embrace the suck

 i LOVE living in the forest.  i can sit in the warmth of my hobbit hole, strap on my dions, and head out the door into the wilderness.  it doesn't get much better than that.  thursday was the beginning of our first dump of snow.  i managed to get out real early and train a few clients, and was back home by mid-morning.  by noon it still hadn't let up, so i figured i was settled in for the day.  i threw on my snow clothes - which took twenty fucking minutes - and ventured out into palgrave ...

i could barely see the tracks richard and BazingaDog had made earlier in the day ...

after more than 90 minutes i was beat!  i had forgotten how much work it is slogging thru deep snow!

our road still hadn't been plowed friday morning so i figured i'd get my strength training done on the trails.  'the forest was my gym' ...

15 minutes in and the sun started to peak thru the clouds.  it was spectacular!

it just kept getting better ...

i did come across another set of tracks and i'm pretty sure they belonged to my buddy sam!

just as i was finishing up a good two hours i came across these three - richard, barb and BazingaDog!

so despite not really liking the white stuff, i got my ass out there and ultimately enjoyed it.

a couple other things - i managed to get my tree up ...

 

we held our annual ghetto christmas party wednesday.  after the 'twelve days of christmas' workout we sat down to a great feast!  thanks ladies - you are the BEST!  

 

and finally, can't wait to see THIS kid!  i fly out on the 21st for 5 days of redhead lovin ...

enuff said ...