Between the Holidays!

We had a very restful Thanksgiving holiday -- a ski mid-day, pretty cold but bearable, on the Campbell Creek Trail, not tracked but we diagnol skied for an hour or so.  We were downstairs for h'or d'oeuvres at 4, then dinner at 6 and lingered over wine then coffee and a game of dominos before pumpkin pie.  I'll have to insert a picture of the turkey when I get it from Lance, as he really takes care in carving the turkey - it's worthy of a picture!  And we bundled up, pretty cold by evening, and walked up to the Town Square to take our December picture for our annual calendar.  Here it is - preview:

I thought that we would ski all weekend, but not only was it minimal snow - it was probably a high of 5 degrees on Friday, Saturday & Sunday!  Friday we went to a movie - The Dallas Buyers Club - it was a good movie and one Brian wanted to see.  Then Saturday after yoga and a long, quiet afternoon of working on photo albums of all things, we bundled up and walked up to Cyrano's a community theatre and saw Madeline L'Engle's "A Wrinkle in Time."  Pretty interesting!  REALLY quiet weekend - tried some new recipes (and they were really good!), Christmas cards, a bigtime trip to Costco -- who wouldn't want in on THAT?!

Since then, what are the highlights?  I joined a gym - finally - it's gotten to me when it's too cold to go and we don't end up getting regular exercise - so I've found this week, working out 3 mornings, I have more energy, my brain works better, and I ended the week in a WAAYY better place than usual!  Yay for Anchorage Athletic Club!!

Brian has been working on a greenhouse here in Alaska for my hairdresser, and that's been an interesting project - a big greenhouse - 10 x 12 and 10 ft. high.

He's always got unusual jobs - the last one was making a door for a German shepherd to be able to get in and out of the house but also stay separate from the ferrets - now THAT's a specialty!  Or he's replacing toilets or putting in a new outlet for a damaged one that almost started a house fire or putting in floors or figuring out how to fix something someone tried to do for themselves that didn't quite work -- he's quite the creative problem solver!

We're hoping for snow but the last two days have been freezing drizzle off and on instead . . . Sunday we may get snow, and all that we need is a little bit to be skiing again!  Happy holiday preparation to everyone in the meantime!