No longer LOST!

If you want to go winter camping, you need a good coat.   If you want to go XC skiing at night, you need a good coat.  If you want to forget you have a terrible voice and go Christmas caroling, you need a good coat.  If you want to NOT buy a wind breaker and a spring jacket, you can get a good North Face and have a good coat for all of the aforementioned activities, and for spring  and fall outdoor adventures too.

Today's news:  my "good coat" is no longer MIA. Tara - you rock my  world.

Hehehehe, as excited  as I am to have it back, I  can't feel bad at ALL about not being able to use it until next year!  Yesterday's 25 mile bike ride keeps  me pumped  for our early spring.  In fact, my last few weeks I've been snowboarding, wake boarding, and biking. Not a bad life.

Toasting

Some people have boring grandparents. quiet grandparents. grandparents they never knew or who never wanted to know them.  I am lucky to have been gifted with talkative, animated, and OLD grandparents.  This  weekend I went to hang out for Easter and we decided to go out for dinner.   Below you will see our toast - to family, health, and ridiculousness.  Grandpa is 94, Grandma is 90, and they are both absolutely drinking beer.  This Easter I drank with my grandparents, and they loved it. Huh, that's something.

Mountain Bliss

My lips are dry, my nose is peeling - this is the small price for a bonding weekend between me, my snowboard, and the Rockies. As suspected, even spring boarding in mash potato snow out west beats the icy treachery of the midwest. Black diamonds. Hot tubs. Nature EvERyWhErE. Please remind me, why do I live in Wisconsin?