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December 2014

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Cabin Fever

Our second Arctic cold snap of the season  has arrived, with the high temperatures today only reaching -7 degrees and temperatures overnight heading towards -20 or colder.  The air is so frosty that it even hurts to breathe deeply, it seems to scorch your throat and lungs as you breathe…

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Driving home in the driving snow

Wow, we had a rather nerve-wracking drive home from a great day of skiing the other night.  We went over to Winter Park to go skiing the other day, and the snow came in during the mid afternoon.  It normally takes us around 1 1/2 hours to make the drive…

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Put the one foot in front of the other

With all the focus on skiing in Colorado during the winter, it’s easy to forget there are other ways to have fun in the snow during winter.  After getting ten inches of new snow at our home in Nederland in the last 24 hours, we wanted to stay closer to…

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Colorado Christmas

This time of year, you hear a lot of Christmas music playing on the local radio stations, and at times, it can get a little trying on the nerves. But since we’ve been living here in Colorado, there is one I hear periodically, I had never heard before.  The Nitty…

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