6/21/11 Dead Zones

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/ipso-2011-ocean-report-mass-extinction_n_880656.html?ncid=webmail3

Don't buy into industrial farming.  The animal waste is dumped into our waterways producing dead zones where nothing can live.  Buy local and organic.

This damn gay thing!

So that idiot ex Giants football player who opposes gay marriage...one of the comments from people reading the story..."get your head out of the closet.  Gay people are everywhere.  Who do you think designed your uniform?"  Brilliant!  Do these ignorant people not realize that we suffer many financial burdens by not being able to get married?  Why doesn't everyone get a civil union then get married in their head banging church afterwards if they want?  All I can say is straight marriage rocks.  Just ask Arnold, Tiger, Edwards, and Wiener's wiener.  

Just saying

Just another day in religion

"Tensions between Muslims and Coptic Christians, who make up about 10 percent of the population here, have risen steadily since the sweeping vows of unity (by Muslims) during the revolution that toppled President Hosni Mubarak three months ago. Copts say they have felt increasingly embattled since clashes just south of Cairo left a church burning last month."


I don't defend any religion (I think they all suck) but it always seems that the 'beat upon' turn into the beaters.   The list of beat upon turning into beaters will go on and on until the last bit of air leaves this planet.

Nuclear, Pukelear

"Although the agency says plants are operating more safely today than they were at the dawn of the nuclear industry, when shutdowns were common, safety experts, Congressional critics and even the agency’s own internal monitors say the N.R.C. is prone to dither when companies complain that its proposed actions would cost time or money. The promise of lucrative industry work after officials leave the commission probably doesn’t help, critics say, pointing to dozens over the years who have taken jobs with nuclear power companies and lobbying firms.


Situated on the banks of the Connecticut River, the 39-year-old Vermont Yankee, whose reactor is similar in design to the stricken plant in Japan, suffered the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 2007. In January 2010, the plant’s operator, Entergy, discovered that nearby soil and groundwater had been contaminated by radioactive tritium, which had apparently leaked from underground piping. Just months before, the company assured state lawmakers that no such piping existed at the plant."


That's nice.  So glad the NRC renewed their license.  I would say how quickly we have forgotten about the Hanford Nuclear Plant and the leakage into the soil there but I can't because it's hard to forget about something you are STILL cleaning up 30 years later!!!!!  

Population Explosion!!

"For instance, Yemen, a country whose population has quintupled since 1950, to 25 million, would see its numbers quadruple again, to 100 million, by century’s end, if the projections prove accurate. Yemen already depends on food imports and faces critical water shortages."


Isn't this where many of the terrorists are coming from?  Bill Gates concentrate on population control not just vaccinations...or is that your big secret?  Man, you are good.  


Read more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/04population.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2

5/2/11 The Consequence of Bin Laden

Ponder this readers:

What if we had NEVER gone into Afghanistan to "find" Bin Laden and start the 
"war on terror"?  What if we had NEVER gone into Iraq to "not-find" WMD's and 
start another "war on terror"?  Do you think that Bin Laden would have been able 
to kill over 5,000 more Americans (the number of military personnel who have 
lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq).  Do you think he would have been able 
to seriously wound over 45,000 Americans (the number of military personnel 
injured in the two wars).  Would over 100,000 civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq 
been killed by Bin Laden (a conservative quantity of civilians killed during the 
operations).  Do you think he would have been able to get his hands on over a 
trillion dollars of our tax dollars (the amount of money we've spent on these 
wars in the last 10 years?).  What about all the animosity the US generated 
around the world from our actions?  Does the killing of Bin Laden, really make 
New Yorkers/Americans feel safer?  Based on the above, the finding/killing of 
Bin Laden (which took 10 long and embarrassing years), and the unfortunate 
display of celebrating that occurred outside the White House and Ground 
Zero.....based on all of this, how can the killing of Bin Laden yesterday be 
called a victory?  =

Reporter who was sexually attacked in Libya

Logan told the Times that the attack lasted for 40 minutes and involved 200 to 300 men.

