Another Saturday morning has arrived. Out my window the snow has frozen into a nice white crusty mirror that is reflecting the pinks and purples of the sun rising in the deep south below Wisconsin’s mini-mountain range. I’m not sure why it is, but looking out across the barren fields that surround my house it always seems much more brutal that I’m sure it actually is. I’m quickly growing tired of winter. Sad too because we’ve hardly had a winter at that.

If you’ve not checked it out, you may like the video of Omer of Terra Santa Kayaks doing some graceful lazy surfing in Israel. There’s also this bikini thing going on, but who’d be interested in that sort of thing!?

Remember my post about the Gym? Well, just to gauge how wimpy I really am I decided to see how much weight I could actually leg-press. Drum roll please. . . I got up to 365lbs. I could get off about 10 then I was cooked. I tried it at 400 and I may as well have been pushing on the side of house. I’ll say it again, Wimp!

There are a few newer blogs out there worth visiting. Recently I’ve enjoyed checking out Alison Dyer’s blog.

Some of you were probobly at Canoecopia last year and watched as one of the owners of Rutabaga took some very public rolling lessons in the event pool. I couldn’t imagine how anyone could learn with an audience that size. He came very close. I’m sure he would’nt mind me sharing this. Jeff Weidman (pictured above) can now roll! He is the perfect example of how sticking with it and not giving up pays off.

Lastly today I want to correct a little oversight I made in my Monday Rockpool post. I forgot to add Mark Tozer to my list of Rockpool sponsored kayakers. A big oversight too since Mark is the first on the list. Where was my head!?? If you don’t know, Mark is the guy who founded and organized the UK Storm Gathering Sea Symposium. Mark is a Sea Kayak Coach and Mountain Instructor located in North Wales. You can visit his website “Edge of Adventure” Here. Mark wrote a nice piece yesterday about Rockpool co-owner Aled Williams. Certainly it reiterates why a Rockpool sponsorship is such an honor, and why owning one of their kayaks is something special.

Well, I’m going to try to get through my bit of cabin fever today and head out to the pool. Still working on that offside hand roll. Jeff’s my inspiration. Stick with it and it will come. . .

Hmmm, did I forget a lyric? Well, here’s what was going through by mind this morning;