letter-to-mom

Pray for Snow!

Dan Weatbrook

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Pray for Snow!
Snow is pretty thin in the pass at the moment.

Hello!

I hope this missive finds you happy and content with whatever you are doing at the moment. Things have been good around here since the begining of the year. Catherine and I have been getting up to the pass on Wednesday Nights, and coming home on Sat Morning. The first week we did it, we had good snow, but now it hasn't snowed for more than a week, and it has been warm, so while we went up there, we didn't get out this past week. We could tell what it was going to be like, just by the amount of dirt showing through the snow everywhere.

Last weekend, I ran the Rainbow and Unicorn 5k around Green Lake with my team, "unicorn farts." I managed to set a personal record of 40:28 for the 5k, which is faster than I've ever run the inner loop of Green Lake, which is shorter than a 5k. Alex joined me and kept me company and encouraged me along. My next goal for running is to run a 5k faster than Alex can walk with me ;)

I had the chance to catch up with a couple of Expedia friends these past two weeks, on the Anniversary of 1 year of retirement. I have no regrets 😄

This past week also saw me rebuild my electric bike (the controller did not like being out in the weather on the back of the van for three weeks), and it now runs like a brand-new bike; it's lovely.

I also rebuilt a water pump on Airborne, so it is ready to move over to its new home on Lake Union. I'll probably do that later this upcoming week.

Saturday night, we headed over to Bob and Kristie's to watch the Seahawks host the 49ers. Man, that was quite the game, with the Seahawks crushing the Niners 6-41. After the game, Kristi, Sarah, Jana, and I went down to Nectar for a concert.

Today Scott and I took the bus to Fisheries, and then had a very pleasant walk down to the pike street market for lunch before grabbing coffee, and riding the bus home.

Love ya all

Dan W

This was the week before last, and the snow was great!
Catherine and I heading up Silver Fir lift for some runs on Thursday morning
Glorious Day!
Met up with Remy for some hot chocolate.
Catherine and Ben took some runs together.
Catherine and Natalie enjoying the fire.
Team Unicorn farts for the unicorn and rainbow 5k
Alex can walk it as fast as I can run it.
Sara at the finish.
Rebuilding my bike, and using my crane scale to get close on the torque for the drive nut.
On Monday, Bruce (the giuy that first hired me at Expedia) and I went to Bellinghame to have lunch with an old co worker, and stopped at Taylor shellfish farms on the way back to grab oysters that Catherine and I ate that evening.
Motor on the boat is humming now.
The field in front of the condo. Normally you can't see any brush by this time of year.
I took a walk towards Summit East, and the cutover didn't have enough snow to even walk on it.
The condo building.
Friday night Ben, Natalie, and Remy came up, and we played some twister.
Jana, Sarah and Kristie and Nector.

Did a six mile walk with Scott today.

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