Hi  to all my blog readers.

Thanks to the initiative taken up by my daughter, Jigsha, I am now all set to update my blog site quite often.

The greatest event that took place within the last year has been the arrival of our first grandson (NIKHIL AMIT DESAI) who was born in Atlanta on Oct 16th 2007. Vina was in Atlanta to witness the arrival of Nikhil but unfortunately I was stuck here in Rolla at the motel and had to see his pictures posted by my son on my computer. I did manage to fly down to Atlanta in November and see that great bundle of joy.

As noted earlier I have started to remodel some of the ground floor rooms by removing the old wood panelling and putting in new insulation and sheet rock. I hope that my guests will appreciate the new brighter rooms.

On November 15th we completed 5 years of owning and operating the Rustic Motel and we are forever indebted to Curtis and Lucie Smith who gave us the opportunity to take over this motel from them. In these past 5 years never have we delayed our monthly mortage payments and that is a record I hope to continue in the future too.

Today the snow and ice is slowly melting away and  I have to drop my daughter  off at St Louis for her flight to Knoxville. She is more adament that I continue blogging so I hope that I do not disappoint her.

ps The price is a gallon og regular Gas in Rolla today is $2.89.