Each Season

I had an amazing time snowboarding yesterday up at Mt Washington with my father-in-law, B.

It was a last minute trip made possibly by our flexible schedules.

The conditions were incredible. A light layer of fresh snow on a solid base. Not windy. Sun poking through for much of the day. I’m told it was more winter skiing than spring.

There were no line ups. B made the point that people are already well into their spring thinking, and have left the mountains behind. The awesome sunny days we have had contributes too.

It was great to see so many elders skiing. You aren’t old, if you’re active.

It’s been many years since I last boarded, and I barely shook off the rust yesterday. Thankfully, my legs are not feeling too sore today.

It made me think of other favorite activities I’ve left behind, and how important for mind, body, and relationships, it is to do the activities each season. Of course, it also made me think of all the many new fantastic activities I now share with my family.

HIRING: Cocky Lordling to Lead Veteran Soldiers to Their Death

I took a long break from reading fantasy fiction, but currently have a craving for the flavor.

I’ve just started reading George R.R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones. The prologue uses probably the most exhausted cliché in fantasy and action/adventure fiction. Cocky lordling leads veteran soliders to their death.

Still I’m really looking forward to getting into this book and the rest of the A Song of Ice and Fire series. It has been recommended to me numerous times.

I hesitated previously because I don’t like to start series that have not had their endings written. I made that mistake during high school in reading the first 8 tomes of Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series — and I mean tomes, each book comes in around a thousand pages of tiny print. Twelve books and twenty years later, the author is dead and the story is still unfinished. I can’t see myself revisiting that one.

A Song of Ice and Fire has 4 books written and 3 more planned.

What has forced my hand a little is that a HBO adaption is imminent. But mostly no other highly recommended books comes to mind.