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Paul and I snuck in a Valentines run up Agua Caliente trail before dark while the kids were in gymnastics. Looking forward to longer days so we can maybe do this some more!

Gymnastics season.

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Perfect winter Hueco weather and yet no new hard sends were had. Three Saturdays ago I felt amazing on Serious Legends. Two Saturdays ago I felt like crap on it. Last Saturday we couldn’t be at Hueco because the boys had a gymnastics meet, which was a good thing because I had to work like a dog, but then a bad thing because after working like a dog I walked over to the woody and sent all 4 (FOUR!) of my woody projects!!!! Plus a repeat project for good measure. Perhaps best woody session ever. Now, sending on plastic is great and all, but sending on plastic when I should be at Hueco sending the real deal is bad. Very bad. Very very bad. Especially after going back to Serious Legends THIS weekend and feeling like crap on it again. 😤

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Not bitter as in “bitter cold”, which it was this weekend indeed (high 40’s and windy at Hueco!). Bitter as in I’m bitter that I felt like crap this weekend! After last weekend’s amazing big link I had on Serious Legends into the crux, I thought for sure this weekend would be some sending attempts. Nope. Not at all. Even after going to bed early, not drinking too much wine, and resting all week! Grrrrr. Bitter.

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Never gets old.

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For many years now our eastern visits have been mild and without snow over the holidays, the opposite of what it used to be when I was a kid. Last year when we didn’t travel, the northeast was buried in snow. Feets of it! And now this year the forecast was of course looking grim as usual. You can imagine how ecstatic we were then when getting this unexpected message from my mom the day we were scheduled to arrive: SNOW! To our delight flurries came down hard the last 45 minutes of the drive and our crummy bald-tired rental car barely spun it’s way up the driveway. We arrived around 9pm, kids kissed grandma and Aunt Katie hello, grabbed a quick bite of homemade pizza and then ran straight outside and played in the white stuff until half past past midnight. All the next day, more of the same! Wonderfully perfect snowman and sledding snow!

And then then the day after that – it was gone.

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