Happy Holidays!

Hope this finds most getting ready for the holidays. We are enjoying the snow of Mackinaw City as we gained about six or seven inches of the white stuff over the weekend. I figure this is good practice for Moldova, that is suppose to have a "temperate " climate like Minnesota? But is good testing for clothes.

I have started packing as we will be heading south first to Chicago and then on to southeastern Michigan until after the holiday's.

I have down loaded a Moldovan language program that was on my Peace Corps tool kit, on line. It seems that Moldovan is similar to Romanian but has many distinctions of its own.

While south, I have to dig out summer clothing to pack and most likely will have to cut down on the winter stuff I have. It is hard since we are suffering winter here I want to pack too much. But stay tuned for the packing saga.

We have been supporting the Mackinaw Historical Society's effort to get a handle on the artifacts they have. First job seems to be deciding what is actually of the period of the village where most of these artifacts will eventually be displayed. We spend the morning organizing the heated part of the artifact building so there was space for the new material. We had to park across the road when we first got there and walk into the village as the snow was a good foot deep. But while we were there the road crew folks plowed out the road to the village. It is nice to have snow that stays and does not turn into slush. That means good cold weather.