"For an extended period of time, they raped me with their hands," she said. "My clothes were torn to pieces...what really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence."

And we want to send American men and women into this ignorant, violent part of the world to die?  For what?

"Ms. Cheng was arrested on what was supposed to have been her wedding day last fall for sending a single sarcastic Twitter message that included the words “charge, angry youth.” The government, lacking a sense of humor, sentenced her to a year in labor camp."


We freely import mass quantities of cheap, disposable junk from China that fills our oceans and dumps.  We buy these products for not much more than the slave labor rates that China pays their people thus never giving companies using American employees a chance to compete.  Then we borrow money whenever we want so we can keep on buying these cheap products which keeps the vicious cycle of human rights violations, garbage pollution and American unemployment right in place.  


That's nice.

Your Tax Dollars Used to Defend Discrimination

A prominent law firm from Atlanta has resigned as lead council for defending the law on marriage that discriminates against gay people.

In a statement, a spokesman for Mr. Boehner, Brendan Buck, said: “The speaker is disappointed in the firm’s decision and its careless disregard for its responsibilities to the House in this constitutional matter. 

Democrats, including Representative Nancy Pelosi, the minority leader, have criticized Mr. Boehner for seeking public funds to defend the law. A spokesman for Ms. Pelosi said in a statement that she “vigorously opposes” using “any taxpayer resources to defend discrimination, at a time when Republicans in Congress are cutting critical initiatives like education and infrastructure.”

Drug makers spent about $6.3 billion on marketing visits to doctors in 2009, the last year that such figures were available, according to IMS Health. 


$6.3 billion on buying doctors cocktails and dinner?  This is how they decide on which drugs we take? If the drug companies have that much disposable income available (that doesn't count advertising dollars) than how does alternative medicine ever stand a chance?  All the money is going into bandaids and very little into actual solutions.  

Happy Birthday Amy! Tax Day Too!

A "gay tax"? Hard to believe, but it's true. When same-sex couples join other Americans in filing their tax returns today, they'll feel the economic sting of marriage discrimination. Because of the exclusion from marriage, same-sex couples will pay more in taxes than different-sex couples. In many cases, they'll pay tens of thousands of dollars more over their lifetimes. That's why we're taking action this Tax Day. Join Freedom to Marry in petitioning House Speaker John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to demand an end to the "gay tax" and a repeal of the so-called Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).

4/16/11 Happy Birthday Juliana!

As millions of Americans prepare to file their income taxes ahead of Monday’s deadline, we look at how corporations and the wealthy use offshore banks and tax havens to avoid paying taxes and other governmental regulations. "Tax havens have grown so fast in the era of globalization, since the 1970s, that they are now right at the heart of the global economy and are absolutely huge," says our guest, British journalist Nicholas Shaxson. "There are anywhere between $10 and $20 trillion sitting offshore at the moment. Half of world trade is processed in one way or another through tax havens." Shaxson is the author of the new book, Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens. [includes rush transcript]=

I think if we eliminated the wedding ceremony there would be a lot less divorce.  

4/14/11

Beyond the science, there’s the fact that many social conservatives are simply opposed to giving women the ability to have sex without the possibility of procreation.

“Contraception helps reduce one’s sexual partner to just a sexual object since it renders sexual intercourse to be without any real commitments,” says Janet Smith, the author of “Contraception: Why Not.”

So only men think they can be fuckers?  That's nice.  

4/12/11

"Mr. Hughes, using Mr. Howarth’s calculations, also concludes that replacing coal with natural gas for base load electricity production will most likely make greenhouse gas emissions worse. It would be better, he argues, to improve energy efficiency, rely on natural gas in niche vehicle markets and balance continued construction of wind and solar power to produce electricity."


