technical difficulties

That's largely the reason for the delay between posts: one day we turned on the computer and the Internet just wasn't there.  But I, with my immense technical skills (pushing buttons, unplugging everything, plugging everything back in, pushing buttons again), fixed the Internet and here we are again.  So what did you miss?

We skied on Saturday.  It was okay but not great, the snow having been chopped up and skied off everywhere.  H got back on his telemark skis (day #5) but was a little frustrated, saying he didn't feel like he was improving any.  This, of course, was nonsense as I could tell his speed was MUCH faster - apparently the days when I get down the mountain ahead of him are over now - he just needs to work on his form.

Since it hadn't been that great on Saturday, when we awoke to cloudy skies Sunday we decided not to strap the skis back on, instead doing house stuff (finishing up the downstairs guest bedroom, cleaning, laundry, etc.) and walking the dog.  Not that exciting, tho' it needed to be done.  And no, I'm not posting a photo of the guest bedroom yet because by "finishing up" I mean "putting the bed together and installing privacy curtains on the glass doors," and you can't see it until it gets a bed skirt and a duvet cover.

We got a hugenormous snow storm Monday night that dropped over a foot of snow at the house (and took down a sizable branch from the tree out front) and another 22" up at Alta.  I'd thought about taking a day off to ski but the weather hasn't been sunny until today - and now I'm busy at work and can't go.  The photos of today when they opened Devil's Castle under bluebird skies were amazing.

And then today, with the sun out, it reached 65 degrees here in the valley, melting all the snow off the front lawn.  In fact, it's warmer outside the house than in, since we tend to keep the thermostat set at 60 when it's just us.  Not to worry, you ski guests arriving next week: H promised me he'd turn it up to 65 just for you!