Saturday, February 23, 2008
Wii Boxing!
We got ourselves a Wii yesterday. Its a whole lot of fun. This little video shows the girls boxing!
YARD WORK
Yes capitalized. Audra tried to break me today.
We moved the tulip tree from the front yard to the new front garden bed. Hopefully the beautiful blossoms will last a bit longer now that it has some protection from the April wind and rain.
Then Audra got crazy and decided that we needed to pull out all the burning bushes along the south side of the house. Good times. She called our friends the Flynts and asked if they would take them - "sure!" so out they came.
Lastly we - uhm, I - dug out all the grass along the south side of the patio and proceeded to dig two holes. Like everywhere else, the yard would not give up the holes without a fight. I'm convinced my back yard used to be a crickbed. So it was a few scrapes across the top and then to the pick ax. Man do I love that pick ax. A few hearty swings into the ground, a few hundred stones broken loose and before you know it. Your back is smoked and you want to sit down. OR you haul out the two lilacs that are too close together (and twice the size of you) and put them into those well earned holes.
The weather was perfect for hard yard work. 55 and sunny. All in all a good start to the yard here in February. For some reason I think I should be doing something other than yard work in February -
We moved the tulip tree from the front yard to the new front garden bed. Hopefully the beautiful blossoms will last a bit longer now that it has some protection from the April wind and rain.
Then Audra got crazy and decided that we needed to pull out all the burning bushes along the south side of the house. Good times. She called our friends the Flynts and asked if they would take them - "sure!" so out they came.
Lastly we - uhm, I - dug out all the grass along the south side of the patio and proceeded to dig two holes. Like everywhere else, the yard would not give up the holes without a fight. I'm convinced my back yard used to be a crickbed. So it was a few scrapes across the top and then to the pick ax. Man do I love that pick ax. A few hearty swings into the ground, a few hundred stones broken loose and before you know it. Your back is smoked and you want to sit down. OR you haul out the two lilacs that are too close together (and twice the size of you) and put them into those well earned holes.
The weather was perfect for hard yard work. 55 and sunny. All in all a good start to the yard here in February. For some reason I think I should be doing something other than yard work in February -
Monday, February 18, 2008
End of the day
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Sunday, February 17, 2008
Skiing at Crystal
Last Thursday we had our neighbors, the Questads, over for dinner and an obscene amount of Chocolate fondue. For those keeping track, last Thursday was both Valentines Day and the day my goals gave way to my desires. My goal was to loose two pounds last week and I was doing pretty well until the chocolate fondue. Now, you may scoff and say only a fool blames the fondue and not himself (actually, I think Confucius said that) but none of you reading this (unless you are Mat or Courtney) saw the fondue. Bubbling chocolaty goodness - or seething cauldron of diet busting isoflavonoids? You be the judge!
(best if loosely sung to the tune My favorite things)
We had pound cake and pretzels and crunchy graham crackers
bananas and oranges and tasty strawberries
fluffy white coconut homemade macaroons
all dunked in lovely chocolate cocoons
But the best part
yes the best part
early that day Audra made caramels
to give to the teachers and grumpy bus drivers (she's not grumpy but I needed the syllable)
And then we all dunked them in CHOCOLATE FONDUE
Yeah, I know that last part doesn't match or rhyme or really anything, but once you dip homemade caramel into chocolate fondue you really lose a lot of your self control and do crazy stuff like that.
Which brings me to my title. I went skiing at Crystal today with my good friend(and aforementioned neighbor) Mat. Drunk on fondue Mat asked if I would like to go up skiing at Crystal this weekend and as luck would have it - (luck being Audra) I could. So Mat and I packed up our gear and left the house this morning for a day in the sun on the slopes. It was a great day, the sun was out and Mt. Rainier was so close you felt like you could reach out and touch it. From the various ridges we could see Mt. St. Helens, Mt. Adams and even the white peak of Mt. Baker and Baker is like 3000 miles away! Great day.
I'll start my back on my diet again tomorrow.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Ski Trip
I took the girls up skiing a few weeks back. We had a perfect day. Rare weather for the cascades, dry, cold and clear as a bell. I enrolled the girls in their day classes and headed up to do some skiing myself. Their classes run from 9:30 to 3:00 and includes lunch. Checking in on them from time to time I noted their morning teachers were not as good as their afternoon - and that both the girls were having a great time. At the end of the day Olivia got to ride the chairlift all by herself. (Audra was not keen on this when I told her) Needless to say, both girls have the bug and are excited for our trip tomorrow. I'm hoping the weather holds out and we have another beautiful day in the mountains.
You'll notice that some of the pictures have a small icon in the lower left hand corner - these are short video clips of the girls skiing. If you click on the pic it will pop open another window and you should be able to view the clip.
You'll notice that some of the pictures have a small icon in the lower left hand corner - these are short video clips of the girls skiing. If you click on the pic it will pop open another window and you should be able to view the clip.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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