Camden

The Scrapper and I went to jog our route around the park and through the woods. This arctic type climate makes the snow crunch differently. That is when you can get it to crunch down. It's so frozen on top that you don't hardly ever sink in! The river is frozen...you can walk across it...walk on water! It's cool (actually it's freezing cold!). The sun was out and shining brilliantly. If only the wind wasn't blowing so much.

My face froze when I got out of the trees. There's about 3 miles where you are pretty exposed on top of the tree line and so I covered my face for the most part. My glasses kept fogging up though. And my tearing eye's caused the water to freeze on my face and eye-lashes. You could see where the wind had blown through the paths, and there were ice-sheets everywhere. I've never seen anything like it!

But the way the snow crunches was very different. I can't explain it, but it was like there was a complete lack of moisture in the air and the snow was dry and brittle. It warmed up to about 18F degrees, but the wind-chill made it one of those "feel's like -2F" kind of days. The pitter-patter of Sydney's feet even sounded different. There was not a soul in sight...Just the small hound and I. And we enjoyed our time together in this park that holds a special place for me. We got married here. And this is where we always go when the rest of the Prairie is unsuitable for outdoor play. Summer, Winter, Spring and Fall.

I will have to squeeze in a few more trips out to Camden before we move. I'm up to the gills in boxes again. I'm starting to wonder why I even unpack lately. Mike got these "perQ's" from work, and he ordered new walkie-talkie's for us. (I always thought they were race-radio's!) Anyway, he said we can use them for the drive to Boston. When we drove out here, after we got out of Nevada/Utah we couldn't use our cell phones (we didn't have a National Plan), and there were so many time's when I needed to stop but I couldn't let him know. Now we can just talk on our walkie-talkie's, even though we do have a national plan...we won't need to call each other. And they're voice activated! I think he really got them for racing though. And speaking of racing, I see that Levi won the first stage in the Tour of California. I can't believe I am not there to watch this one!

Monday, Monday...Have a good one!