Jim McIntosh

Birthday Card from my Mom

In the new age of social media, with hundreds of “friends and followers” watching your every move it can be a little creepy. That is until they wish you Happy Birthday. I’ve received more than 35 comments on FB today from people I haven’t talked to in some time. It made today a little nicer.

The best was coming home to the kids who ran into the garage as I got home and getting a funny card from my Mom that is now on display in my man cave.

Today is the end of our 2008 Thanksgiving vacation. Last Wednesday Kelly visited the girls at their school for a Thanksgiving feast and party.

On Thursday we visited Kelly’s parents in the afternoon for a nice relaxing no stress Thanksgiving dinner. Dinner was great and the girls and I played a few games of 9 Ball with Grandpa Tschohl. He beat us 4 out of 5 games.

Friday Kelly hit the Black Friday shopping scene in the morning and I taught the girls how to jump of a couch into a bunch of pillows – Father of the Year… (continue reading…)

So as I said a post ago or so, I was planning on skiing with Brig at Solitude Saturday. Since we knew this was going to be a blue bird day we planned on looking for great photo opportunities. We plan on posting all the photos and the full story on gear.com this week, but I thought I’d share the short update and some photos before then. (continue reading…)