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Happy Friday, Friendies!

Off Grid Cabins, Cats and Toboggan Races

(first two photos taken by Brit Kurtz)

We went to visit a piece of land up in Maine this weekend (more on that in a later post). We have some friends that live a couple towns over, so we stayed with them (and their cattle dog and cats) in their off grid cabin. Our friends work at the local mountain, so we also got a couple runs in at the Camden Snow Bowl and saw the tail end of the Toboggan Races.... Looked like a fantastic time, definitely will have to be there for it next year!

So fun, even if we were only there for half of Saturday and left around noon on Sunday!

Thanks Dave and Brit, always love hanging out with ya!

New friends

Also while in Maine...

We visited some new friends and got to meet the entire farm. I got a little excited and forgot to keep taking photos and these were the only good ones, but how cute is that little cow? She is the definition of sweetness! (as is Sassy, who's face you can see close up!)

Arlo, Pearl and Elsa

When we were in Maine last weekend we stayed with some friends in their off-grid cabin.

It was very cozy and full of both people and furry friends!

Thought I would share a few photos of their animals, who are hilarious. The first 3 photos are of Arlo, the worlds biggest cat, and this is what I woke up to! (the photo where he looks possessed is actually him yawning and playing at the same time, HA!) Pearl is the grey cat and I swear she is really a chinchilla, she is THAT soft!

Such a lively pack!

Spring Snowboarding

This weekend was the last weekend for snowboarding up at Bolton Valley.

So we made sure to take advantage, especially since our friend are moving to Maine and won't be working there anymore.

(Safe and easy moving, guys!)

We had 3 days of different spring skiing.

Friday was raining at the house, but snowing and foggy at the mountain. The snow was soft, but sticky.

Saturday was BEAUTIFUL! You couldn't ask for a better day of Spring skiing. It was sunny and warm (like 50 degrees warm). There was a traditional pond skimming contest which is always fun.

*For those of you who don't know what this is, it is a spring skiing sport where people (usually dressing in a costume or not much of anything at all) try to ski or snowboard across a pond. Obviously the goal is to make it to the other side, but oh the hilarity of watching the people who completely bite it!*

Say hi to Dave, a man of many talents, pond skimmer safety extraordinaire!

(and our friend who is nice enough to let us crash at their house and give us passes to snowboard at Bolton) How fab is that suit!?! He is like an orange Gumbi!

 

Sunday started off a bit rough.

It was overcast and the snow had somewhat frozen overnight making it tough to see and ski on. There were some serious "death cookies" to avoid, but as the day went on and as people skied on the trails the snow softened up. It was super sticky and harder to snowboard on, but so much fun!

I am already ready to go snowboarding again.

We have been very lucky to be able to go as much as we have, but it just won't be the same at Bolton without our friends there! And as much as I am ready for warmer weather and green things poking their little sproutiness out of the dirt, I am not ready to be done snowboarding for the season.

However, we have been thinking of moving to somewhere along the coast of Maine, so now we can start taking trips up to start checking out where me might like to live...

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