Bad Snow and Bad Sleep

It's a lazy Friday morning and at 10:30am I've yet to make way into the kitchen and feed myself. It's been a week full of lazy mornings, not really by choice though.

Sunday afternoon I was again invited over to a church members' house for lunch. It was exceptionally windy and after eating we went to a nearby field and flew those cool kites that you see at the coast, you know, the kind with two strings that you can steer. It was a fun experience, though they are not always that easy to control.

The wind storm continued with enough strength to blow a lot of the decent snow off of my mountain, as well as damaging some part of the upper gondola lodge. The company was forced to close the mountain until this coming Sunday. I've not been able to ski all week here in town. I've been looking into the bus system and figuring out how to ski at other resorts (larger ones). Both of these pictures were taken at the peak of what snow we've had here. According to the locals they can scarce remember a year where the valley floor in the above picture was not covered in snow as well.

Capping a lazy week, I've found myself in a rare position, awake at night. While I am still going to bed at a decent hour I've seen the clock flip past 2:00am probably 10 nights consecutive. Getting up early has been difficult and sleeping in leaves me with a feeling of wasting away precious time. It's really an odd situation.