A week of being with a cold!

Yuck!  Back from the east coast, first Brian got a cold, then Judy.  Not a little cold - a big, drippy, sneezy, total fatigue, need a nap, can't ski cold.  Brian's back skiing now, but not Judy yet.  Fur Rondy starts tomorrow, and we'll be volunteering at the dog races. www.furrondy.net/ Trying to brace ourselves with Robutussin, Zicam, EmergenC, and chicken soup.  Here's the chicken soup and kale chips (our new attempt to eat kale - they

 ARE pretty good, just as we heard).  

Picked up our vegetable box from Full Circle Farms http://www.fullcircle.com/
tonight and dried the kale in the oven at 350 degrees on cookie sheets for about 10 minutes with a little olive oil and salt after clipping off the stems with scissors.

We got a little more snow today, and it's been a comfortable 25-30 degrees all week.  Judy stayed home from work yesterday, finally convinced by the people she worked with that they REALLY didn't appreciate her bringing her cold to work.  By 4:00 she was stir crazy and went out for a walk - wasn't sure how far she could walk - REALLY sick with this cold, but then she remembered the Mayan hot chocolate at the Modern Chocolate Dweller's Lounge and was pretty sure she could make it THAT far!
http://www.moderndwellers.com/

So on to the dog races tomorrow for Brian anyway - Judy's working, then both will volunteer Saturday and Sunday!  Brian got really excited watching them last year -- our jobs last year were to paint colored "spots" on the dogs' legs before they started so it was clear only those dogs could race for the multiple days - no substituting "fresh" dogs!  We continue to see moose all over the place and you probably saw the moose that was inside the hospital -- just across the street from the university -- it wandered in through the automatic doors!

Fireworks on Saturday night for Fur Rondy!  Best fireworks ever!  We'll try for pictures!