Dogs

Dogs can be teachers, guides, and similar to children in how they test us and show us a world we might otherwise pass through unaware.

Skijoring Basics

Skijoring Basics

Java and I managed to get to a skijoring training session today for the first time this year. Lovely setting, huh? Training takes place at an electrical substation. Last year, we went to a couple training sessions and hit the skijoring trails several times. But Java wasn’t well trained enough and I had never cross…

Icebergs

Icebergs

I hate to keep showing the same old river shots and cold, stark photos, but hey, it is what it is this time of year. And the river keeps changing. It looked like it may have come up over the walking path and then receded again. I only know that I couldn’t get this close…

Cold

Cold

Not too much to report on outdoor activity. The only aerobics I’ve done lately is to rush from my warm car to a warm building and some short sprints on my elliptical while catching up on the latest Grey’s Anatomy and Fringe episodes, that I watch on my tiny laptop screen. Unfortunately, I’m not like…

Down With Grit

Down With Grit

Well, the weather was not so bad today but housecleaning called. My friends have this thing about food textures that bug them; I can’t comprehend this. But I’m that way about my house. Grit crunching underfoot is like biting into tinfoil with fillings! And the Java hair floats everywhere! It lands in sinks! On tables!…

Not Frigid

Not Frigid

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.— J.B. Priestly (1894-1984) English Author Today was a good example of a day when I should have ignored the weather peoples. I listened to their predictions and killed…

A Sunny but Cool Weekend

A Sunny but Cool Weekend

I went cross country skiing Saturday afternoon. It was wonderful seeing the sun and the bluest of blue skies. No wind was a plus too. We explored a few new trails, getting into the “harder” but not “hardest” trails yet. Only one nasty spill. I had my usual problem with going down a hill and having…