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Archive for January, 2005

Did I tell you that??

Friday, January 28th, 2005

Blogs are a great reminder that we love to talk. Well, that’s not quite right. Many of us love to write or type but are fairly quiet in the “real” world. So with all this talking going I get thinking about the dangers of opening my mouth at all. Each day when I sit down [...]

Sensual Kayaking

Saturday, January 22nd, 2005

Tonight as I write this I am glad to be sitting here in a warm little house. Last night’s snowstorm just buried us in a blanket of white.
Our small cinder block home is anchored in the middle of a large farm field. From here you can never tell how much snow actually fell as the [...]

Kayak Sledding

Monday, January 10th, 2005

Sunday morning before the utterly dismal Packer game we spent a couple hours kayak sledding at Devil’s Lake State Park. Besides being a great beginner kayak the discontinued Current Designs Breeze makes a great toboggan. You just have to remember to reverse your edging as you careen down the hill and be aggressive [...]

Failure is everything . . . . So I guess I’ll take another class!

Wednesday, January 5th, 2005

My boat still needs to go back down to the shop. In anticipation of taking back to Madison I left it on the car only to find out we are going to get hit by a big snow storm. So off went the boat and I will just have to reload it on the truck [...]

New Year’s Day Paddle

Saturday, January 1st, 2005

Ok. . . . So. . .
Prologue. . .
Christmas Eve we had a family emergency and spent the night on a long drive and then in an ER late into the night. After another long drive back home we did a rush Christmas for the sake of our young son and then we were off [...]