasant in the front yard! Needless to say we are very excited.
In the work world I have been "officially" promoted to Chef de Cuisine and received a nice raise to go with the title. I am also officially a contestant in the Iowa Pork Producers Taste of Elegance Competition (menu and recipes to follow!) January 13, 14, and 15 the hotel is hosting a film cast and crew filming a Ray Liotta film that is being filmed throughout Iowa and the mid-west. Two of our rooms and a few other areas are having scenes shot in them. We are working in a support roll along with the catering crew that is traveling with the movie types. Pretty neat way to wind down from the Holiday season!!!
In other fun things we had a blast at Mannheim Steamroller last night!!! I have never seen anything like it!!! What a blast...
Sorry to have rambled but that is life for me and mine in Iowa and why I have not been around all that much of late. Hope all is well for all of my friends and family here as well!?!
In other great news we got our new house! We close on the 8th of January! We have enough left over (about $8,000.00 below listed price) to allow us to put in brand new hard wood throughout the entire house! I am getting brand new cabinets as well as new paint, light fixtures, sinks(including kitchen)and my future in-laws are giving us a new dishwasher for Christmas and my Mother is having a new furnace and all new duct work put in for us. Since we already have the house we are living in we do not have to hurry too much on the work but my future brother-in-law is taking a weeks vacation to do all of the work on the new house when we close! We hope to be moved in by the end of January! The list of new things we are putting in is almost too long to list. It will be nice to have four bedrooms in place of one. A living room with a fire place, 2 half bathrooms and a full bath, a HUGE family room with NEW French doors to the deck and large fenced in yard and sky lights in the family room. The totally redesigned kitchen and a finished basement with a new laundry room and rec room with wood stove! It is just south of Fort Dodge which has Holly happy and I am happy as it is more rural than what we have now. I have not been there without seeing deer or turkeys or pheasant in the front yard! Needless to say we are very excited.
In the work world I have been "officially" promoted to Chef de Cuisine and received a nice raise to go with the title. I am also officially a contestant in the Iowa Pork Producers Taste of Elegance Competition (menu and recipes to follow!) January 13, 14, and 15 the hotel is hosting a film cast and crew filming a Ray Liotta film that is being filmed throughout Iowa and the mid-west. Two of our rooms and a few other areas are having scenes shot in them. We are working in a support roll along with the catering crew that is traveling with the movie types. Pretty neat way to wind down from the Holiday season!!!
In other fun things we had a blast at Mannheim Steamroller last night!!! I have never seen anything like it!!! What a blast...
Sorry to have rambled but that is life for me and mine in Iowa and why I have not been around all that much of late. Hope all is well for all of my friends and family here as well!?!
"Ponder well on this point: the pleasant hours of our life are all connected, by a more or less tangible link, with some memory of the table."-Charles Pierre Monselet, French author(1825-1888)