Month: February 2022

Looks like I’m helping The Bigs clean, right?

Wrong! I’m curling.

This week we returned to Mexico for Baja shrimp tacos with lime crema, rice and beans, and fried plantains.

I decided to spend my allowance on another soldering kit. Here I am getting started.

This one is going to take a while. Can you guess what I am making?!

We had another powder day today. It was a real Pacific Northwest kind of day. Wet, wet snow. It was tricky skiing. I managed, falling less than The Mother…

and even did another black diamond (Grotto) not once but TWICE.

I have a loose tooth, but it wasn’t the tooth fairy who came this week. The ski fairy came and left a pair of skate skis.

I tried them out on Saturday. We had great conditions and lots of sunshine. Everyone was spent by the end. Here are two videos The Mother took.

On Sunday we had our first powder day since Christmas break. It was pretty great despite the Presidents’ Day holiday crowd.

Here’s another video. That woman just won’t let me do anything without shoving a camera in my face.

All my activities make me hungry. I wanted a ‘small’ snack last night after dinner.

Just in case you can’t see – it’s fruit salad with chocolate chips in a TWO CUP container.

This week our country was Panama. We had Panamanian stew.

We also had a Thai Crunch Salad one night:

Valentine’s Day is coming, so I made a mailbox for school. The Bigs made me put hearts on it. Not sure why.

I made cards for my teachers from a shiitake mushroom:

It has been warm here, really warm, end-of-days warm, but the skiing is still good.

I’m back to skating on my too-short classic skis.

My friend from school, Quinn, came over to play Saturday afternoon. We did some archery, some trapeze swinging, and here we are making lego lugers:

Our culinary travels took us to Greenland (!?) this week. Baked cod loin and hot potato salad:

This week, I made African peanut stew.

The picture does not do it justice, it was very good.

I have some complaints about my wardrobe. My underwear aren’t right, the pants mom bought me are for toddlers, and I am SO over the sneakers without LACES.

That’s better. Now about my underwear…

We did not have school on Friday. Why not? It’s not like The Bigs have jobs or anything. Mom took Hazel and me to the rock gym.

I climbed to the very top every single time.

I did some cross country skiing on Saturday. I said I was tired, but I just kept going.

And then on Sunday, I did some ‘pine.

We were all having fun, until…

I decided it was time to conquer my last lift. NORTHWEST EXPRESS. The Bigs conferred. They felt confident there had to be one reasonable run off the lift. Incorrect.

So, we chose this one.

Oh, yes, it was an icy black diamond.

Even The Bigs admitted it was terrible. They said it was a ‘character building experience’. I guess that is another way to say BAD PARENTING.

I made it down and was all smiles. Maybe, just maybe, they were right.

Some other things we ate this week:

Teff waffles:

and injera bread.