Young Americans

The past few days have been a whirlwind. Then again, you could say that about the entire trip. In the end, we finally got on a ski-doo (and crashed it), chopped wood, went ice fishing, found ice caves, did good work and made amazing friends along the way. It seems fitting that instead of showing you these things, I leave you with Dave and I embraced and hysterically laughing. I guess I'm feeling a little nostalgic. So long, sub-arctic! 

Kirk's eggs of joy

The tundra may be lacking a lot of things,
but blood oranges aren't one of them

Who's You?

Out for a smoke

Us runners, we got to stick together.

I woke up at 5:30am and decided I'd run while my laundry was in the machine... there was too much fresh snow to run (so I did yoga) but I thought I'd show the world this ... overwhelmingly awesome technology. Small metal spikes that strap onto your shoes so you don't slip. 

Bow when you go in, bow when you go out.

Dave found this for me

Throwback to the one in Staten

Sunrise at the river today

If you saw my shopping cart at the CO-OP, you'd think we were vegetarian.

Obviously I need this to complete my GI Joe/Ninja persona.

Smoke on the Water

If you look back at my earlier posts you'll see just a few weeks ago the river was totally frozen. Now about half of the side between the shore and the island isn't frozen, it was steaming at sunset this evening. I walked almost all the way out to the island (the closer trees) 2 or 3 weeks ago...