I looked through our pictures, and can't find anything recent that invokes a blogging about. Obviously this means we need to go do stuff and take more pictures. So instead you get a couple ramblings from me.
Every year that we've lived in Oregon, for somewhere between 1 and 2 weeks in February, we get sunshine and beautiful weather. We're in that window right now - it's awesome. It's just enough to hold me through till summer gets here in June or July - almost. It's really more of a cruel reminder that it's sunny somewhere else, but it will be back to rain in a couple days. I'm glad for the little lift though. So seeing as it's not raining, we've been doing some yard work. We planted some blueberry bushes, moved a couple plants from the front to the back yard and Susie did a lot of work on the path back to the shed. There's still a ways to go, but it's coming along well.
I've been working on a couple projects in the garage. Our neighbors - Rob and Dawn - have a tanning salon just down the hill. Rob had talked to me a couple weeks ago about building a little stand to cover over some of the cables, wiring, etc running from the front desk to the tanning beds. I have some left-over wood scraps in the garage, so i'm putting together a table for him. It's coming along well, i have to sand, stain and put a finish on it, but it's a piece that i'm going to be proud to been seen by the public. I'll have to take a couple pictures of that.
I'm a little hesitant to admit this, but we watched a move the other night - Hot Rod. Man-oh-man was it a stupid-silly movie. I'm not sure that i'd highly recommend it to anyone unless they were truly looking for a stupid-silly movie. But with that being said, i did a fair amount of laughing at it.
Have a good one ...
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
Snowboarding at Hoodoo
It's been a long time since i've gone snowboarding, but Josh asked me to go a while back, and since my knee has been feeling better, i decided it was time to try it again. We set off way too early (at least for people who like to sleep) and got up to the Hoodoo ski lodge before the lifts were open. On the up side, we drove all the way up to the parking lot and only got stuck behind one semi driving up highway 20 - other than that, we hardly saw anyone. We got to the parking lot and were right up front (another first for me). We headed in, signed away our lives and got fitted for snowboards. Pretty soon we were waddling out to the lifts talking trash and stealing poles from skiers.
The first couple runs were on green runs, just to get our legs back under us. I hadn't boarded in somewhere around 6 or 7 years and Josh hadn't in about 10 - so at first, we looked like rookies. That didn't last long, on our second run we were pulling backside 1080s off phat cliffs - oh wait, that was what i watched on the X Games ...
After a couple runs and surprisingly little time, we headed to the lodge to catch our breath and drink some go-juice. Man-oh-man were we styling in the lodge ... we were fighting off lodge-bunnies left and right.
After a couple mins, we were back to shredding. Somewhere in the mix, we decided we should take the big chair all the way up to the top. There were some great views, and thankfully one blue run (the others were black, and we weren't quite on our games yet).
We were convinced we had somehow learned to jump in the past couple non-riding years, and come to find out, we hadn't. But we gave some great tries, and wound up getting snow in places snow doesn't feel good.
A couple more runs and it was lunch time. A fist-full of cash later, we had lunch in hand and perhaps some spilled down our fronts. At those prices, i would have expected some steak, but oddly enough they fleeced us, then had us stack our trays on the way out. Back to the white-stuff. By this time we're strutting like we own the place - hitting jumps and sticking landings - well, at least hitting some jumps.
Not too long after, and perhaps because we were trying to land some jumps, my knee started talking to me. It was saying things i didn't want to hear, but things that needed to be said. So we called it a day and headed back down.
Good day!
The first couple runs were on green runs, just to get our legs back under us. I hadn't boarded in somewhere around 6 or 7 years and Josh hadn't in about 10 - so at first, we looked like rookies. That didn't last long, on our second run we were pulling backside 1080s off phat cliffs - oh wait, that was what i watched on the X Games ...
After a couple runs and surprisingly little time, we headed to the lodge to catch our breath and drink some go-juice. Man-oh-man were we styling in the lodge ... we were fighting off lodge-bunnies left and right.
After a couple mins, we were back to shredding. Somewhere in the mix, we decided we should take the big chair all the way up to the top. There were some great views, and thankfully one blue run (the others were black, and we weren't quite on our games yet).
We were convinced we had somehow learned to jump in the past couple non-riding years, and come to find out, we hadn't. But we gave some great tries, and wound up getting snow in places snow doesn't feel good.
A couple more runs and it was lunch time. A fist-full of cash later, we had lunch in hand and perhaps some spilled down our fronts. At those prices, i would have expected some steak, but oddly enough they fleeced us, then had us stack our trays on the way out. Back to the white-stuff. By this time we're strutting like we own the place - hitting jumps and sticking landings - well, at least hitting some jumps.
Not too long after, and perhaps because we were trying to land some jumps, my knee started talking to me. It was saying things i didn't want to hear, but things that needed to be said. So we called it a day and headed back down.
Good day!
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