Six months already....

Time seriously flies with this little guy. I swear tomorrow he's gonna ask for the keys to the truck. He turned 6 months on Saturday, so we took him to the National Western Stock Show. It was a fun time - kind of like a fair on a lot of steriods, only without the carnival.

Colorado Powder Forecast

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Colorado Powder Forecast

Looks like it might be on again (finally) this weekend.

Misc. stuffs

Been a while. Here are a few of the WD (Whitdog) from around Christmas. He got pretty sick last week from a virus called RSV. Thankfully we took him to the doc in time so that it didn't require any hospital stays. As always, he's a joy to have in our lives.

Snacks

for the trouts....

Snow sliding

Four of us strapped on our skis today for the first day of the 2009/10 winter. Got in a few laps at a popular backcountry destination west of town. Snow wasn't great. In fact, in a lot of places it was terrible and non-existent in others. Surprisingly non-windy considering the location, and the warmer weather was nice. Overall not a bad first day, and the exercise was great. Forgot to grab the cam before we left, so no pixels on the screen.

Sausage

Mandy got me a really unique and great gift for my birthday this year. Actually there were two of them: two cooking classes from a place called "Come Back to the Table." That's really a gift that keeps on giving the whole year. One of the classes was about making sausage. We hoped that I would use the class to make some elk sausage after elk season this year, but since I muffed both of the opportunities for cow elk that fell in my lap, we won't be using elk for sausage. But I digress.

The class was great. We learned how to make several different kinds of sausage: breakfast, Italian, chorizo, chicken spinach, brats, andouille, and several others. So I put the class to work not long ago and made some pork breakfast sausage. It was tons of fun, and I don't think I'll need to buy sausage from the store anytime soon.

Start with some pork shoulder

and some herbs

Trim it up and mix in the spices.

Run it through the grinder

Make a test patty and if it tastes right....

Happiest Baby?

There's a book out there about baby raising called "The Happiest Baby on the Block." I think it was written about Whit. Here's why: