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Crème Brûlée.

Are you working at that Warbird restoration place in Reading?

Got a new toy. Still working on laying down a smooth layer of wax.

Rollers seemed to be on the left side only.

You fell into my trap. 9:00 I found myself at Blue. Just did a couple of runs before bailing out to Frost.

Got there late, today, about 11. Got lost driving to the slopes. 41° when I started and 44 when I left, overcast but with a nice wind blowing down the hill. Packed powder, with just a touch of grabbiness up top just before I left. About two dozen people on one Park and DeMattes. It was nice that everyone was a pretty good skier. Able to build my skillz by doing some drills on the slope and practice some YouTube video carving techniques. Got about 15 runs in. Since both blue and Frost only have slow lifts, I prefer the shorter lift with the shorter run at this point in the season. Plus, the west chair of the blue twin lift is definitely slower than the east chair or the frost chairs. Electronic problem resolved with the new phone, so nice tunes all day. About to head down to the basement to touch up the edges and redo the wax.

Monday conditions were nice. Got there about 10 and left 12:30. 40 degrees warming up to 45. Sunny, loose granular, never got at all slushy, no skid marks. DeMattes was in very good shape as was One Park. No lift lines except for a couple of times the lift stopped. A lot of boarders today. The close lot never got full (although the slope side u is blocked off). Not as challenging as Midway and Lower Main Street, but my max speed at Blue last week was 30 mph, and at Frost today was 45, and conditions held up well, so there is that. Hate having to skid to keep my speed down. Knees are holding up well, some electronic problems with the new phone though, lack of an audio port is a pain.

They took all the lockers out, and closed off the inside valet drop off area. Monday, everything west of the cafeteria was dark. The bar up top was open without a vax card.

There is a sign saying no personal items to be left in lodge. Don’t know if they are going to enforce it.

Got to Jack Frost about 10 o’clock and skied until about noon. Was about 26° when I got there, no wind with hazy sunshine that clouded over during the morning. Did a couple of runs on Jane’s Lane, then spent the rest of the day on one park. Several jumps were set up on the top third but the bottom 2/3 were clear. Snow is in good shape, pretty grippy, and I probably skied too fast for the first day out but it felt pretty good. VAX card required to enter the building, and the only entrance open was the slopeside one. Blowing snow on Demattes, could be a rough week next week for the snow coverage. Light crowd, but more were coming in for the afternoon. Try to hit Blue tomorrow to add to the Boomers there.

Towing the Jeep is enough.

Like your outfit too, but as you get older, you need more comfort.

Just got back from our fall trip out west, visiting New Mexico. Trip didn’t start out too well, with a large branch falling on our windshield coming out of a state park in Missouri. But other than that, it went pretty well. Visited the area around Taos, then west towards Los Alamos and the state parks and BLM land in that area. Then south to the lava fields south of Grant along with Inscription rock. Then further south to Silver city and the Gila National Monument area.

Fever and runny noses.

My niece took her family to Walt Disney World 2 weeks ago and they all have Covid now. Fortunately they are vaxed and only having mild symptoms so far.

The entire natural dietary supplement industry is unregulated by the FDA, unless a supplement is obviously killing people like ephedra does.

My son and daughter-in-law just left to go back to Sacramento after visiting for 2 weeks. She constantly got ‘all call’ texts from her hospital asking any available nurse to schedule additional shifts. They are starting to get a bunch of pediatric Covid patients.

Ouch, might be hard to replace until they get caught up on chips.

Ross and Eldridge twps put in prohibitions on short term rentals for residential zoning areas. Hope they can enforce it.

Sacramento Railway museum.

What bothered me most about flying is the lack of control you have, especially once you get on the plane. Do what you are told and smile while doing it.

Gaack. Might need KSL’s lodging experience to build their hotel

The chicken pox virus you got as a kid can give you shingles when you get older and your immune system slows down. My uncle had it before vaccines were available. Pretty miserable until it cleared up.

If we ever do hit 70 with all the vaccine reluctance out there. Was at the Lowe’s in Bartonsville, and there was a noticeable lessening of mask compliance. The old guy at the pool store had a bad case and retired, his son took over. Our vet closed indefinitely due to a ‘severe covid outbreak.’ They had always adhered to strict procedures. Not over yet.