Waiting

The house continues to move slowly. As Brian is worried about the age of the furnace (and it wasn't serviced last year), we asked for it to be maintenanced. The sellers removed an old, empty oil tank from the ground. The soil had low levels of contamination, one sample above the Vermont acceptable level. So, now the state will take samples and determine if a clean-up is needed. So, we wait. I continue to look at decorations and paint.
I think we missed fall! The weather has been in the 40's and we already had snow.
Brian has been off traveling the world, but it was a rocky start. He had a greyhound ticket for a 4 am shuttle to the Boston airport, so I brought him to the bus stop and we waited in the rain. We checked in online and continued to wait for an hour. We called the station closest to us on the route and found no one knew when the bus would meet us! We were getting closer to his flight to Costa Rica, so we drove to Boston. I was in my pajamas! It was quite a morning, dropping him off and still having most of the day. He did make his flight, but got a bad cold in Costa Rica. He safely traveled on to Mexico City and then to Texas.
I went to a speaker on the books Hospital Sketches, but Louisa May Alcott, and March, which follows the trials of the father from Little Women in the Civil War. It was a wonderful discussion and I am excited to read the first and maybe the latter book.
I had a busy week working, also. I have been giving flu vaccines as fast as our clinic receives doses. We have not had word about the H1N1 vaccine. I made some new friends through church and choir, and learned how to make beer with some other friends.