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My Birthday Reminds Me I Have A Wonderful Family and Friends

Jim McIntosh — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:57:37 +0000

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.

McIntosh Thanksgiving 2008

Jim McIntosh — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 17:11:00 +0000

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… Friday afternoon I visited with some friend at the Sandstone Bar and Grill where I used to be a Friday afternoon regular before taking the job with ExactTarget. I miss it but am very happy with my stable job thank you.

Yesterday’s weather was wonderful, and we all took time to enjoy it. Kelly went for a run, I put of the Christmas lights, the girls played in the yard and we went out to dinner in Broad Ripple with the Wilkerson’s. We ate at Broad Ripple Stake House. It was nice to get out with grown-ups to a nice restaurant again.

Today we wok up to a fresh coat of about an inch of snow. Before lunch we bundled up the girls and went out to play in the driveway. We also discovered we have a nice little sled hill in our front yard. The girls came inside and had hot chocolate and I’m getting ready to watch the Colts game at 1pm today.

This was a great few days with the family.

Great day at Solitude Ski Resort

jimmcint — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 04:45:33 +0000

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.

On Friday it snowed 10″ at my house near the base of Big Cottonwood Canyon and the reports from the resort were that they received anywhere from 12-15″, so we know we were going to be in for a decent morning. What we didn’t really plan on was being the first to cut the traverse into Honeycomb Canyon behind the ski patrol. We had our pick of the entire canyon. I do have to say though if you look in the pictures I’m going to link to below, it was a bit spooky to see an 8′ crown that ran over ball baring like snow for approximately 400 feet. Patrol did there job and bombed the rest of the area and made sure it was safe before letting us out there, but man if someone got caught in that slide… they’d be lucky to be found.

We had about 3 untracked runs in Honeycomb. The first one was the best simply because we got to pick our line and we did it with a ton of speed. I love caring a ton of speed on deep powder. We also found several choice drops throughout the morning.

Check out all the Solitude photos at my picasa site.