Monday, February 21, 2011

Pigeon Poop


Pigeons hold a grudge. We had a pair of pigeons living above our entryway. They pooped everywhere and were such messy birds. So Papa got rid of them. He didn't kill them. He just took a ladder and blocked off access to their nest. When he was up there he noticed an egg so he shook it and tossed it into the field. Not nice....I know. Well the pigeons are totally getting us back. They no longer live in our entryway. They no longer live in the back of our house either. We had to pay someone lots of money to put up these sharp tacks on the rooftop in the back so they don't land there either. They don't live anywhere around our house anymore but EVERY SINGLE DAY they come and poop right on our front door step. No freakin joke. Isn't that SO weird. It isn't even easy to do this. Because the ledge just above our door is so narrow. Like they are SO mad at us and are trying to get back at us? We have to clean up the poop every week. How do you even start to apologize for killing their unborn baby pigeon?


Sunday, February 13, 2011

Family Weekend

The weather was perfect this weekend. Not too cold and bright & sunny. Halmoni went snowshoeing for the first time in her life at 70 years old! How exciting is that? James and I had gone on Saturday and we found this beautiful trail with a creek on one side. You could smell the alpine trees in the fresh air, see the sun shining through the tall trees and get tons of exercise. We both loved it. So James asked Halmoni to go with him on Sunday morning. And she loved it too. There is a steep climb down into the forest (and then the steep climb up afterwards!) but Halmoni did great.

Only falling in deep powdery snow once. haha


And since we have a great babysitter with us (aka Halmoni) I got to ski with my girls on Sunday for the first time!!! It was such a great day. This is a picture of the girls I took while the three of us were on the chairlift.
I can't believe what good skiers the girls are. Like super duper good skiers. So proud of them. They had absolutely no problems mounting and then dismounting the chairlifts. And they were such 'in control' skiers - ALL of the TIME!!
It was so much fun skiing as a family. We missed Sophia but in a few years time she will be joining us too.
It was a great family weekend.