Lots of Driving

I had a whirlwind tour of Wyoming and Montana this last weekend.  On Friday I headed to Cody, arriving around 11 pm.  Lena slept through my arrival, not a single bark emanated from the storied watch dog.

I visited w/ Ma & Pa for a few hours in the morning.  I did a little tech support, toured both shops, then jumped in the car to head to Red Lodge Montana.  I unfortunately picked a bad day to snowboard, all the locals were saying it was the worst day in recent memory.  The snow was poor, and the wind was really blowing.  I did manage to ride the lift up once with Dan White's daughter.  Dan White was my biology teacher in high school.

Due to the wind, I only lasted about 3 hours, then headed off to Billings for Joe Stringari's birthday party.  That was a lot of fun.  I got to hang out with Joe, Jack Ford, and Juli Hinze for most of the evening. I hadn't seen Jack for 15 years, and have only seen Joe and Juli a few times since college, mostly at high school reunions.  We really had a lot of fun, it could have been 1993 for all I knew.

The next morning I headed back to Colorado, stopping in Casper to visit with Brent and Trudy.  They were doing well, we had a good hour visit before I headed back to Boulder.

Kristen had stayed behind, planning the glorious gardens of the spring.  Many of the seeds she had ordered showed up in the mail, which only fed the fever.  I think we're going to be plenty busy come May.

She also visited with her father, and brother and sister in law.  The big news there is that Clay and Shana are expecting a baby.   Kristen also whipped up a loaf of applesauce bread, and a loaf of banana bread.

Unfortunately Kristen and I didn't take any pictures, so you'll have to use your imagination.

An on time posting

Here's a picture from our first big snow of the year a couple of weeks ago.  Zack really wanted to go outside, but quickly changed his mind once he was out there.

We had a good weekend.  The weather has warmed up into the 50s, quite a change from the colder temperatures of last week.  I headed up to Copper Mountain on Saturday with a few friends.  The snow wasn't great, but it wasn't bad either. 

After a day of snowboarding, we headed to their jump training center to practice our mad-skills in their foam pits.  We quickly discovered we really weren't that good at jumping, much more practice would be necessary.

On Sunday Kristen headed out with a friend to the National Western Stock Show.  She spotted some chickens she liked the looks of.  Luckily she didn't bring any home.

I finally got a hair cut.  I went in on Friday and asked for a "Mullet", thinking it would be hilarious.  It was so atrocious that I had to hide it via a hat until Sunday.  Now I'm back to normal hair, and am looking forward to it for a good long while.

3 weeks gone

Three weeks have passed, and there's not a lot to report. I'm finally over the cold that Jacoby left as a last Christmas present. Kristen never really got it, it sounds like she's the only lucky one.

Shortly after the holidays it snowed like crazy in town. We missed a very white Christmas by a week or so. The weather has cooled considerably as well, we've had several nights with temperatures in the negatives.

Now that my cold has passed, there's a lot of snowboarding planned. I managed to make it up on Sunday and had a great day. This upcoming weekend will be more of the same.