So finally someone is talking about energy efficiency and not just finding more energy.  That should apply to birth control as well.  Why do we talk about feeding the hungry but never mention birth control?  It should be addressed in the same sentence.  

4/11/11

The reason for pay discrimination:  "Women may be held back because surprisingly few of them are in senior management at many companies. Research firm Catalyst found that women held 15.7% of the board seats in Fortune 500 companies in 2010, an inexplicable statistic given the number of available qualified female candidates. More than 10 percent had no women serving on their boards."

See full article from DailyFinance:http://srph.it/htjljZ

NYT:
"While the clients lost nearly all their money, JPMorgan collected nearly $1.9 billion from Sigma’s demise, according to the suit."


Why are they even writing about this?  It happens every day on Wall Street.  

4/8/11

Mississippi:
A new poll gauging Mississippi Republicans' preferences going into the 2012 election ended up revealing something more startling: 46 percent of GOP voters in the state think interracial marriage should be illegal.



I guess they won't be voting for gay marriage anytime soon.

4/7/11

"China in particular stands out because of its sudden role as the world's factory, its enormous population, and the mass migration of that population to urban centers; 350 million people, equivalent to the entire U.S. population, will be moving to its cities over the next 10 years. China now emits more mercury than the United States, India, and Europe combined. "What's different about China is the scale and speed of pollution and environmental degradation," Turner says. "It's like nothing the world has ever seen."


http://www.usautism.org/USAAA_Newsletter/usaaa_newsletter_2011/usaaa_newsletter_special_edition_032911.htm


t's crazy but we were able to pollute (and are still especially with industrial farming) for how many years?  When Brazil was asked why they don't stop cutting down the Amazon they said: "oh you get to clear cut your nation for profit but we can't?"

4/3/11 Our Last Day

I hope not but it may be so.  We might be ending the season with a bluebird day but I didn't follow my advice from my very first blog entry over a year ago:  "Don't go down Bear Mountain's Outer Limits at the end of the day!".  I have such a short memory (or no memory at all depending on who you are talking to),  I just headed right on down those nasty looking, ice sided, huge ass bumps under the chair.  So not only did I go flying sideways but I did it, once again, in front of a 1000 people.  I should just copy and paste that first entry it sounds so similar.  You know the first entry about sliding down the rusty pipe?  Oh well... onwards and upwards.

We rode the chair up with a 10 year old named Madison who was competing in the mogul challenge.  We kept on lapping the run so we could watch her compete.  I had a feeling she might be going so I skied really fast to get there and low and behold there she was in the starting gate.  She takes off and I scream "GO MADISON".  She crashed.  I really think I was the cause of that crash.  I probably scared the shit out of her.  Hummm...story of my life.

We skied the entire mountain under perfect temperatures.  It was a () () () only because Ron decided not to ski and I made Madison crash.  So sorry:(.


Comment:
Kazakhstan

Kanat, a construction worker who would not give his last name, said he had voted for Mr. Nazarbayev, even though he thought the president and his family had enriched themselves fabulously during the past two decades.

“They already have everything they need,” he said. “They can afford to think about the public.”

MR. KANAT,  IT JUST DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY!!!!

4/2/11 Happy Birthday Marie!

Strange day of skiing.  One minute it would be a blizzard where there would be so much snow coming down I was covered from head to toe.  I probably looked like a big snowball on the mountain.  Then the next minute it was sunny and the snow was getting too soft.  Really, really strange.  The Bear Mountain mogul challenge was fun to watch because some of them had to compete in the blizzard.  That made it interesting.  Donna Weinbrecht was there but I don't think she goes down moguls any more after all of those knee operations.

I will have to give the run of the day to three places Growler (lots of snow in the trees), Vertigo, and the Needles Eye bumps. Julio and Outer Limits were worn out.  It's going to snow more tonight.   It was overall a () () + just because it was a bit crowded for my taste and the snow was tricky for my guest.

