It's COLD outside

Well, it's official, we are in the trenches of winter, and most people know how I feel about winter here. I DON'T LIKE IT! However, there can be days that some winter fun can be had and yesterday was one of those days. Max and I had a great time sledding with a buddy of Max's (Steven and Steve, Steven's Dad) here on a little slop on base. I of course enjoyed the pictures taking more so then the sledding but I did swoosh down the slope a time or two. Good fun. Thankfully we were able to pack in lots of downhill excitement, giggles and such within a short period of time, I think we were only able to tolerate the very cold temps for about 30 minutes, and then we called it quits. Max and Stevens cheeks and chins were cherry red, and Steve senior and I could barely feel our toes by the time we packed it all up. Still, it was a great time and Max and I were very happy to have been invited to join in on some winter fun. This picture is proof positive that winter and fun can coincide. ;0)

Happy Winter All.
Jane

A sad day

I know that life's not fair. We're taught this from a young age. It took me a while, well into young adulthood to really understand that this is true and to accept it. Really what else can a person do but accept this truth, right? Why fight it? I've realized that life has been good to me, despite the idea above. Yesterday was a reminder though that life really isn't fair at all and that SUCKS!!!! I learned that a high school class mate of mine died at the age of 39 of a rare form of cancer. To say this girl was a friend would not be true, but she was a good person to the core, I had no doubt of that. She's was very kind, unaffected, intelligent......she would accomplish a lot in her life, that I was certain, and she did. So to find out that she had lost her life to cancer at a relatively young age is bitterly disappointing. My heart breaks for her family. People lose their life every day, so why her death should affect me emotionally the way that it has is irrational, especially as I mentioned because we were not friends, but I'm sad despite that. I don’t wish pain, suffering or death upon any one, good or evil, but really why does this have to happen to the nice ones? I hope she is comfortably watching all of us from above smiling down and holding a place for all of those that she loved and adored. There is no doubt that she made it to heaven. Her name was Padma, which means Lotus Flower in Hindu, so I made a digital creation in her honor. I hope she would have liked it.

Written with great sadness today.

Jane