Well? Where are you all and what have you been up to?
February is the bleakest month so it seems like a great time to start planning for spring. We’ve rearranged the house and are currently redoing the kitchen so it will be more accomodating for future dopefests.
I also have some cool theme ideas (at least to me) to have some movie maddness days accompanied by food and fun and festing.
So submit your ideas for fests or your willingness to attend or your news that you want to share or tell me I’m a loser and you wouldn’t fest with me if your life depended on it
Yesterday was very nice here in Metrowest Boston. I took my giant Samoyed, Bear, for a 6 mile walk. My wife and two-year old daughter just gotten back from a 10 day trip to the Virgin Islands. I couldn’t go because I just started a consulting job at the TJX headquarters a month ago. I am really ready for it to warm up. Tthe temperature should be trending upwards right now.
Hm, central eastern connecticut here, slush and mud, and a $300 towing bill for the truck that we cant really afford, so we have to suck it up until AAA sends us a reimbursement check=\ So much for getting more groceries, makes me glad that I am into stockpiling food.
I dig winter. Time for the crampons, the plastic boots, and the big down bag! You haven’t lived until you’ve stood atop Mt. Jefferson, beneath crystal-clear blue winter skies, in a gale-force wind, and not a soul but your buddies in sight.
Except this week it’s been shirtsleeves and no hats. Lots of folks have been hitting the Presies this week in amazing conditions, two different groups that I know of did one day Traverses! I was skinning up Cardigan in a t-shirt, windpants, and baseball cap, practically spring conditions in the backcountry.
Winter sounds better than summer then. MrValley and I hiked up Jefferson on a nice day a few years ago. When we got there we found not peace and tranquility, but a group of people smoking and drinking wine coolers – that they had carried up in a big Coleman cooler! :smack:
Hey, Telemark, you know anything about pulks? I’d sure love to get out more on skis, but I have a 1-year-old. Eutychus, I’ve often wondered: where does Rhode Island find room for all the plowed up banks of snow? Massachusetts or Connecticut?
Oh, and tanookie, you know where I am. Still cleaning up the mess after your kids came over. (I kid, I kid…they are sweethearts.)
I’m living in an igloo now so it’s not as easy getting a good internet connection. It’s an 11-room Victorian-style and the dogs (one’s a Keeshond named Bear, Shagnasty) seem to enjoy their custom-built annex. We should be moving back to our summer quarters around June, when all of this melts…
I’m up for a dopefest. I’ve got a little too much on my plate to participate much in the planning and organizing, but would love to see/meet folks and will pitch in as much as I can.
Sorry it took me so long to get back to my own thread. I had a very last minute change in travel plans because of the blizzard that never came. You gotta love a place where the forecast goes from “4-6 inches” to “12-18 inches” to “all rain event” in 12 hours.
I am 95% recovered from the broken shoulder that left me sitting on the couch through Christmas. The kids are filled with cabin fever and my daughter keeps asking for her swimming pool and her swing set.
I am willing to open my home to festing. People with an aversion to children or animals may want to suggest a different venue as my house is full of bright plastic toys and pet fur.
I am also wondering about day trip activities like a day at the Aquarium/Zoo/Museum/Beach or whatnot…
You ain’t kiddin’, Eutychus ! It could be worse. It could be Maine, Vermont or New Hampshire, but at least they have skiing, if that’s your thing. We have no excuse to leave the house.
Well, I want to go skiing, but I’ve been busy – new job. New editor at my non-paying job. Conference in DC. Family business. And I’ve been sick for a week and a half.
I’m hoping that I can get out to the slopes for an evening or a day soon. And we want to hold another Bad Film Festival – haven’t had one of those in a while. This year, for the first time, on DVD.
Been busy, busy, busy. Work has picked up in the last six months, and I have taken two evening courses since September. Also the Little Lagomorph doesn’t take naps like he used to so my waking hours (when I am home) are spent more with him and less here. We are also pretty heavily involved with church and school activities.
Next week we are going to spend a week with two other families at Sugarloaf Ski Area in Maine…I am hoping they get another 2 feet of snow the day we arrive! Whoooopeeee!
I’m still here too, loving the road salt stains on all my black slacks. My car is in dire need of a washing. I haven’t found this winter to be very cold. I know it has been but it just doesn’t feel it this year.
I’m bored at work and having to take a break from school (possibility of surgery will cut into my next class).
I’m also wishing someone would give me $50,000 so I can afford to buy this cute house in Sutton. The house is much more than that but that’s just what we can’t really afford. We’re still trying to get the condo packed up and fixed up so we can show it. Not easy when you have bad back. And, unless some mysterious benefactor shows up, we’re also trying to find a cheap house to buy - so Rhode Island is out.
Unfortunatly, I doubt I can make it to a dopefest but I can overnight some Rice Krispie treats to the host!
This weekend the skiing was epic. Lots of fresh powdah up in ski country, we were in 28" of new snow at Jay Peak in the woods. The best snow was just out of bounds. Looks like a nice weekend coming up for the backcountry again.
