Yes, this is hard to believe... ;-)

We both got an A in Spanish for medical professionals at the SFCC. We can't speak spanish but I guess our learning curve has forcibly been very steep... we gained quite a bit of vocabulary and some grammar... If you start from 0, there's a long way to go!!!

I'm planning to keep it up with Rosetta Stone next semester.... wait and see!

Braving the cold and the snow....

I was starting to get cabin fever.... we hadn't been out hiking for almost a month; freezing temperatures, a good amount of snow, Doug's finals and lots of other things to do... But today was the day: Temperatures cautiously climbed to around freezing, I had the day off and Doug could take a break from the outside home improvement project!!
My head cleared, my legs and longs were grateful for the exercise and my energy level has risen by at least 50%!

The parking lot, blocked by a wall of snow, cleared off the road...



Crossing the river... what is underneath this snow; a steady tree trunk or traitorous ice?



That's what I want INSIDE the house for X-mas, snow and all....



I can see you!?!?

Sinterklaas

Somehow Sinterklaas and his "zwarte pieten" -black Peters- made it over the Atlantic ocean, through the Midwest, all the way to the Rockies in Santa Fe! I was very relieved to see he hadn't forgotten his Belgian souls on December 6th!

He brought his usual collection of mandarin oranges, chocolates, candy, cookies and marzipan.... MMMmmm...

BBBBBrrrrrrrrrr............

I am never moving to Alaska or Montana, way too cold!!!

It's 3 degrees (-16C) out this morning..... Pretty sure I won't be riding my bike to work today....

View of the front window / balcony:

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