Winter Wonderland

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Smiliesafari wrote:Lynne, I couldn't agree with you more. I did some ballooning in Breckenridge Colorado in the winter. The fresh snow and mountains made for the most awesome beauty in the thirty years of my flying. It's just breathtaking. \:D/

Don't you dare bring that balloon to your Mother's place, or anywhere within 250 miles of me, without contacting me so i can take a ride in it. You want to see some snow capped mountains, I'm looking at some beauties standing proud right behind Reaper, Stephanie, Phrisk, Bikehauler and Kidhauler, and Timelessbeing, (I know they are out there somewhere between me and those mountains :-k ) about 60 miles away.

Its clear out today, so i can see the snow capped Coastal Range from my house.
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It's funny you mentioned the coastal mountains Tom, 'cause for the first time in quite some time I was able to see the Olympic Mountain Range in nothern Washington State yesterday, and much to my surprize there was very little snow in "them thar hills". It stuck me as kinda weird what with the weather we've had lately.
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"T"... \:D/ We'll definetly get together next time I'm up that way.
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Here are more.

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Then I figured I might as well smoke up some chicken!

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Thanks, now I want some smokes chicken.
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An old photo of my VW Bus in the snow:
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Man that looked good,chicken didn't look bad either,lol :cheers:
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Man that chicken looooooks gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.

Deano that roof needs shoveling and that trim needs painting CHOP CHOP your slackin :muhaha:
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The roof doesn't have much on it really...only about 18" in the middle. I have shoveled over 3' of wet heavy crap before so it'll be ok. I did shovel the porch roof though because that one will leak water if I leave.

Lynne is the paint person...yell at her.

The chicken was AWESOME! :muhaha:
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no more painting of the house................. been there done that once...................... and Dean said next time we would put siding on it so I guess it will have to wait for siding.
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Loved the chicken pic`s....!

Don`t care for that wet white stuff though....
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Chicken looks great but the snow makes all the pics look kind of washed out,,know what I mean ? :muhaha: :yawinkle:
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here are some pictures from saturday when i went boarding at mount bohemia. for those of you who don't know about this 900ft drop (big for mid west) all powder no grooming, natural snow, lots of glades, mid west's only trip black diamonds. There was lots of snow and it was awesome!
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So that is where all the snow went! okay and chickens!!!! hah ha way to go to sneak that photo in. I guess you have to Snowball the snow off the roof of your house right Dean? Here we had a few roofs collapse and you guys have WAY more snow.
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