Tubing Down A Camel's Back

One Hamilton Per Descent

We took this fool tubing today. She had a blast. Those things go darn fast. Camelback is where it's at tho. I think we'll go back next winter.

Gotta save the money...

Little Lake Love Affair

reaching back to early June finally...

Mostly Wet, And Some Monkeys

We realized last night that we haven't even watched any of the video from our vacation last week. There's gotta be about 60 files. I grabbed a few highlights and thru together a little preview... it goes by fast.

We haven't even unpacked our suitcases yet, either.

The Lake We Know Well Now

Whew!

We knew our time on the lake would be limited today, due to rain, but we still managed to get it all in. Crazy day on the water. And Yes, Yuula loved the hell out of it. We may need to keep an eye on that one.

 Laura took no time getting aboard the jetski

Yuula was just loving the boatlife. All she wanted was to "go faster".

This is a lovely photo of me aerating my beard 

Giving some swim lessons 

Immediately upgraded to jetski lessons 

This looks as amazing as it is 

Sandwich floating 

Boys take on the tubes 

Yuula thinks it's funny 

Now it's her turn 

Mommy goes solo 

I have a feeling this is gonna be ugly 

We would take it with us, if we could...

More Firsts On The James

Lake James has a strange power over us. This time around we took it up a nothc and did a little high-speed tubing and jet skiing. Pretty intense. Laura wants one for Christmas. I told her it would not fit under our tree and I AM NOT building another shed. So... that's that.


On the tube...


under the tube...


lost the drawers.


Laura went on at kiddie speed.


More fun that I expected. We went out three times.

Blizzard '08

This is why we moved here!



To be snowed in and shut out from the world. Didn't come at the best time, but really when would that be. I had to bail out of my trip to Alabama (sorry Whit) but we got the job done anyhow (ahh the miracle of modern technology - I'm hoping to someday teach a whole show from underneath my covers). And Laura had to call out of work not once but twice! It just wasn't happening. She really did try but after the car got stuck in front of the house for the 3rd time we decided to call it a loss.



Abominable Snowman sighting





Dani & Vic were on their way east for their holiday visit and managed to get in just before the snow hit, and to their surprise, we were there waiting for them. We locked ourselves up and tried to stay warm. Alcohol helped. And fried food.


the fridge was full






It snowed quite a bit. We caught up, ate Christmas cookies, drank a few bottles of eggnog (Pennsylvania Dutch of course) and settled down for a long winters nap. Good to see them.



When it did let up briefly we got brave and headed outside to tube a bit, one of the benefits of living across the street from ski slopes. More fun than I thought it would be, plus it prompted Laura to give me one of my Christmas gifts early. Would've been mean to watch me freeze knowing that box sitting under the tree would have saved me from hypothermia.




That's Vic in the pink hat, Laura in the middle and Dani in the far lane







It was getting cold & beginning to snow again so we settled in with a remarkable dinner of cornish hen, stuffing and roasted asparagus & cauliflower...







...and turned on the Giants game. This was for homefield in the playoffs. By the time we got to cookies & eggnog the game had gotten really good and they were able to pull it out in overtime after a miraculous two point conversion that tied the game at 28. I feel good about this post season.

So we survivied our first snow-in. Laura went back to work today and Dani & Vic headed off to the shore to scout out some venues for September. We learned a few lessons. We need new tires. Or a tank maybe. And have to make sure we always have plenty of firewood. We'll be more prepared for the next blizzard. Which may be soon. It's snowing right now.