The last day at the Beav'

Beaver Mountain, the local ski area, closed about a month ago. It wasn't for lack of snow. Today, Callie and I headed up for what might turn out to be the last ski of the year. We had to dodge a few snowmobiles on the way up, but still had a great time.
Callie also sought some part-time work as a liftie.

Blind Hollow Yurt Trip

Here are some photos from up our most recent yurt trip to Blind Hollow. It was a nice, warm day as we skinned in.





At night, we engaged in some interpretive dance moves.





Of course, we spent most of our time skinning and hanging out at the yurt. However, we did manage to ski a couple of times. Before we hit this slope, Megan and I dug a snow pit to assess stability of the snowpack.




This video shows a new and easy method for assessing snowpack stability:

Primary Burnout

This video does a good job of summing up the state of the democratic primary. We've had about a month or so of the same story--Hillary does well enough to fight another day of what will turn out to be a losing battle. Cough...Wheeze...



The Hillary Deathwatch (the percentage chance of Hillary winning the nomination) has jumped from 9.9 to 10.7 percent.

The dregs of the Netflix Queue

If you are a Netflix subscriber, you probably have a few lame movies languishing at the bottom of your queue. You will probably never watch these movies, nor will you take them out of your queue. Here's a flick that languished at the bottom of my queue for about 20 months--for good reason. The movie is poorly lit, the acting uneven, and the sound sounds like it was recorded using a cassette recorder.

"North Dallas 40" was part of the narrow sub-genere of 1970s professional sports movies (also see Semi-Tough and the recently-remade Longest Yard). I have to say that I've never seen a more unconvincing athlete than Nick Nolte in this movie. Mercifly, most of the movie takes place off-field, where Nolte's character guzzles booze, pops pills, smokes cigars, blasts his shotgun indiscriminately, chars steaks on the grill, and hits on a woman who doesn't like football. The Sunday Night Movie promo (above) pretty much sums it up.

Also, one of the movie extras looked eerily like Kevvy Kevv (see hazy photo above).

State of the garden: late April

We have had a few nice, springlike days here in Logan. As a result, we decided to plant some crops: onions, garlic, carrots, peas, lettuce, broccoli, etc. Anything that could withstand some cold weather--it's already snowed on the garden twice. It doesn't look like much now, but wait until June...

Mini Rottweiler

Most of y'all have met Callie, our 50 pound Rottweiler. She pretty much runs the show around our house. This photo was taken halfway up Logan Peak, during a backcountry skiing tour.

Jimmy Dean is for Texans!

Here's another one of my favorite You-Yube videos. What lesson did I learn? Don't come between a man and his sausage.

Laughing Baby

Megan is always asking me to help her find new ways to waste time. Yesterday, she seemed especially irked that I hadn't told her about "The Laughing Baby." Here it is, for those of you who haven't seen it.