A few missed posts...

We've been busy doing everything but posting to the blog.   Here's a short recap of a month's worth of weekends.  We just recently found the camera, so we only have a few pictures here and there.

Four weekends ago?
Kristen and I headed down to the Home & Garden show with the Nedrows.  We spent a good number of hours looking at an untold number of booths trying to sell concrete curbs, solar panels, and tile.  I eventually settled down to watch some poor guy try to sell cookware.  The sales guy asked the big guy in front of me what he thought of when he heard the word "Salad".  The big guy answered:  "Yuck!".

On Sunday, I put together Kristen's cold frame I'd promised her at Chistmas, or as I refer to it:  "Kristenmas".

Three weekends ago?
Kristen and I headed to Grand Junction to visit Katie and Jordan.  While the girls hung out and cooked, Jordan and I ventured out for a day of snowboarding.  It was Jordan's first, and I had forgotten how truly painful it is to learn to snowboard.  Jordan was a trooper, and didn't complain too much.  We went out for a big sushi dinner afterward.  Luckily, no trivia was played.  I have a lot of video of Jordan "eating it" on the snowboard, there's a highlight clip just waiting to be created.

Two weekends ago
Friday I headed to a LAN party to play computer games with a basement full of nerds.  It was fun as always.  I was definitely one of the leased skilled people there.  Back in my day, I would have shown those whippersnappers how to play Quake, but unfortunately those days are way behind me.
I took of the next morning to Winter Park with Eric Telingator.  We spent both Saturday and Sunday snowboarding.  I ended up with a broken board and a slight concussion, a first for me.  We still managed to have a lot of fun.  I made a great run with a group of "old guys", they showed me a few parts of the mountain I'd never seen before.

Kristen meanwhile headed to the "Alpaca Extravaganza" in Longmont with Christy Nedrow.  They looked at a lot of Alpaca, but thankfully didn't bring any home.

This weekend
Kristen and I headed into Longmont on Friday to hang out in a neighborhood we almost moved to.  It was fairly happening, and we had a good meal.

Saturday involved putting the finishing touches on the Cold Frame, and heading up to Nederland for the Frozen Dead Guy days.  It was a bigger event than ever before this year.  Unfortunately we didn't quite dress warm enough, and headed back to Boulder earlier than we'd like.

 Sunday involved shopping for a new snowboard, and a few hours of going into the office.

I'm hoping to play hooky on Tuesday, a giant storm is moving through the mountains tomorrow night.  Hopefully it'll make for one last great powder day.

Steamboat

Last weekend was the annual Steamboat trip.  We hit amazingly good snow this year, 20+ inches in a few days.  It's going to make the rest of the season seem pretty tame.

Goodbye Zack

You were a good cat, and we'll miss you.

Quick Update

Last weekend I headed up to snowboard on Saturday.  Jeff Nedrow and I got in a pretty good day at Winter Park, finding some good snow over on the Cirque.  It's been closed all year, the weather was beautiful, making the hike enjoyable.



Kristen and I relaxed on Sunday.  We did a little work around the house, including taking down the Christmas lights.

Things really cooled off Sunday night, we had several nights in the -10 range.  The highs only got into the single digits on Monday and Tuesday.  It looks like Cody and Rapid have had it worse.

I'm heading off to Steamboat tomorrow morning for the annual Super Bowl weekend ski trip.  It's the only multi-day trip planned this year, so hopefully the snow gods smile down upon us!

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.