Thanks Marge.

Our daughter arrived last night from Denver. Had a long walk this morning while the 20# turkey cooked. Lotsa leftovers; I'm thinking of making and freezing a bunch of pot pies.

The wife has to work tomorrow, so Meaghan & I are kicking around the idea of hitting up Clear Creek Canyon. I've never been.

And even closer to the Tetons

Curt

idaho falls!! that's almost utah!! anyhooo, close to city of rocks, one of my favourite places. maybe i'll join you for some climbing next year

woohoo!

congrats dude. closer to some good climbing eh? that's fantastic. when do you move? the kids coming along early or are you waiting until after x-mas? how about the house?

dude, that awesome. well done!

looks like a nice day.

i worked this morning. first training day at the ski hill. nothing like team building exercises.


almost shot myself in the face

and looks who has a new job, too. this guy (two thumbs pointing at my chest).

small work. social media stuff for an art supplies website. doesn't pay overly well, but the guys seem good and the work is good and it'll help pad build increase / augment / balloon create some cash in the US again, and it means i may even get to visit my family next july when my grandmother hits 90.



Things are looking up.

strong werk!!!

congrats

So I have this long-term project to document flamenco. Was going for a while to flamenco classes to draw the dancers sat mornings. stopped because I needed to add english classes sat mornings, but I still kept in touch with the owner of the school and have been attending various events. love the scene, just could never afford to take classes myself, or take the time off teaching to continue practicing drawing.

went to a "talent show" that they have every year, which is basically just a christmas party with some various people who are also on the periphery of the school mixing with the teachers and students. my second year going and my portuguese this time allowed me to participate a lot more.

turns out I won a year's worth of free classes starting in 2014. The Lady is already hoping we can dance sevillanas at our wedding. not sure where I'm going to find time, but I feel this is a good winner.

sevillanas isn't exactly flamenco, but it can be as even though it's supposedly older than flamenco sevillanas was greatly influenced by flamenco about 200 years ago. I'm kind of sort of looking forward to it.

here's a reasonable video of it (better as a group starting at the 1min mark): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC3GGwvtH2I

however, it's a group dance, but this one is damn cool (lady dancing alone with mirrors): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DWlngNFIdY

The plan as it now stands.
I'll head up for a late Jan start. Skis and climbing gear are on the top of the packing list. Followed closely by WARM clothes. The wife and munchkins will come up after skull gets out Mid June.

Been cleaning out the home office. I sure have a lot of old junk. Trash bin and recycle bin were pretty full today.

wut can I say...I read a lot.

New tires for the Tundra are 'spensive!

So is 150 board feet of cherry. Even with a commercial discount.

At least the jobs are starting to roll in. Starting a bed and nightstand, and bidding other projects that should keep me busy for the next 3 months. I can't believe what I can get away with charging here.

I can't. Master craftsmen are not quite plentiful west of Appalachia.

Now if all of these peripheral expenses would just go away and leave me alone: new tires, plane tix for the son for Christmas, new tires for the rope gun, replacement machinery for what didn't make the cross country trip, loose wimmen. *

I need to run an add in the paper to get more furniture jobs, most of the leads are cabinets.

*
The last one is actually my wife, but her prices have gone up too.

So, I have decided to boycott my personal stalkerbook page, too much crapola. I would have suspended it outright but then I couldn't post in either of my work related pages. I'm hoping to update the woodworking page soon with pics of the bed in progress.

So, I have decided to boycott my personal stalkerbook page, too much crapola. I would have suspended it outright but then I couldn't post in either of my work related pages. I'm hoping to update the woodworking page soon with pics of the bed in progress.

Snowing now in Boulder. 6-9" expected.

I prefer the no snow, rock climbing weather, may have to find an ice pardner, pardner.

ice, not for me. i almost froze my fingers off being a belay slave for a rockclimbing partner.

just get out the snowshoes or skis