4/1/11 April Fools

The only April fools are the ones that aren't up here skiing!  We went to Okemo for $10 day.   You just had to bring canned goods for charity.  Great deal.  Great for the food drive.   I've been skiing in Vermont most of my adult life and I've never skied there.  It was terrific even though it was really wet and surprisingly chilly.  No pictures because it was too friggen nasty to take my IPhone out of my pocket.  It has been snowing hard all day.  I'm not sure how much new snow we have now but I would think it's at least 6 inches and it's still coming down.  I think Ron liked the skiing too.  Ron and Kim went to their high school prom together.  Interesting.   Okemo has  long runs and there was plenty of stuff to hold my interest including great tree runs.  I don't know what it would be like on a busy weekend because it's relatively small but today was really good.  I really enjoy the steeps of Killington but it's good to mix it up.  We try to ski 'off piste'  (that's what I call skiing away from Killington) at least once or twice a season.  We are hopefully going to make it up to Stowe before our season is over.  We are getting ready to start our summer project so I don't know how much longer we will be able to ski  :(


Today's comment:
Japan
"There is no doubt in my mind that it is dangerous in there, (the evacuation zone)" said Kazuko Hirohara, a 52-year-old nurse from Minami Soma. "I just wish they would have thought about safety before they ruined our lives."

3/31/11 Lot of snow on the way!

I WILL be going skiing tomorrow.  Ron is driving up tonight.  Wish you could all be here for what will probably be the final dump of the season.


Libya:
"To many Libyan people, the biggest question mark about Gadhafi does not involve his repressive and dictatorial rule, delusional statements or brazen lies. Behind closed doors, for years, they've wondered if he is Jewish. Last week the issue came out in the open, as NBC'sRichard Engel reported from Libya that one in five rebels was fighting Gadhafi because he believes the leader is Jewish."



Oh boy.   I'm just really positive now that there aren't any Al Qaeda in the mix.  And I have a bridge to sell you.  

3/30/11

http://www.gadling.com/2011/03/30/boy-skis-into-bear-den-lives-to-tell-tale/

3/29/11

A  couple of late-season snow producers will be on the weather map this week alone, with the greatest threat being in interior parts of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast from Thursday night through Friday. A storm moving northward through this region has the potential to produce heavy, wet snow from West Virginia northward into parts of New York state and interior New England.


Hummmm


NYTimes:
For months, officials say, the house was home to “maternity tourists,” in this case, women from China who had paid tens of thousands of dollars to deliver their babies in the United States, making the infants automatic American citizens.


That's nice.

3/28/11

Nice sunny day again today.  The slopes were pretty worn out but the temps will rise tomorrow.  I'll keep you posted.

Libya:  

According to The Daily Telegraph in London, rebel front-line forces include what one rebel commander calls the “patriots and good Muslims” who fought American forces in Iraq.

That's nice.

3/27/11 Bluebird day but cold

Same snow different day.  What I can say is that the sun was nice and bright.  Without it life would have been bitter on the mountain today.  I had some good tree skiing though.  It's kind of remarkable that the trees are better then the groomers.  I finally skied by Juilio when it was actually open.  I jumped right in.  I wish I could do that every day.

It was very fun skiing with my sis.  I'll give today () () () just because my sister was here and I got to go down Julio.

3/25/11 Another no ski day...what's happening!

G.E. Pays No Taxes General Electric was one of the companies that received a huge Fed bailout.  Now it turns out that the nation's largest corporation didn't pay a penny in U.S. taxes last year.  In fact, G.E. claimed a tax benefit of $3.2 billion. It posted worldwide profits in 2010 of $14.2 billion including $5.1 billion from its operations in the United States. G.E. is not alone. Discussing The New York Times article on his weekly nationwide radio show, Sanders told Thom Hartmann that Bank of America paid no taxes on $4 billion in income.  Exxon, for all its profits, got a rebate.  Etc., etc. To listen to the opening segment of Friday's interview with m Hartmann, click here. To read the article in The New York Times, click here.

