Three Days a Vermontian....Are we there yet?

Three days a Vermontian.....what a feat! LOL it is really cold....the funny thing is that it is not!!! According to our die hard Vermonter friends "You ain't seen nothing yet"! It has been in the mid twenties at night which to a born and raised Californian is ..... REALLY COLD! So far we have done the requisite Target shopping for bare essentials (e.g., Coffee, toilet paper, paper towels...you guessed it). The people here have been great, real 'salt of the earth', what you see is what you get no nonsense with a dash of 'how can I help you' thrown in for good measure and it has been very refreshing! We hired a cleaning service and they have been so warm and kind (Jamie and Betsy we LOVE YOU). Very helpful navigating through 'small town life' where everyone knows everyone, or is related! I don't know what we would do without them! Yesterday was one necessity of modern life after another lined up at the front door....the Roofer, the couple working on our floors, the cleaners, the wood burning stove guy, etc. Very exhausting and soon to be very expensive day! It was all worth it! It's our house! Yeah!!! We did it. That little corner of land we can call ours and to quote the New Hampshire license plates I see all the time (we are right on the border with NH) "Live Free or Die"! What a truly American sentiment, one you recall from history lessons but one lost when you grow up in CA where your history is very different than that of New England. We have had some challenges, like the Dish people not setting up the TV and internet the way they were supposed to, we ended up having to go back to Comcast....UUUGH. Oh well, at least they will be here in a couple of days and get us set up. Right now we have to run our internet connections through Verizon...who I was on h phone with at 2 AM explaining to them how I did not cancel our unlimited data plan like they seem to think I did and are convinced but can't 'back it up'. LOL the question from them was "Why would we cancel it without your consent"....my response "So you can get rid of the 'grandfathered unlimited data users' and not have to offer such a good deal and overwhelm your system....the response being silence. We have the builders coming today with what I am sure are going to be a lot of additional surprises!!!