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Month: November 2005

  • Our Thanksgiving

    Ann’s mom is visiting, and they decide to put together a low-key Thanksgiving-style dinner with some of our friends. They make Cornish hens, mashed potatoes and gravy, green beans with carmelized onions, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. Carol has pumpkin flan (made from our last CSA item – a beautiful pumpkin) ready for dessert. It’s great…

  • Balloon and Lake

    This morning the balloon was flying again, and I resolved to get a better shot of it this time. Sights like this help take the stress out of going to work.

  • Tiny Balloon – First Commute Picture

    I love my current bicycle commute along the Cache La Poudre River in Fort Collins, Colorado. A while back I thought I’d like to have some pictures of it, especially as the seasons change, to remember it by. This is the first execution of that idea. There’s a hot air balloon above the horizon. It…

  • Infirmary Slabs in South St. Vrain Canyon

    We milk another day of climbing out of the season! It was actually pretty nice out, and we had this crag to ourselves. Ann confidently chose to lead Acts of Contrition, a dicey 5.8 slab, as her first climb of the day. It worked her, and she took her first lead fall, but I was…

  • Movie: The Opposite of Sex (1998)

    The self-deprecating and self-referential style that confronts you from the opening scene hits a little too close to home in its criticisms of itself. It’s not a lost cause though, the characters are entertaining and remind me of people I’ve known, and the actors do a good job with them. Christina Ricci especially does well…