Nordic skiing, red tutu, bread, and coyote

More cross country skiing. Slowly getting the hang of it. We are doing classic nordic skiing which is using tracks or (hasn't happened yet) virgin powder snow to make our own trails. Fun.

using free trails only at this point

the aforementioned tracks

Hey, the paparazzi are  here

Man on a bike with red tutu. Very normal sighting in CB. But what for? And he was not smiling... Speaking of costumes, we hope to get to CB to see the annual Alley Loop Nordic races next weekend. Many races down the main street and surrounding alley ways in crazy costumes. Any excuse to dress strangely is a Crested Butte mantra.

Coyote in front of us on our way back to the house. Yup - airborne! The warmer weather seems to have brought out more animals. We can't believe it - today our thermometer says 42! Mark's had to fire up the snow blower to get the heavy wet snow off the deck that's sliding off the roof.

More cinnamon cranberry walnut bread baked this morning. So easy and yummy.

As usual, forgot to list books read. Trick of the Light by Louise Penny - great Canadian mystery writer, another in her series, and Nothing Daunted by Dorothy Wickenden, a fascinating story of her grandmother and best friend leaving New York as debutantes to come to the Colorado wilderness to become teachers in the early 1900's in the far northern region of CO, not in our area, but conditions were likely similar, wild being the key word.
My genetics class is hard and I'm in good company, if you go by the discussion boards .Lots of complaining and theorizing. Learning a ton, will see how I hold up over the next few weeks. Worked way too hard on this weeks problem sets, after aceing last weeks, but thinking less than stellar this week. (Monday spits out results, we'll see) And, ha, ha, my online philosophy class starts Monday also. Can't wait to see what kind of homework that entails...

Busy couple of weeks coming up. Mark has a business trip to St.Louis next week, and if the weather holds, I'm headed over to CO Springs to visit Mom, and we have company coming in a week - Heather, Jay, and their friends for a winter fun week. Can't wait to see them!