Ok, there's a story behind the title of this blog post.  Every Monday night, I go to spinning class at my gym.  My spinning instructor i...

In early January, my youngest brother Mark came out to Oregon to ski!  My brother Dale had convinced him that he really needed to experience...

Christmas '09 was a different kind of a Christmas than in years past.  Cody, who is working in Montana, could not come home for Christma...

I'd been itching to get up on the mountain since mid-November, when the snow started falling.  After a couple of failed weekend attempts...

We had a quiet relaxing Thanksgiving weekend at our home.  Denise came home from college on Wednesday night accompanied by her new pets --- ...

In early November, I made a quick weekend trip to Missoula to visit Cody. Cody had left some things at our house from this summer that he n...