Michael made the news

On one of our trips up to Sunday River this weekend, Michael and I encountered a channel 8 news crew filming all the people enjoying the multiple feet of new snow we had over the past week. The camera man filmed Michael strapping onto his board and taking off down the mountain, which they used at the beginning of this video http://www.wmtw.com/news/22699870/detail.html

The picture with this post was from February Vacation week, where Michael taught himself to grind a rail. He also taught me to do a land 180, a land 360, an ollie, and to ride a box. I taught myself that my snowboard likes to stay comfortably resting in the snow and not flying through the air. It keeps my head from hitting the ground...

Maple Time!!!

Well, the end of ski season is approaching... how do we know? Well, the sap is starting to run. And seeing as we live in the middle of the woods, I figured Michael and I would have some fun making maple syrup this year. I have 30 spiles, and am working on rounding up jugs to capture the sap. I did spring for 10 used buckets and covers, which I used the other day. I made my first round to the buckets last night to gather sap and poured about 2 gallons into a storage jug. The plan is to get a fire going in the stone stove out on the patio and boil the sap down out there when we're not snowboarding. Hoping to have lots of mapley goodness very soon!