What month is it?!

Who can believe this weather?! Snow for the last two days?! Isn't it June? Gotta love Summit County. We got home from work yesterday finding the power was out in the cabin. It was out for most of the evening. I was excited to light candles and not to have the Internet or TV working for once. We started a fire, roasted hot dogs and heated up some chili on top of the stove. It works just as fast as a regular stove! We taught Tom how to play Cities and Knights of Catan, which took up most of the early evening. We just got into it when the power came back on. Luckily the Bevan and Tom wanted to keep playing. That game is addictive! As a kid, it was always thrilling to have the power out, like being pioneers or something, but now, I still get that excitement, but am always glad when the lights come on again. Oh, by the way, that picture is the truck that I usually drive at work. I guess we're making up for the spring we never had.

Clumsy Wildlife!

Have you ever wondered if animals are just plain clumsy when no one is watching? Tom said that he saw a deer running when it suddenly tripped, tumbled a little, got up and kept running. My boss and I were driving around Deer Crest the other day, visiting a job site. If anybody doesn't know about Deer Crest... it's an engineering miracle. There are so many retaining walls and concrete buttresses holding up these plots of land covered with McMansions and private ski runs. The ski runs aren't that exciting, except for the thrill of knowing your not supposed to be on them. Anyway, there was a small moose trying to get up a steep embankment that had been cut away with construction of the road. It kept falling and falling, but it would keep getting up and trying to get over the embankment. All these people, mostly construction workers (they're the only permanent residence you actually SEE in Deer Crest), stopped to watch this funny site. After a while the moose gave up and just went around the embankment. Since it was a "teenage moose" and thought it knew everything, it really wanted to get up over this cliff, but fearing the teasing from his friends, decided to step down gracefully. Just another example of the miracle and beauty of nature.