The rest of the symposium was nice, they talked about solar energy, wind energy and geo-thermal. If you're building a house today the government will basically pay for you to put in geo-thermal which is awesome but you only get a percentage off if you're replacing an already existing setup. Solar is nice but we don't have a southern facing roof so does not really do us too much good.
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Thursday night me and Jessie went and enjoyed a lovely bottle of wine while we ate outside in the patio seating at Bella's! Yay, BYOB outside.. I had their linguine and clams and Jessie had a shrimp pasta dish. Both of them were excellent as usual. Their head chef Allen does a great job of combining flavors. I can't say often enough how good the food there is.. If you're ever in or around Putnam make sure you get to Bella's..
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Friday night me and Lynz went to Waterfront Mary's in Webster. We sat on the deck outside even though the smell of rain was in the air.. I really love the fact that you can drive your boat up to the restaurant, I know I can't do that but it's awesome. There were two ladies trying to leave via boat and the boat was having problems and one of the ladies was obviously drunk and yelling alot (in a funny/happy way). The girls next to us made a joking comment about beating her up if we paid them.. If you have not been to Waterfront Mary's they have a gazebo with a large table in it. As the rain got closer I recommended the 5 of us (me, Lynz and the three ladies at the next table) go steal the gazebo table. We went for it but someone had beat us there so we ended up trying to sit under the umbrella at the bar. While we were trying to figure out lighting over there the gazebo table opened up and we pounced.
We had an awesome time hanging out and after we all ate we moved inside to get away from the bugs that were eating me and Gladi alive. We stayed a lot later than we planned but it was a great night. What a week for meeting random awesome people.. :)
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Saturday me and Jessie cleaned a bit in the morning, went to Quaddick Pond in Thompson and relaxed at mid day and cleaned again in the late afternoon. The house was pretty much cleaned (except floors) before anyone got there. We had Hoyle, Joe, Rowan, Delia and Martin all meet at the house around 4:30.. We walked down to Thai Place and ate before heading over to the River Fire.
Ryan, Gwen and Tim met us over at the River Fire and we grabbed a great spot right on the water till we were yelled at for sitting on the rocks.. We ended up going to the other side of the river where we wouldn't be disturbed.. The River Fire itself was pretty lame and we ended up going back to the house for Apples to Apples till almost midnight.
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Sunday morning me and Jessie went out and did some shopping.. We got a new screened in gazebo for the back yard (where the picnic table is), a portable fire pit, a boche ball set and some other stuff for the house including the miracle hangers for my closet. Afterwards we ate lunch at Buster's and went home to setup the gazebo. Matt came over and helped us (I don't think two people could have put it together). We cleaned the house more and I actually feel ahead of schedule to get the house cleaned for the BBQ.
Speaking of BBQ. Matt, Sile and Daniel came over to eat the first meal in our new gazebo. I made pork chops with balsamic, soy sauce, garlic, and lemon pepper seasoning. I added some hot sauce to Matt and Jessie's but kept mine and Sile's unspicey. I also got a 5lb bag of Sabbrett hot dogs so we won't be needing those for the BBQ and we had some corn on the cob. Daniel actually ate most of a hot dog and half a corn on the cob! Matt and Sile brought over some sides and beer and made it a great first gazebo dinner.
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After everyone left Jessie got me to start watching Weeds. We watched a few episodes of season 1, it's a pretty good show and it certainly has potential.
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Today I have a guy coming to give us a price on putting a fence in our front yard and we are actually moving forward with getting estimates to replace our windows. I have a rough estimate from a place in Danielson and I am having Gladi's brother come from Webster to give us another quote.
Flickr has been updated with a few real nice pics, check 'em out..
---Diversion of the Day
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