Alicia May helped her daddy chop birch logs for the fireplaces the other day. She was mostly there for aesthetic purposes and supervisory support. She loves these snow boots and tries to put them on whenever they surface. She’s actually pretty good at it. Not that they’re a necessary wardrobe item at this point. But one can’t be too prepared!

I added a couple new videos to the dropshots page. (See link at right.) One is much longer than the other and will take a while to load on dial-up I think. The other is just a quickie of Tess doing her roundoff back handspring at practice last night.

I finally discovered I could turn the minivan around in the driveway and drive out forwards. It’s so pitch black when I leave for work in the morning. Yesterday I barely side-swiped the giant boulder near the end of the driveway as I was backing out. The other day I came close to backing into the ditch across the street…