Well, we have had more snow recently than we have ever seen up here. Our deck has about 7 feet on it. We had about 5 feet in front of my garage door when we got here. We won’t be able to get into our front door until spring, there is about 10 feet of snow on that walkway. We expected that the first floor windows might be blocked by snow, but not the second floor.
Sam and I went and stayed on the USS Hornet overnight again. Fun was had by all. We got to hear ghost stories. We had clean up duty after supper. We got to explore the ship as much as we wanted.
Katy had her first diving competition of the year. It was an invitational at Paly. She has been sick and hasn’t been diving for a little over a month, but she still managed to do better than she was last year. She did well, when she gets more back into the swing of things, she should be greatly improved this year.
About 10 years ago, Katy started using hotwheelsskier as her AIM name. This was because she found the black run at Alpine Meadows that all the kids love and all the adults hate. It is a narrow twisty run that the kids can do relatively easy and the adults with longer skis have a harder time with it.
Well, today everyone in the family did it for the first time. Both Sam and Margaret loved it. This was a big day for the family, they are all skiing (Margaret boards) much better. Unfortunately, the second time down, I had a little mishap and tore my calf muscle. Pictures here. So for some members of the family it was the first time down Hot Wheels Gully, for others, maybe the last.
I am pretty proud of my kids that they are so much better than me at something so that I hurt myself trying to keep up with them (and not succeeding very well).
We had Margaret’s birthday in Tahoe this year. It was ski week for us. The Wallins were up with us for her birthday.
Spent a few days with the entire Wallin family in Tahoe.
We refused to eat it. It was chunky and looked like this:
Just a few photos from after Christmas.
Another exciting Christmas at the Greer household. The kids got more than they needed (so did everyone else). The kids have been busy all day playing with all the new toys.
Tonight they gave the cub scouts guns and told them to shoot things. Ok, there was a long speech about gun safety before hand and they were nerf guns and they were shooting at plastic plates and dishes. All in all, the boys had a good time. This was the first time that the pack has done something like this, it seemed like it was a success. Oh, and Sam’s den sung a Christmas carol, led by the Jewish atheist parent, to start the meeting.