Tim & Ryan are spending the week

Tim and Ryan Swick are here for the week, Ryan had some time off, and came to visit Tim. They keep the oddest hours, since they both do shift work of sorts their days are their nights, and nights are days. Since I get up early to head to the office I have heard them at 4 AM or so playing some sort of video guitar game, sounds unfamiliar in our house at that time of the morning or at any time for that matter. They did earn their dinner though, they dug 7 fresh holes for some Aspens I will be planting this week if the snow holds off. They will be here for Thanksgiving day dinner and then have to leave to return to work, Allegra especially enjoys having some action around here and with Tim there is always something going on. He continues to make us laugh as he has done since he started this life. David also called and it appears he will not be the unit sniper, he fired a 143 out of 200 which qualifies him, but doesn't quite meet the expert criteria. We both had a good laugh about his lack of prowness with the rifle, since he cannot close his left eye (who knows the reason for that?) he has to fire with both eyes open and left handed, a challenge for anyone. David will be home for Christmas prior to leaving for Iraq in early March, and we count that as a blessing.