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April 19, 2021 - Sewing, Cell Phone Bill and A Building on Fire.

Well that was a day. There is no school today.  I paid my cell phone bill at midnight last night. Today I woke up to no cell phone service. I know I literally waited until the last minute to pay it -- but something's not lining up. We took her and a friend to the lake. I liked the crowd at the lake today, I would refer to them as the early spring beach crowd. These are the folks, like ourselves, who don't mind weather 365 days a year. We get outdoors because we know it's good for us. We were all there in our layers with snow on the mountain just above the lake and a cold wind to keep us humble and grateful. We are at the beach. I am so grateful. The cell phone issue turned out to be a nation-wide cell phone outage with one of the providers. My provider. The outage began around midnight last night. Around the time I paid my cellphone bill... It lasted twenty-two hours. Currently, there is a massive plume of smoke outside. It looks close but as we walked down to see which ...

Spring Skiing -- And the Best Day of the Year

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We had the best day skiing yesterday. It is spring skiing and one of our last days on the hill for this year. Getting back on the hills, with ski passes and emergence into mountain life is what I've been working on all her life. And yesterday we really hit it!! She can ski the whole mountain. It was an exhilarating moment when I realized, we are skiing together now! No longer teaching my kiddo to ski, I am now taking her to tour the whole mountain and try out all the runs. It is hard getting kids up to the hill but, on the way home, she said, "thanks for dragging me out."