3/24/11 It was Ok

I will give today () () snowballs.  It was nothing special but it wasn't completely bad either.  I should have alpine'd.  I will hang up my tele's until or if we get anymore snow or the weather turns much warmer.  This snow is good for fast, cruising GS.  The trees were actually good and Julio was even open but I can't go down that on tele's.   Every time we go to ski Julio it's closed and now I ski past on tele's and it's open.  Go figure.  Tomorrow we will go down Julio.

Warmth really won't hit for another week.  We are in some sort of a cold spell.  There is still a really solid base and I think spring skiing will last thru April.

until then,
Sarah

3/23/11 Look at who is viewing the blog

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3/22/11 No Ski Day - Too busy

Despite Protests, NRC Renews License for Vermont Nuclear Plant

Mar 22, 2011 – 12:48 PM

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Despite opposition by key state officials and worldwide fears over safety risks in the wake of Japan's nuclear crisis, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has granted a new 20-year operating license for the Vermont Yankee atomic power plant.

"It is outrageous that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has rubber stamped this old and leaking nuclear reactor for another 20 years of operation even as reactors of the same design have failed and are emitting dangerous levels of radiation in Japan," Greenpeace nuclear policy analyst Jim Riccio said, according to the Brattleboro Reformer.

3/21/11 Stormy Semi Powder Day

We waited until 2:00 to go out because we had to work and the snow didn't start until about 11:30.  I wanted some accumulation before we went up there.  That worn out ice needed to be covered up.  I think we timed it just right.  We skied on about 4 inches of new powder which was just barely enough to cover up the ice on the groomers.  You could NOT go off of the groomers though.  I mean no way no how.  I tried it.  I felt like I was on broken up ice mounds covered with frosting.  It was very strange and extremely dangerous.  The groomers were really, surprisingly, good.  The visibility was a little tough and the wind was a little on the fierce side but other than that it was a good 8 runs.  I'll give it () () () snowballs today.   More snow is suppose to come on Thursday.

Comment for the day:

Lindsay Lohan stay out of the bars.  You are beginning to embarrass even the homeless alcoholics with you antics.

3/20/11 Not Missing Much

I'm glad we didn't have to be responsible for any guests this weekend because they wouldn't have been happy with the conditions.  The beautiful snow during the week was missing because the temps dropped dramatically at night and never warmed up enough during the day.  It doesn't look like we will get warm temps  all week which means we need snow because it's worn out ice again.  It's in the forecast but how much I don't know.   It was a () day.  


So let's move on to a more important topic.  I was just reminded (by reading the attached quote) that the following church receives tax exempt status.  I think that makes sense though.  It's not far off from any other religion.  So why pick and choose.  Just let everyone have a free ride.  It's not like we need the money:


"So these well-known stars that you know, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, are all high-level Scientologists. They have been through that level. They have all been told that Earth, 75 million years ago, was populated by these alien beings sent by the overlord Xenu, who blew them all up and their disembodied souls are inhabiting human bodies. This is the core of what Scientology is. If you have a problem in your life, it's because these disembodied alien creatures are attaching themselves to you and preventing you from doing better. So Scientology is the one process, they believe, by which you can remove these alien souls. They're called body thetans and you can audit them away. It's strange enough that Tom Cruise and John Travolta belong to this strange organization, but it's even stranger to realize that's what they believe. These stars go through that same kind of training, accept it and now try to convince the rest of us that it makes sense when actually it doesn't at all."



until then,

3/19/11

Pre ski comment:  Close Indian Point.  We don't need that deadly energy source.  Stop consuming.  Learn how to live with less.

