Big Hill Part #1

Well I went skiing a gain last night and I dont think that I ever really talked about the first time down the big hill, but it is much harder in the dark than it is during the day.

First time we went Luke went firstand he wiped out early going down the hill. There is one point when you get a little air because of a dip in the trail...well when you go down with a headlamp you totally lose the trail. Well I watched Luke fall over so I kind of knoew where to go.... I made it farther down than he did but then you hit this big curve and well that it where I lost it....


Needless to say my goal is to make it down the hill by the time the winter is over.

So last night....Luke makes me go first down the hill....lets say first is harder.... Made it down a ways but kept picking up speed and I knew that I was going to lose it sooner or later and didn't want to be going 100 miles an hour. So I ended up falling. I then get up and try ot keep going but Lukes dog rainy decided that wasnt going to happen and ran into me, which lead to a face plant in the snow. Then as I was getting up I decided to stay where there was a little more snow so it wouldn't be as slick.....well next thing I know my ski is caught on a little tree and before I can get it out, I realize that I am now in the bushes.

There is a reason this cross-country ski trail has a bypass around this hill, but I will not take it...I will make it down this hill even if it kills me

Where'd I go

I spent the last week at training for work. It was nothing to exciting. It was a class on how to become a better instructor...most of it was pretty boring for me since I took class after class on that when I was getting my teaching cert. the only difference here was that it was teaching adults. It is much harder to teach adults than it is kids...or maybe it was hard in this class because if I ever get a job back in MN quite a few people in that room could very well end up being my boss. So anyway I ended up putting in lots of work after class to make sure that my presentation were good

It just seems like I have been super busy since I got home. Since I went to this training last minute I haven't gotten much done that I need to get done... I haven't sent out my xmas cards, I still have shopping to do...Stuff of mine still isn't unpacked but good news is.....I finally have internet here at home now so that is an added bonus.

well here is a photo of my decorated xmas tree. I have added a few more onraments since this photo was taken so it looks a little fuller now

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

This mornings temp here in the Northland is -26..... that is what the local news channel says. Brrrrrrrrrrr. The good thing about when it is that cold that is that the sun is shinning and everything out my window looks so pretty.....however I will not be going anywhere, I am guessing my car probably wont start.

Looks like a day of watching movies for me.

My tree didn't get decorated because my nephew didn't end up coming over last night, so no pictures of that yet.

I found out that I have to work next week. I am going to a training class here in MN so that wont be so bad. It is only about 45 minutes away but I am staying in a hotel since there is some night work for this class and because the gov will pay for it.

here is a snow picture that I took last year

Thursday's Adventure

What did I do today?

Today I want over to my parents house and then went snowshoeing with my dad to find myself a tree. Every year we go back into the woods behind our house and find a tree. So today we went. I picked what looked like a scrawny little tree when we were out in the woods. I picked it because it was growing next to another one and one of them would eventually die.

I get it home and man it was bigger than I thought when we were outside. oh well . I think I am going to decorate it tommorow when my nephew is over. Lets hope that my dad remembers which one we decided for him to cut down for his house.

Tonight I am off to go skiing with my friend luke. we are going to some trails over by his house and we are going in the dark for a night ski. It is the first time x-skiing this year. I hope I dont die on this one hill on these trails. Laura we are going where you and I laughed so hard that one of us almost peed our pants and dad always goes down on his behind. Maybe Ill take some pictures... if I can find my camera that is

Snow, snow snow

Yes that has what I have been up to lately. Shoveling snow....and learning how to use my snowblower. I have lived in Northern MN my entire life but I have never used a snowblower until this winter. How is that you say, well my parents have a large driveway and they would have someone plow it and once my dad got a 4-wheeler he would plow it....or they made us shovel. So when I bought my house last year they left me the old snowblower.....the thing is huge and is from 1971...

I used it the other night and man if I didn't have muscles that thing would have caused problems. But it was great!!! It made things go twice as fast.

In other things I got my new bed yesterday. It is huge. I got a low profile boxspring and if I hadn't i don't know what I would have done. It seems way bigger by bigger I mean thicker and higher than when I was in the store.
The picture is a picture of the frame that I bought. With my new mattress you can barely see the wood. oh well it is ok and I like the way it looks in my room, and it sure was comfortable last night....since I dont have cable yet I think that i may just have to spend all day in bed.

well I better go shovel the snow from last night