Two days of stuff to catch up on here.. The first big news is Satori’s haircut.. Her dreads were getting so bad that Diane had to take her in to get them combed out.. It was a lost case.. and the groomer said we needed to cut her short then keep it untangled as her hair grew back.. So here’s a before….
And here’s an after.. She looks about half the size.. but she’s still hairy enough to run around outside in sub-zero weather.. We keep having to reassure her that she’s still cute…
Last night was a quiet night just with the three of us.. We celebrated by melting a bunch of our xmas chocolate into fondue… Yum !…
This morning we spent getting ready for the rail jam this afternoon.Ralph K had set the whole thing up which was so great of him !He needed soem pinnies.. so we tore a bed sheet into 40 squares and numbered them .. then we gathered a bunch of Sam related stuff… . and I took Diane and Gabe up there to begin registering pople/ Meanwhile.. I went back and played joe handyman.. My job today was to repair a gfi outlet and replace the old light/fan in our bathrom with one that had a heater.. Like every project, theis took much longer than expected.. I took the old one down and realized that the guys who placed it here had to saw into a beam to get it in.. I had to do the same.. Ugh.. But…
It was an interesting archeological expidention seeing parts of the house long since covered.. here you can see to original lathe and plaster from the ceiling.. as well as some old sheetrock over that.. and the poisoness.. (figurativly and literally) old lead green paint that yused to cover the inside of the building. And moutnains of blown in celluolose inssulation thats now in evey part of my body.
Like in everything I do here now, I finished it off with a samstone…
Actually I finished it off with a vacuum cleaner… what a $^% mess
I got up to the mountian at about 3:30 just as thec ompetition was about to start.. I found Diane, Tim and Jen and we hiked up to teh jungle park.. Even though it was a balmy 9 degrees, the wind was whipping like crazy.. it had to be be well below zero with the windchill..
The omeptition was good !. there were 36 riders and skiers competing which is a great crowd..!.. Here’s Gabe on the Sam rail… It’s great that everyone calls it the Sam rail…
It was beutifulup there as the sun started to set.. beiutiful and cold !.. As soon as the sun dipped, the temeperature did too..
Zach and the BV crew kept the music pumping to the very end.. I could tell they were all frozen… !
One bad thing that happened was Jack B hit the flat box with his shin and was really hurting.. Ski patorl took him down in a sled.. then Lincoln took him to the hospital.. The good-ish news is that it’s only a really bad bruis.e. Hes hoem and on crutches.. and will be back on his board in a week or so.. Good luck Jack !
Around 5:30 we all gathered in the small lunge outside of Zach’s office for results and prizes..
I can’t remember who won what.. but I remember that Marie K won soemthing ,so did Ellis and Ryan H. Luke also won something.. There was some good booty and cash prizes fo rthe winners. The most fun part was when Marie donated the case of red bull she won to the crowd.. What a feeding frenzy.. I had to jump out of the way !
I was helping clean up when I came across this small Sam Shirne above Zach’s desk. I know Sam would have loved htis.. and somehow I feel he still does..
OK.. so that was the day.. TOmorrow is the last day of vacation,,, I’ll give soem thoughts on that tomorrow. For now.. ‘nite all. Nite Sam
-me
-me
