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This has been a crazy fall.  Good…mostly…but definitely crazy.  One kid had a broken wrist, with ligament damage, and a pulled hamstring. Another was attacked by a classmate…And as we get ready to go on vacation, the third kid is on crutches.  (she is also the one who was in the emergency room over Thanksgiving [...]

Monday is the official start of our family vacation!  We are driving to Florida to spend a week with my aunt & uncle.  So in order to get ready to go, I’ve been trying to get a lot of last minute things done…so here are some quick updates, and various random thoughts as I get [...]

So I’m driving home for lunch & get about 3 blocks from my house, when a guy in a truck decides to turn left in front of me.  He did it very last minute & I didn’t have enough time to stop and I hit his truck. As you can see from the picture, while [...]

For the past 6 years a nameless phone book company (ver*cough*izon*cough*) has listed the Vineyard Church of Ithaca in their directory under churches.  This year they did not.  And I am very happy about that! In the first place, come on, who actually uses the Yellow Pages to look for a church?  Google, sure…a ton [...]

The final plans for the new building were handed in today…and the asbestos abatement plan should be ready any day!  Hopefully the project will be moving forward soon!

This is hockey weekend for the Wilsons. The annual Ithaca shooting stars tourament is being held at both the Rink and Cass Park. With Hannah out with injuries and Erin no longer playing, Brenna is the only one on the ice. Liz has been involved with scheduling volunteers, decorations and such and we both get [...]

I changed my facebook status.  It had not been updated in 8 days.  I am actually feeling a bit like a crotchety old man about the whole thing. No, I don’t want to play scrabble or texas hold ‘em or whatever other games there are…and it has nothing to do with the fact that I’m [...]

For the past 10 years the Ithaca Vineyard has headed up the the mall and wrapped people’s Christmas gifts for free!  This year, due to some changes at the mall, we’ll be heading down to K-Mart for 3 days! We will be wrapping gifts this year at the following times: Thursday, December 18 from 6:00 [...]

So as of last night, we have the final plans for the HVAC system for the new building!  They will get plugged into our plans this week, stamped by the architect and submitted to the building department on Monday.  If all that goes well, we should have the building permit by the end of the [...]