My Kindle was sadly lacking a cover until today. I’d looked at the ones available on Amazon, but wasn’t very inspired. Then I thought I’d have a look at Etsy. There was a huge range of handmade covers there, but I ended up with this cute little owls cover from Lina’s Stitch:
My screensaver owl is very happy in his new home.
Just because I hadn’t done it yet, and it was going to be a nice day, yesterday I skinned up the ski out at Sunshine Village with Finn in the Chariot. Had a hot chocolate in the sun in the Village (I don’t recommend the Java Lift hot chocolates unless you’re only after an expensive sugar fix). It was gorgeous up there, and there’s still so! much! snow! Then skied back down again.
Skiing back down again was an exercise in snow-ploughing. Never before has one girl snow-ploughed so hard for so long. When we’re back country it’s usually not too much of an issue, with less people and lots of snow. And because the ski out is a road in Summer, it’s just slightly off-camber most of the way down. I’d never really noticed before, but with the Chariot behind me, wanting to dive off to the left all the time, it was all of a sudden very obvious.
And then there was an excursion to Vermillion Lakes to look at the Canada Geese. They didn’t eat us. This time.
Seeing a giant and vicious house-eating machine entirely devour a house. It seemed very angry and I was a little worried it would come after the house I was in if it saw me watching it.
After snowing all day when the triathlon was on, Canmore was looking like the inside of an unshaken snow-dome. Still totally unsuitable for mountain-biking, but at least it was pretty.
And so we went for a wander around town, and everyone we met seemed to be in an inexplicably good mood. I guess they don’t want to ride their bikes.
Despite all rumours to the contrary, it’s supposed to be Spring by now. No-one has told the weather yet. They’re worried it will start hitting us with -10oC days to go with the snow.
Anyway, somehow I ended up doing a Winter Triathlon. Sensibly, it involved no swimming. Instead there was a ski leg, which I ended up doing. As a result, there are no photos of that part, so instead I bring to you photos of people trying to bike in 15cm of fresh snow (heh heh), and running through 15cm of fresh snow (heh heh heh).
