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T h e R o z e l l F a m i l y
Holiday Newsletter from the Love Shack
Hard to believe, but this is the 10th time I have attempted to write this holiday newsletter. It’s a lot
harder than it looks, especially with children getting older and assuming they now have editorial powers. But people seem to enjoy it, so we will give it another whirl. So I begin this year’s edition at 02:30 hrs the Sunday
before Christmas. Not a creature is stirring,
except for the family of mice that moved in due to the holes in the house because we are still working on the addition on the Shack. The children are sleep-ing (still in the same bedroom, BTW) with visions of I-Phones, I-Pods, I-Touchs dancing in their heads. Won’t they be excited to wake up instead to the beautiful 6 panel wood door Dad will install for them on their bedroom on Christmas day. Maybe a new
toboggan too! Momma has settled in for a long winter’s nap... and if I turn on a light or step
on the cat, she just may snap!
Oh, the weather outside is frightful, ... The wind outside roars and spins the TV antenna around like a propeller to ensure only one channel.
The fire so delightful… the kitchen is about 6
degrees, but that’s ok, I‘ll throw on my flannel shirt, still reeking of chainsaw exhaust, to remind me of my love of firewood processing. And all the Face-book friends down south are posting pictures and reveling in East Coast storm that snowed them in today. I’m really sad that I missed out on six to eight hours of snowplowing here at the Compound and up at camp, but I am really happy for them…
I began this newsletter in 2000,
mainly as a way to keep family and friends updated on our progress following the loss of my Dad and the start of care giving for my Mom. We had begun building our “structures” on our 64 acres that year, and our youngest child was also
born then. Ten years later, we are still carving out our niche in the wilderness, and the children are old enough to
help out when they feel like it. Ten years later, my eyes and Momma’s ears are beginning to age prematurely, so we figure that in a few more years when the youngest is in high school, she will have it made. On the next few pages we will bring you some ten year highlights and more musings on the travails and delights of creating one’s own wilderness empire and attempting to raise three decent beautiful human beings. Hope you had a great holiday.
VOLUME 10 HOLIDAY 2009
10th Anniversary Edition!
Page 2 Volume 10 Holiday 2009
What we did this year...
Emma began high school this year and is about ten locers down from dad’s classroom door. She comes
in somedays for lunch with him or just to steal form his stash of snacks or bottled water. She is doing really well with er horses and skating and such and is excelling in track relay.
Mary learned how to play poker this year and will take your money, sucker.
2002
2004
Emma began high school this year and is about ten
lockers down from Dad’s classroom door. She
comes in some days for lunch with him or just to
steal from his stash of snacks or bottled water or to
ask for money. She is doing really well with her horses. She is still figure skating and is excelling in
track and field.
Mary learned how to play poker this year and will take your
money, sucker. She has taken up the violin and enjoys the A-Team
on Retro TV and does a good Mr. T impersonation. She got into
Michael Jackson this year a little too late, but sings “I’m Bad”
pretty well. Ain’t it the truth! In the winter she enjoys sledding out back so much that she gets to laughing so hard she “has accidents”
in multi layers of snow pants. At least she can change herself now.
Highlights over the Years...
Page 3 Holiday Newsletter from the Love Shack
(Yes, some would consider this lame,
but it is the tenth anniversary, after all…)
Cousin Kelly wants in
Good Looking Man on ABC World News To-
night.. Person of the Week, 9-25-09...Diane
Sawyer herself did a three minutes segment.
(Katie Couric had her chance and now she's cry-
ing in the corner…) We had an international Holocaust Survivors/Liberators gathering at our
school. Also recognized by the Governor, state
legislators, and by the NYS DAR as their
Teacher of the Year. Invited to Wash. DC in the
spring, 3 films to be released on all this...Still
trying to figure it all out...
2008 2006
What could be more fun than spend-
ing 10 glorious days with our cousins
in Cape Cod. Dad rescued one of the
twins when he got his head stuck in
the banister railing.
Shaggy started sixth grade
and got a BB gun this year.
Uncle Ted taught Ned how
to shoot soda cans. Santa is
bringing some nice new black eye patches.
THE ROZ ELL FA MIL Y HOLIDAY N EW SL ETTER
2009 5630 COUNTY RO UTE 30
GRANVILL E, N EW YOR K 12832
Phone: 518-632-5063 Email:
Matt- [email protected] [email protected]
teachinghistorymatters.wordpress.com adkbuildingalone.blogspot.com
Swingin’ in the barn.
More Highlights
Have a happy, safe, and blessed holiday
season and a peaceful New Year!
~Matthew and Laura, Emma, Ned, and
Mary~
~Kitty, Molly, Lilly, Mozey, Rainman
Matt and friend Ted went to see Derek Jeter break Gehrig’s record, 9-11-09, at Yankee Stadium (we got to see it on the Jumbo Tron as somebody had to get his 3rd inning nachos.)
Pond Life...
Birthday # 9, 3-17.
Ned buried in Cape Cod and at USS Yorktown in Charleston.
The annual “first day of school
in front of unfinished house”
picture. If you want to see the
“progress,” go to the link above.
Sisters
Ned in corn maze 10-17.