Skier Days: Sara(9), Caroline(3), Susan(0), Charles(2)
Monday night and into Tuesday morning it finally made it down into the twenties. Sara starts the day skiing on Tuesday and Thursday so she gets to sleep in and doesn't need to be down at the Competition Center until 8:30. It was like a miracle the amount of snow that the mountain had put out overnight. The guns were blasting every where and the difference from the day before was marked. The snow had crept down nearly to the bottom of the lift and they were clearly working on filling in the distance. I zipped back up to my desk and had my weekly "face to face" with my boss Mac and then dug into my ridiculous backlog of emails and what appears to be an ever growing to do list. I had worked quite long the night before and so decided to give myself my first treat of the season and sneak out for an hour or so.
I walked down to the locker grabbed my stuff and walked across to the bottom of Barker. I usually leave my pass on my pants, but since my pants are back in Medford in the basement I managed to forget to bring it along :-( Fortunately the lifties knew me and let me slide since going back for it would have pretty much been the end of it. Once I got up top I was able to get in 7, all be it short, runs in just over an hour and be back at my desk in just about an hour and a half. It was well worth it as the day was a real beauty.
The only down side was the need to stop periodically and wipe the frost of the goggles. Punch was pretty slushy as well since the snow makers had not had the time to really let it "cure" by letting the moisture settle out of it. T2 had a lot more attention and was really pretty good with only a few sections that had that yellowish glare to it. The legs are just starting to get in shape so I made the hard decision to head back and skied to the bottom, took off my skis and walked back.
The rest of the day flew by and I managed to at least stay even with the list of tasks that were backing up. The good news is that a number of the projects that I had been nursing along for a while are all starting to come to fruition. Sara had to be picked up at 7pm and this time I was right on time. She had enjoyed her first day of school and her first "Formal Dinner" night, though she was a bit under dressed.
Wednesday started out equally sunny and was my first day driving into Bethel. We efficiently packed everything up and had an easier start as Sara was eating breakfast at school. The drive is 14 miles round trip and the mountains, river and fields were particularly pretty in that light. The only thing that could make them look better would be a coating of white.
Another day of work blow by. I have been dutifully eating up all of the left overs from the weekend and at this point I am getting ready for a change from BBQ and Thanksgiving leftovers. I think that I will have vanquished most of it by the weekend though! Sara seemed happy again this evening and when we got back she gave her skis a quick tune. You can barely see the hole now that it has been fixed.
Find the right balance of allowing her to go it alone and providing a little experience is not easy. That and tolerating 97.9 and its steady diet of rap and hip-hop are probably my greatest challenges as a Dad. Not too terrible in the big scheme of things. Oh well, let's hope the rain that is predicted gets in and out of hear quickly.
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