windsledding

happy memorial day to all two of our readers! i hope you both take a moment to reflect on the sacrifice that many men and women have made to keep us safe in this land of the free and home of the chotus.

this weekend, the skis were able to partake in two of our favorite hobbies: hiking and farming. the boyski played farmer in god's country (aka western massachusetts) while the girlski climbed mt washington.

after returning from my hike, i was perusing some mountaineering websites and stumbled across a link to a nyt article about tuckerman's ravine. (if you don't have a log in to nyt go here to get a password). during my saunter of the world wide web, i also found this great clip. it's a video of a couple of the observers that stay in mt washington's weather observatory. this was taken during the night of the biggest storm this winter. enjoy.

like a brad paisley song....

wanting to live out the words of a brad paisley song, the skis ventured to the show-me state (aka God's Country) to experience these lyrics "moonlight on a duck blind, catfish on a trotline. the sun sets about nine. this time of year..."

the picture shows boyski and brother-in-law pulling a catfish out of the missississippi river one early morning. the skis caught enough fish to host a nice little fish fry for the extended family....including fried okra, strawberries, orange jello with fruit chunks, and over 300 shotgun shells to shoot skeet.

.....and just like laura corse says, "a good time was had by all."