Monday, February 2, 2009

Monday, February 2, 2009

Hm, not much is new, really. We won some money in the Durkee Valley Football Pool. We had the Ravens...

Book 2, Tyler's Law, has gone to the printer, so I should have the first copy in my hot little hand in a few more days...

Saturday, I took a snowshoe trip to the top of the ridge across the creek from the house. There's a gate up there that was left open last fall and needed to be closed; I was pretty sure from looking at the ridge from the other side of the canyon that there was no way to get the four-wheeler up there, so I decided to walk. I've been getting entirely too fat anyway, and it would be good exercise...

Once I got to the gate, it was of course under the snow; I found out that a snowshoe makes a fair to middling snow shovel. The gate is now closed. On the way up, I saw one coyote, way too far away to try to shoot, and on the way back down I saw a bunch of deer. It was a very pleasant day, and a very pleasant walk, about three miles round trip...

Regarding hiking up the ridge on snowshoes: this winter, at D&B's "customer appreciation sale", I bought a set, top and bottom, of DuoFold polypro active base layer. It's supposed to wick moisture, and I'm here to tell you, it works! I did quite a bit of sweating, but when I got home, my outer layer was damp, but the base layer was dry! I was impressed...

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