Katie & Dad XC Ski
Michael,
The day before yesterday we finally got some snow around here. About a foot of lovely powder fell on Boulder county early Sunday morning. So Katie and I decided to take advantage of it before it disappeared in a chinook or one of those dratted warm spells. The County’s Open Space has a nice preserve 5 miles west of town at about 8000′. It has 3 or 4 miles of walking/jogging/skiing trails, and that’s where we headed. A few other snow lovers were out hiking, snowshoeing and XC skiing there, but the trails were remarkably untracked. One of the benches near the trailhead had a foot of fresh powder on it, so I tried pressing my hand into it, and got the snow to compress about 8 inches. As usual, the fresh powder was impossible to make snowballs out of (it’s only fault!)
I enclose 2 pictures of us on our skis.
   
–rakkity
Shouldn’t KT be shingling a roof somewhere?
Comment by michael — December 11, 2007 @ 7:27 pm
KT’s all done with shingling, trail building, and hurricane window protecting. Right now she’s working as a replacement nanny in Longmont. This lasts till next week, when she’ll be unemployed again.
Comment by rakkity — December 12, 2007 @ 9:15 pm
The problem with being unemployed is you never enjoy it as much as should. Think of your lifetime as a highway and work as the endless double yellow line stretching off into the distance. Savor it when you’re forced off that road.
Comment by michael — December 13, 2007 @ 8:45 am
No savoring for KT. She’s got job applications going left and right, the latest being to something called “Apple One”. (No relation to Steve Jobs’ business). They were impressed by her application, particularly to the Americorps bit, and next to being trilingual.
Comment by rakkity — December 13, 2007 @ 6:33 pm