Work and Snowboarding, House Hunting

I randomly heard Bonnie Raitt singing "Angel From Montgomery" in the grocery store the other night.  That brought back some memories.


Two weekends ago, Kristen and I managed to make it down to the National Western Stock Show.  Bruce and Teri had 10 mules there, entered in a myriad of contests.  We watched them place 2nd in the Costume contest.

I went snowboarding the next day with five other guys.  The snow wasn't great, but we managed to find some good stuff.  The new helmet cam is working out great.  Here's a corny video I put together from that day.




Last week was pretty hectic at week.  We still have no shortage of work, and we're looking for bigger offices and more employees.  A few late nights here and there, but it's livable.  I managed to sneak away on Thursday for another day of snowboarding.  The snow was better, but it's still well below normal.

This Saturday was another day of snowboarding, this time at Copper Mountain.  The snow there was pretty poor, but we still enjoyed ourselves.

Kristen and I looked at a few houses on Sunday.  One was pretty beat up, was in a great location, but they were asking too much for it.  The other was pretty far up in the mountains, had bad access, but was pretty cool otherwise.  The search continues.  We did get pre-approved for a loan, so we can check that off the list.

We've been cleaning and packing up stuff around the condo.  The upstairs neighbors continue to have square dance parties from 2 am through 4 am, so that's a little extra motivation.  I'm almost done touching up all the cabinets, a few more nights of that and I'll be done.

This is going to be a short week, I leave on Thursday for a four day weekend at Steamboat.  They too desperately need snow, I'm hoping a big storm randomly swings in Wednesday night.

Not much to report...

It's been pretty slow around here for the last few weekends.  Two weekends ago we spent some time at Kristen's mom's place.  Joni cooked a huge amount of food.  I weighed myself before and after eating, I gained four pounds while I was there.  I was pretty full.

We also started reorganizing the condo, with the hopes of putting it on the market.  We have a lot of work to get through, so it'll be a slow process.  One of the bigger projects is to sand and re-stain all the window ledges.  A combination of cat scratches and water have forced that project to happen.

It's been warmer around here, not much snow in the mountains, so no snowboarding to report.  I did spend a bunch of time updating the tree house blog, so check that out if you haven't already.

This last weekend wasn't much more active.  More house work, a few trips to the Home Depot.  Kristen and I did end up at the new happening burger joint in town, Larkburger.  Good stuff.  Really good.  If the brother-in-law ever shows his face in these parts, we'll have to drop by.  I'd be curious about his professional burger opinion.

Pictures from the Christmas Trip

Here are some of the more memorable pictures from the Indiana trip.


Testing

Happy New Year!

Kristen and I celebrated a quiet new years by cooking a large meal, and laying pretty low. Kristen cooked up an amazing vegetarian feast using recipes out of her new cook books. We had potato enchiladas, a variation of Spanish rice using millet, and some very tasty spicy black beans. We actually managed to stay up past midnight for the first time in recent memory.

Earlier in the day I went snowboarding with Matt, Mike, Sharron. We met up with Mikael Anderson, a guy I went to high school with. Mikael and I had chatted a bit at the 20 year reunion, and realized we were both big snow-sport guys. It was a lot of fun telling Cody stories on the chair lift. He caught me off guard with a few memories that I'd completely forgotten about from way back when. Lot's of fun.



The snow was great, 11" of new powder. The new helmet cam worked out great, I have a lot of footage to sift through.