Bedrock & Paradox

What a difference 2000′ makes. Lolo Pass.  Plenty of fresh fluff for kicking and gliding and swacking around.  A little thin for real turns just yet, the little tree skiing I did was a bit exciting due to brush and logs.  Started as an Extra Blue day, became a Violet day.   Ski season has…

Check it.  Gotta finish this damn thing and go skiing early!

The end is near for MSW semester # 1; final pages on a case study essay this evening, edit the shit out of it over the next few days, and be done with it all.  I’m not back up to full functioning on paper writing, but I’m getting there.   I did sneak in a…

“The Path of Apprenticeship: The Zen of Yellowstone” Mark Jenkins; Outside Jan 2003 I glide through the forest. Sinking into each turn, the powder rolls up my thighs. My skis carve crescents through the open firs, neither fast nor slow but with ease, like a looping stroke of calligraphy. This is my third ski tour in…

..in the Rattlesnake this afternoon. Plans to go further afield after work this morning were delayed by a car that would not start. Fortunately, this was solved in a little over an hour by purchasing a new battery. The truck has spunk it hasn’t had in months! So I continued my exploration of the ridges…

..to go, and things are where they should be. Not much else to say, other than to comment on the classic case of life, in such situations especially: the more you get done, the more you’ll get done.  It cross-pollinates from one thing to the other.   Though it was nice to sneak off with…

I hate leftovers, bland, gullatinous, icky.  But maybe I’ve been going it all wrong until now. Yam, Spinach and Romano Gnocchi with a Cranberry-Japaleno Chutney Take mashed potato-entities and add a bit of salt, then flour until mixing produces something no longer sticky.  If you have very dry mashers adding an egg might be advisable.…

Thursday was a good day. We woke up in the back of the truck in a rest area near Bozeman, and needed breakfast.  Where to find food on Thanksgiving morning?  IHOP, of course.  Then it was on to Yellowstone, where we found little snow, but a perfect day.  Clear, bright, blue, shockingly still. The above…

M and I are off the Yellowstone this evening, picnic dinner for skiing tomorrow in tow.  Mashed potatoes, mashed yams, duck, cranberry sauce, cookies, pumpkin seeds, etc.   M stole the duck photos, but tried Youtube rather than Vimeo, and ran out of time before she had to go to work.  So I win: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2357638&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=c9ff23&fullscreen=1…

To maintain my newfound title, I present my recipe from yesterday: Inyoface Vegetarian Chili -chop and saute in olive oil 1 whole habenero and 2 mid-size white onions, add as much garlic as you like (lots) -add big can of chopped tomatoes (in water), 1 can pinto beans, 1 can black beans (no draining) -add…