Happy Anniversary

Hi Everyone,

I suppose you've been wondering what we've been up to and as this is the first time I've updated the blog since September the answer is 'Not a Lot'.

Yesterday (Friday) was our first anniversary since arriving in Gillette. It's hard to believe we've been away so long and it will be good to catch up with everyone when we are home at Christmas.

Summer is almost gone, it's 2C outside at the moment although the sun is shining and it's a beautiful day. It was -3C when we got up this morning.

In our last blog we mentioned that we were off to Denver and would be going to the baseball. We had a great time in Denver and the game was good fun but the Colorado Rockies; the closest to a home team we have, were flogged 13 to 1. Since then however they have won 27 out of 28 games and made it into the world series against the Boston Red Sox so it's been interesting to follow their fortunes.

On the way back from Denver we came through Fort Laramie on the Oregon Trail. It's an historic fort that was part of the westward movement of people in the early 1800s. I can't say it would have been a lot of fun living there; it must have been freezing in winter and very isolated back then.




Not far from there we drove past one of the abandoned missile silos from the cold war. It's hard to tell what they are now but there is a ring of them around from South Dakota, Nebraska and Wyoming.

October saw our first snow fall and it was nice to see although it didn't last long. At this time of year the weather is really changeable, going from below zero to the mid 20s in a day or two and then back again. Snow was predicted again for last night but nothing eventuated..

These two photos are looking out our front door on Sunday morning after the snowfall.





Gae went off to Custer State park one Monday with one of the wives from work to see the buffalo round up. Those of you who have been over would remember we drove through there on our way to Mt Rushmore.

Anyway, each year they get the herd in and separate out some for sale or you can buy a ticket to shoot one and have its head mounted on a plaque; I think it's about $10,000 to do that.




Since then we've been back to Denver twice so Gae could do a glass fusion course on the weekends. We've had a great time and it's been good to get a bit of 'city' life.
Last weekend we had plans to drive across the rockies to Craig so I could work at the mine on the Monday but on Saturday night and Sunday morning there was 14 inches of snow in the mountains and the freeway looked pretty slippery so we decided against it.

This last photo is some of what the artist has produced in her few days of class.

Pretty talented really.



We don't have a lot planned until we go to Nashville for four days in late November. There has been some talk of me going to Perth in ealy November but I don't know what will come of that if anything.

Good news is though, that I've been asked to come to Brisbane on the 1st of December so we're both flying over then and will stay until after new year. We haven't told the boys yet and may just turn up on the door.

That would be a surprise!!

We'll end up having 5 weeks in Australia instead of the planned 4 so that will be good. Our plans for Victoria and Sydney haven't changed, we'll just fly from Brisbane to Melbourne instead of LA to Melbourne. We will come back to Gillette a week earlier than planned.

That's about it for the update. It will be great to see everyone in a month or so; it's not far away. Gae's off in Rapid City today fo some retail therapy with a group of ladies and I'm just going to take it easy.

See you all soon.