Winter was strange in Vermont- we had a TON of rain, which made mud season an adventure, but at least I wasn't freezing!
We have had friends up and have also gone to visit friends in Pennsylvania, Boston, and Maine which is a fun break from the day-to-day norm.
I am almost done with orienting to all the units at CVMC and will officially be able to float to the intensive care unit, inpatient psychiatry, medical-surgical, women and children's, and the emergency department by the end of July. I am looking forward to it! I do still work night shifts, but that pay differential is helping save for a house one day!
Hope all is well wherever you are, I will be trying to visit Colorado sometime this summer.
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| Colby's trial ride in New Jersey |
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| Paul and Jenelle visited us in the fall and Jenelle came back again later in the winter to ski and meet cows (which I think there are more cows than there are people in Vermont) |
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| 4-wheeling buddies, we were asked 3 times if we were sisters |
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| Winter road in Vermont (this picture is deceiving because it hardly snowed). |
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| Carly and Kaela will be Physical Therapists before you know it, I visited them in Portland, Maine. |
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| Brutus, the snow-shoe-walk entertainment dog |
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| One of these things is not like the others, one of Dan's oxen that they use to pull wagons hanging out with the dairy cows. |
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| Icy First Connecticut Lake in Pittsburg, NH |
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| When there is no real snow, you take out a snowmobile from the 1970s and play on the lake. |
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| Skiing Sugarbush |
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| I finally made it on a Ben and Jerry's tour with Marissa and her niece and nephew |
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| Sap buckets- I learned to participate in Maple syrup production from start to finish, it was a blast! |
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| That is a lot of sap |
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| Fresh maple syrup |
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| The different grades of syrup, our batch is the far right, pretty dark and robust! |
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| Boiling the sap with Marissa |
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| Colby and his friend Buck |
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| We brought Paul and Jenelle out to Colorado to find the snow that never made it East! |
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| It was gorgeous up at On the Trail Rentals |
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| Strawberry Park Hot Springs up in Steamboat |
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| Hot springs in the snow |
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| Delicious apple cider mill with Kaela and Carly |
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| Baby sheep! She was my favorite little one! |
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| Our friends Rob and Jess's sweet baby Lia |
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| New oxen in training, Hank and Willie! |
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| Some of the creations of Bohemian Bakery |
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| Colby and Minnie |
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| Vermonter girls up at Parker Pie- Elissa, Tara, Erin, and Jeri |
