Happy holidays, Christmas, and anything else you celebrate!
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| Jingle bells |
Lately here in Vernon, everything has turned white. It turned brown for a while, but it's white again now. I don't think anyone around here is going to win anything for betting on a white Christmas...
Due to all the white stuff on the ground, my bike - the one with the big tires which according to our local bike shop owner, I'm not allowed to call it a Fat Bike or a Snow Bike - has been coming in very handy. On Tuesday night I did my first bike ride on groomed snow trails up at Silver Star, with an experimental slide run down a ski run. There was a predictable amount of going sideways, backwards, over the handlebars, and generally getting away with things you can't do on dirt without losing a lot of skin. Fun times indeed. Kal Park is also all white again (as it just about everything), so rolling on the fat tires looks to be the way I will keeping things - unless I get around to going skiing.
During the brown phase, before the white came back, Lina went for a paddle which I just found the pictures of:
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| Hello ducky |
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| So many browns |
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| Is that some green? No, just greeny-brown |
During this period I got around to finishing a project I started months ago, which coincidentally is mostly brown:
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| I finally got my welder hooked up to something appropriate - the power supply for the oven. |
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| Don't worry - the oven still works, but we can't weld and make granola at the same time. |
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| Here we are - our neighbor in Vancouver's old stairs combined with some stainless rod from Chris' family's cabin roof. Mix together with some electricity and you get shelves. |
And speaking of making things, it's getting very close to the time something small and loud will come out of Lina's belly. Whenever we're asked whether we're ready, I find it hard to say yes... but we've run out of things to do to get ready. We are at least feeling ready to meet Junior when they come out - which is now tantalizingly close. Things are about to get very different.
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| The last belly picture? |
