New York, New York

Our moving date has been set for June 24th, which is the actual date we will be leaving the state of Virginia for the state of New York, one small U-Haul trailer, two dogs, two cats, and ourselves in tow. Hopefully, all fingers and toes crossed, our household goods will follow us to our new home not long thereafter and we'll get all settled in for the next three years.

I expect to be without Internet access for awhile. Down here, our access gets turned off on June 23rd, which is when we will turn in the equipment. Up there, it will get turned on ... eventually. Since we don't have the option of cable up there, Verizon High Speed Internet will probably be our one and only choice, which means we can set up our Internet as soon as they ship us the modem.

I will be able to get online on base, and I've been told there are a number of free wi-fi places in the area as well, so I'm assuming I won't be completely internet-less. That's something. Whether I can survive with Verizon's idea of "high speed" Internet versus my idea of high speed Internet is another question altogether. We've been spoiled, having cable for so long.

Anyway.

When Trueman traveled up to Fort Drum last week, he took the small camera and got a couple of nice pictures of the property, so you can all see a small glimpse of the things to come. Unfortunately, he neglected to get a photo of the actual house because "you've already seen what it looks like on the disk they mailed us", so I won't get to show you the actual house until we get up there and I can take one... (See what happens when you ask a man to get photos of the house so you can show them on your blog?!)

Main Street

Life Savers on the village green

Why is that there, you ask? Well, according to the town history, the giant roll of Life Savers was erected in honor of Edward John Noble.

E. J. Noble, who was born in the town of Gouverneur, purchased the Life Savers company in 1913, when it was failing miserably because the flavors of the candy could not be preserved in the cardboard packaging it was sold in. Candy that doesn't taste well tends not to sell well, either. E. J. Noble invented an "easy-to-open foil wrapper", which preserved flavor, thus saving the company.

Besides the monument erected in his honor, the town of Gouverneur also named the local hospital after him.

The view from (of? with?) the porch.

The view behind the house, aka "I am so not mowing that!"

The Landlord's horses, catty corner from the house.

Our new Landlord owns two horses, a buckskin gelding (the one in front) and a paint mare (the one in back). Since I'm using code names for everyone I am talking about in my blog, let's give the horsies some code names as well. The buckskin is called Ty and the paint Snickers, for the purposes of my blogging.