Boys Weekend

As luck would have it I was able to get away with the boys for opening weekend at Whitefish.  While the forecast wasn't great the week prior, things really shaped up by the time we arrived.  In the end, 5 of us showed up, including CG, who turned the big 40 and Merc., who came all the way from Vic. After the usual gong show upon arriving and getting to the hill, we manged to get some good skiing in day one.  Chris...

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Christmas Tree

With a higher roof this year, we ended up with a rather large tree.  Even after we trimmed it down it was still pretty big. The kids had a pretty fun time decorating the tree and we had enough decorations as well.  I did have to make the tree a little asymmetrical to fit it in the corne...

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old movies

I came across an article today about obscure scifi movies and it got me thinking.  I thought I would post some trailers from some old movies that the article reminded me of. times have sure changed as far as movies g...

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On the Hunt for Snow

This last weekend we headed to Waterton to see how much snow they had.  Greeted with rain on the drive out, we didn't have much hope.  The townsite was pretty bare, but our hopes improved as we headed up to Cameron Lake.  Bad news for those ice climbers out there, things looked pretty thin. When we got to barrier, we did find enough snow to play and there were several cars parked and evidence of skiers out. The Park was out...

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