The Adventures of T&A

We spent the morning uploading our photos into the new website location. Community Server has a few bugs, but it’s the best one Andrew found for us to use.

Our website is finally up!! WHOOPEE!! It has taken so long and we’ve had so many problems with different things…. I’m so glad it’s finally done! Now all we have to do is update a journal log or photo album and post it. We turned off the computers and jumped in the hot tub in time to watch the full moon rise over the snow capped mountains.

About 5 degrees (F) this morning.  We saw a coyote walking on the golf trail outside this morning.  It’s too cold to snowshoe this morning, so we decide to take a day off.  We went into the Chef’s Corner at the Cordillera Market for some high speed Wi-Fi and a cup of tea.  We got a lot accomplished on the website today.  Our connection is slow at the house and with both of us trying to upload and modify online, it was taking a long time.

We went into Edwards and, on a whim, stopped at the Thrift Store.  We finally found a store in Edwards we can afford!  Andrew was drooling over a wall of ski boots for $25.00 a pair.  I looked into some warmer hats for both of us.   We were there about an hour before closing, so we had to leave, but we’ll be back.  They had some great deals on “pre-loved” winter snow gear, something we don’t have much of!

We’ve been working on this website for so long… I hope we can get it up and running tomorrow.  Andrew got my first video uploaded yesterday and had his mom preview it.  He said she was laughing hysterically on the phone when she saw it.  I take that as a good sign.

We got out for an early snowshoe hike on Camino del Norte again.  It was much easier because we packed the trail yesterday and it was quicker because we weren’t shooting any videos.  It looked like snow was coming our way, but we didn’t get any.  It was much colder than it’s been the last several days.

We went into the city of Edwards for some groceries and run some errands.  The grocery store at Edwards was shocking! The selection was limited and the prices were outrageous!  We ended up paying over $8.00 for two cantaloupes (I didn’t realize they were charging by the pound!).  On a better note, we went by Ptarmigan Sports again and I traded my snowshoes for longer ones.  It seems you need longer snowshoes for more “float” on softer snow.  It got really cold, low expected between 0 and -10 degrees (F) tonight.

We took a linger snowshoe hike along a trail called Camino del Norte (North Trail) and took some videos and photos along the way to play with.  When we got back, I spent most of the afternoon and evening putting them into a video I called “Snow Fun with T & A”.  I think it looks pretty cool, especially for half a day’s work and learning the program at the same time.  We walked up to the local pub, the Grouse on the Green, to get out for a minute and have a beer.  But the Grouse was closed, so we came back to the house and had a beer (or two).

We took a short walk on the golf trail this morning.  We had to be back for a maintenance man checking on a few things at the house.  We were on the computers again all afternoon.  I’m learning how to edit videos we’ve taken with our camera with Adobe Premiere Elements.

We tried out our snowshoes this morning.  We got the bindings on without any trouble and within the first few minutes I was in love!  We’ve got to get some of these!!  We learned a few things very quickly: groomed trails, like the golf cart trail out the back door, is easiest; packed trails that have been walked before are a little more challenging, but still fun; and fresh powder is the hardest to walk in.  Another thing I learned quickly… you don’t back up in snow shoes!  I tried to take a picture of Andrew, was too close, so I tried to back up and fell flat on my butt.  We tried to break trail through fresh powder and we were sinking over our knees with every step.  We backtracked and took the path instead.  We came inside, rested and started working on the website again.  It seems we keep running into problems…