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February 26, 2008
Meanwhile...
I have been keeping busy while Carrie is away, slaving away cleaning the house, shoveling the mounds of snow... ok so that's not entirely true. Ok so it's not true at all. But I have been keeping busy.
First I finished the broom closet... ok so it still needs a little touch-up painting, but other than that it is done.
Last tuesday night I left for Da UP for a while. First was 3 days of seminars, not nearly so bad as it sounds, most of them were interesting, at least to me.
After the conference, and all the joys of staying at the casino (one of the most depressing places I can think of, but that is a different rant for a different post) I headed over to South Range to see our friends Matt and Vicky.
Matt and I went down to the Mine site to get some things, they had a little bit of snow about 3 feet on the roof of the mobile home.
This fall I heard that the ski resort at the porcupine mountains had added back-country style skiing, accessed by Snow Cat. I have wanted to ride in a Snow Cat for a long time, and while I did get a short ride in one on our honeymoon, it wasn't really a good thing (seeing as it was being used for and ambulance, because Carrie was hurt. As a side note, any of you out there getting married a small piece of advice, don't try new sports on your honeymoon). In any case, they have Snow Cat skiing, I want to go Snow Cat skiing, it was a perfect match.
Fortunately it was my friend Matt that I can blame for my taste in skiing, un-groomed runs through glades, and he also has wanted to ride in a Snow Cat, so it didn't take much convincing to get him to go with me.
The snow conditions were perfect, the mountain was uncrowded, the sky was crystal clear, and the views were amazing. The pictures do not do it justice.
On Sunday we went tromping around the woods behind the house in snowshoes, clearing branches to make a path so that vicky could go XC Skiing back there.
In all it was a great weekend, but I did really miss sharing it.
The drive home was not too bad, I managed to get an e-audio book from the library downloaded to my phone to listen to on the drive home. A 10 hour drive alone is much better when your mind is being occupied, in fact I was a little disappointed that my drive was done before my book.
This week I am afraid it is just work, and cleaning the house so that It will be clean when Carrie gets home... but I may find time to sneak out and kill a wabbit...
your host for this episode : dan; February 26, 2008 05:59 PM