lolcats

It escapes me when, but G and I discovered the Web site "lolcats" (see link to the right). For those of you not familiar with it, people make up captions in broken English for pictures of cats and other animals. There are running gags about cats in search of cheeseburgers, monorail cats, the Ceiling Cat, a walrus with a missing bucket and smart-aleck sharks, just to name a few. G and I find them highly amusing and check the site every couple of days; the humor is lost on Dan, who does not find strange syntax and spelling funny. We haven't posted to the site yet, but G has come up with a few that she'd like to. A sampling:

Laptop

Wish I'd had one to ease the agita of homework ...

Never Too Late

My dad has always been big on reunions and keeping up with people. The Internet has allowed him to get in touch with friends he's lost touch with, even if it has been 30 or 40 years. He's told me several times that "it's never too late." I was fortunate this week when Cindy, a high school friend whose wedding I was in, found me, serendipitously aided by someone we both didn't connect each other with (see Don Version 2.0 at right). Now I know Dad is absolutely right. It's only too late if you miss your chance.

"Swim" Party

G's swim team had a sledding party this afternoon. Almost too many daredevil stunts for my heart to handle, but everyone had a great time and no one ended up in the ER.

Sometimes the downhill trip was a success ...


... and sometimes it wasn't!

D takes a group down

D & G race a swim mom down the hill

Snow Train

Guess who organized this ...

Eclipse

Last night at 7:30 p.m. it was a beautiful, clear night for viewing the total lunar eclipse. It was also minus 3 degrees! Luckily for us, the moon came up directly east of our picture window, so we had front row seats without having to go outside and freeze our noogies off.

G uses binoculars to watch the lunar eclipse from her Papasan

Cupid's Wish

Snowshoeing

The stars finally aligned ... G is not sick, she doesn't have a ton of homework, it's sunny and in the 20s, there's lots of snow on the ground ... so we went snowshoeing after school. We're supposed to get a few more inches of snow tomorrow, so we're hoping Dan can get out with us this weekend.

G & Maike blaze a trail

Maike waits for me

Maike's favorite pastime

Less Than Zero

Yesterday started another patch of subzero weather. It should break tomorrow afternoon, when the forecast calls for it to warm up enough to dump another 3 to 6 inches of snow on us.

Dan & Maike brave double digit negative temps and blowing snow to get the Sunday paper

More of Same

It snowed for more than 24 hours here, and finally stopped about an hour or so ago. No idea what the total accumulation was ... deep and drifting. There was no school today, but G has been sick *again* so it didn't really matter. Spring cannot come fast enough at this point.

Maike loves snow. She and I plodded around in it for a while this afternoon