3/18/11 Friday the 13th

Just wanted to get your attention.  We did another glorious 13 runs today.  It's Friday.  Get it?  I'm glad the wind was blowing as much as it was today because even with as little clothing that I had on it was hot!  I was hot (always:)).  It was close to 60 degrees but the snow was really, really wonderful.  I know, I know I keep saying that but this spring has a lot of base and even at 60 degrees there wasn't any slush or tricky situations I encountered while bombing down the mountain.  There weren't many people either out there so bombing down the mountain was a blast.  I went faster then I did yesterday which is almost beyond belief, (at least my belief).  It was another () () () () day.  Again, I can't add a + to it because of what is going on in the world out there.  See my comment below.

Why are we getting involved with Libya???????????????  Please you MF's don't get us involved.  Let the Arab states cover their own and let France defend their own oil use.  They didn't want anything to do with us when we went into Iraq now did they?  Sorry Bruno.  It's a great big no!  I don't want anything to do with it.  I'll walk to the friggen mountain with my skis strapped to my back.  My house is open to the commune.

until then,

Sarah

3/17/11 Happy St. Paddy to Coyle and Juliana

The skiing was very good once again.  We skied everything we could.  For some reason only the trees at Snowdon were open.  We wanted to close the day with a run down Julio but no luck.  I don't know what that is all about.  The run of the day was down Super Star on the left hand side.  It looked like slick ice but when you hit it was really nice and fast.  Fast enough to propel you through the softer, slower snow.  I was treating the bumps like gates. I was speeding down today.  It was so nice to alpine.  I liked going fast, fast, faster.   It was another ()()()() snowball day.  The only reason it's not a 4+ is because I couldn't stop thinking about what is going on in Japan.  See my comment below.  We are off to dinner tonight at Cloudland Farm.  A nice brisket and green beer is on the menu.

 I think the courageous workers at the Fukushima Daichi Reactors should abandon ship and be replaced by executives from the Tepco Co. , GE, and the Japanese government officials who approved this mess.  They were the ones who received the benefits from building and maintaining the plants after all.  It's no different from the military: send in the troops to fight the battles of big business so that top executives can be truly enriched.  They need to be paid more for their super intellectual ability to take advantage of every society in the world.  Don't you think?

3/16/11 Rest Day

An article published in NYC about Woodstock, VT:

http://mail.aol.com/33356-111/aol-1/en-us/Suite.aspx

3/15/11 BEAUTIFUL DAY!

You couldn't ask for anything better today.  Ok, maybe you could ask for some more powder but not really because then you would just be plain selfish.  The sun was perfect on our faces.  I was very tired today but I couldn't miss out on the skiing so I forced myself and I even tele'd because I knew the alpine skiing would be really fast and I was too tired to go really fast and make a mistake.  I fell but I always fall on my tele's.  I'm going much slower though so it's ok, usually.  I always seem to go down on my left hip.  This time I almost went all the way down Outer Limits on my back but I was able to flip my skis around just in time to stop before I really got going fast.  I told Kim we had to go do something easier because I was just too tired and I didn't want to make a mistake so she suggested the trees.  I'm telling you if I'm ever found dead in a ditch somewhere go after the obvious!  Just kidding:)  I'm going to out live everyone and then someone is going to be sorry.  I don't know who but someone will be.   We ended up skiing almost the entire mountain and even climbed the Catwalk.  13 glorious runs.  I'm really tired now.  A good tired though.  () () () () snowball day!!

We are looking at a little questionable weather for tomorrow but every time they say that we end up getting 20 inches of snow.  Nothing's a done deal until it's done that's what I say and that's what the hole in my roof and the 10 feet of snow that is pressing on my kitchen window says too.

Until then,

Sarah

3/13/11 Beach Day

Heading back up to do some spring skiing. The beach and tennis were great though.  It would have been better if Juliana and I would have beat Kim and Juliana's mom but that's rare.  No one beats Kim.  She doesn't like that!  We had a great weekend with the girls.  Thanks girls.

