Spent the day opening up the house; turning the water on, moving furniture out onto the porch, setting up the trampoline. Also spent some time fixing the ruts at the top of our driveway. While i was doing that i came across a man walking along the grade and we stopped and chatted for about twenty minutes.

That evening, a rainstorm with really high winds ripped through and knocked the power out. I sat and read a book for a while by flashlight, then went to bed.

Awoke to still no power and found that there was a tree down across the driveway just above the barn. It was too big to drag out of the way. I closed up the house and headed back to Vewrmont but had to make a detour around the end of the grade where two more big trees were down.

I took a drive in the Mini today up to a quarry north of West Rutland, but there was no access to it so i couldn't get a photo of the Mini next to it, meaning no Moss Motoring Challenge points. I stopped by and visited Nikki and her new baby Ryder on my way back.

Drove down to UMAss Amherst for D1 College Regionals. The plan was to observe the women's final, the men's final, then the women's game-to-go, but the women's final got shifted to be at the same time as the men's final, so we missed that one. I was disappointed because i wanted to watch Dartmouth play. Skippy and i observed the women's semifinal between Tufts and Vermont, which was cool because i knew a bunch of the UVM players. Tufts won that game 15-9, but then they got dismantled by Dartmouth in the final 15-3. Vermont, meanwhile played two games to universe point, beating Umass and Harvard both 11-10. Skippy and i observed the men's final, which was uneventful with the #1 seed UMass beating Brown 15-9, then the women's game-to-go, which was a rematch of Vermont vs. Tufts. Vermont was much more tired and lost 15-8. Amazingly, it rained on the entire drive down there AND the drive back, but not a drop on the fields all day.

Drove down to Bennington for the first Hemmings Drive-in of the season. It was pretty cool, with a lot of American muscle cars and a couple more British sports cars there. Unfortunately, it took longer than i thought to get there, so, arriving late, i got parked in the back of the parking lot where you just get lined up in a row. That meant that i couldn't leave until the whole thing was over and everybody ahead of me pulled out. Oh well, it was still a nice excursion.

Farm.

Started reorganizing my Legos.

Drove up to Rutland and picked up a couple more Moss Motoring Challenge points, then continued up to Chittenden Reservoir and got a couple more.

Also found out today that i have a mold infection, but i have to get rid of the source (probably my house) before starting treatment.

Finished organizing my Legos.

Drove up to the Top Of The World hill and took some pics of the Mini in the sunset.

First day of Okemo challenge course training. Lots of playing around on the challenge course doing rescues.

Second day of challenge course training. Actually managed to haul myself up a 20-foot rope. Went over to the farm after training.

Took a roundabout route up to Home Depot and back.

Went for another drive to pick up a few more Moss Motoring Challenge points.

Third day of challenge course training. Did some more rescues and retrievals, then broke early as it started to rain harder.

Farm.

Adventure Zone training. Learned how to run the bungee trampoline, the air bag, the climbing wall, and the mountain coaster. Overcame my fear and jumped onto the air bag.

Had a department orientation meeting in the morning then went over to the Clock Tower base and practiced lift evacuations off of the A Quad. Went over to the farm in the rain after that.

First day of work at Okemo. I was in the Challenge Course all day, sending people out on the course. Pretty easy work.

Not scheduled to work. Didn't really feel like doing anything, but finally decided to take advantage of the only nice day for the next few and took a drive to scrounge up some more Moss Motoring Challenge points.

First day of zipline training. Basically spent the day slowly going through the hle course twice.

Disc golf league. Don't remember how i shot, but it wasn't well.