3/6/11 Rain

Again, that's all I have to say about that. Snow's acomming our way! It's a dumpper!

3/3/11 Colddddddd

A bluebird day but a bit on the cold side.  I tele'd because there wasn't any tree skiing going to be happening today unless you wanted to hurt yourself.  We did a fast 10 runs (I mean fast) before we had to go into the Killington bar to get warm.  We just had to:).  Nice band playing and nice beer pouring.   I took a bad fall on the slippery bumps on Superstar right before that (not after the beer you dope!).  It was so bad in fact that Kim had to untangle my skis before I could get up.  Once those tele's take off on a piece of ice they are gone.  No controlling those suckers.  Just a little thumb, knee and hip injury.  No problemo.

Overall a () () () snowball day just because it was a bit chilly, the skiing was limited and I friggen fell but other than that it was a rocking day on the mountain.

until then,
s

3/2/11

We haven't been skiing in the last three days.  Maybe we will go out tomorrow.  The conditions haven't been great so I haven't been motivated.  We hiked Mt. Tom yesterday following a deer trail instead of the regular trail.  The snow was much deeper.  It was a better work out.  We are deciding what to do but I do know we are supposed to get snow today sometime.

until then,
s

2/27/11 And The Oscar Goes to.... Mother Nature

Three days in a row of powder (and my sisters) made my weekend spectacular.   We did a lot of tree skiing.  It was so soft I thought I was skiing cotton candy.  Some people complained that it was a lot of work but to me it was  heaven.  People quit early today because they had to go home after the long holiday week.  We basically had the afternoon to ourselves and it was still snowing.  We are keeping our fingers crossed for tomorrows weather.  A little bit of warm and wet weather in the forecast but I don't think it's going to happen.

until then,
s

2/25/11 A.W.E.S.O.M.E

That's all I have to say about that.  Great Bday for me.  () () () () + snowballs today.

P.S.  While everyone was struggling with the heavy snow Kim went down everything.  I turned around at one point and thought I was looking at a mirror coming down the bumps.

until then,
S

2/23/11 BooHoo

I wondered why I would think the skiing would be any different today since we haven't had any new snow really and the temperatures are still not above freezing.   When I was going down my first run on Super Star I really wondered what I was thinking.  It's still the same sheet of worn out ice.  Can ice be worn out?  Whatever it is it sucks.  Its even worse because it's a vacation week and every bozo is out there skiing/boarding the pipe at Bear.  Don't go there.  Just picture this: ice and bozo's going at warp speed.  For the cherry on top, THEY CAN'T SKI!

I still had a good time because it was sunny and I was getting exercise on my tele's.  I'll say it once again and it won't be my last time: any day on skis is better than a day working!  My sisters are coming up this weekend.  We're getting snow and it's going to be warm.  I promise.  I don't tell fibs.  You are going to love it.  (I'm going to have to block their access to this blog. )  Mary, Quite Contrary,  isn't' coming up.  Something about a threat of divorce because she's away too much.  How does skiing count?  That's just not right.  Wave a white flag then do a flanking action that's what I say!  A Frenchman should understand that.

WINTER STORM WATCH IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BURLINGTON HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM FRIDAY MORNING THROUGH FRIDAY EVENING.

* LOCATIONS...NORTHERN NEW YORK AND VERMONT.

* HAZARD TYPES...MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW.

* ACCUMULATIONS...6 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW POSSIBLE.

* TIMING...LIGHT SNOW WILL DEVELOP LATE THURSDAY NIGHT AND BECOME MODERATE TO HEAVY DURING THE DAY ON FRIDAY.

* IMPACTS...TRAVEL CONDITIONS WILL DETERIORATE ON FRIDAY WITH GUSTY NORTH WINDS FRIDAY AFTERNOON REDUCING VISIBILITIES AND CAUSING SOME BLOWING AND DRIFTING SNOW.