I took another quick video of Tawn Snowboarding yesterday. And while I still have not been able to get the brightness settings right. I wanted to post it because Tawn wipes out at the end of it and I caught it on film. :)
This was taken on a run called The Bomber Cliffs at Mission Ridge:
This next picture showes the reason why I think she wiped out:
:) hahhaha
I’m gonna let you in on a little secret. Me and Tawn both have a pretty healthy, albeit sophmoric senses of humor. One of the running gags we have is to buy odd things we see at stores that we know would crack the other one up. Then bring it home and act like it’s a special gift for the other. No flowers or cards on this boat.
It all started a couple years ago with this product. I saw it on some website and just had to buy it. I have absolutly no use for it, but damn, it cracks us up:
Over the years there have been a number of products. A small jar of Vegimite (I think we still have that nasty little thing somewhere), stinky cheeses, insanely hot bottles of hot sauce with funny ass names, and a 2 gallon jug of yellow mustard, just to name a few.
But then a couple months ago Tawn brings this home:
I’m tellin ya, there is nothing funnier than offering your friends a big handfull of nuts, when they have your name on it….Or is that just me?
Then just the other night she brings this home. What the hell could this actually be? We are both afraid to open it. No way it could be edible. It sounds British for some reason. Not sure why:
WTF??? Look at those nasty little black spots? I can’t quite figure this thing out. On the plus side, it is microwavable.
Oh and P.S. Never eat frozen peas at Scotty and Angie’s. :)
If watching blurry, poor quality video about people snowboarding is something you enjoy. Then today is your lucky day.
I know last time I posted a video, I said that the next one would be of better quality. But the sun, wind and glare off the snow all conspired against me. I even considered not posting the videos, but what the hell. At least my mom will like them. :)
This one is of Tawn, it was take on the last day of 2007. The weather was nice, a little to nice. The sun was so bright the glare made the video turn out weird looking. It actually looks like those old timey videos. I feel like Warren Miller should be make some smart ass remark as we ride past the camera:
And this one is of me. Same deal as the others, odd glare, but you can see what we did on the last day of 2007:
As I said, the quality is crap, I need to work on that.
Ask sailors about running boats aground and they will fall into one of three catagories. Those that have, those that will and those that lie about it. Up until about 11:30 pm December 24th, me and tawn were solidly in the “Those that will” group.
I had no intention of running my boat aground, ever. Actually it is the one thing that I hoped would never happen. But before I get into the details of the grounding, I’ll let you in on our Xmas holiday plans…as boring as they were.
Me and Tawn decided instead of going snowboarding, we decide to sail the boat over to Poulsbo and spend Xmas there in the Marina. A friend of ours Mike, came over on his boat (Bamboo) and hangout too. Other than a small diesel leak into the bilge after filling up the fuel tanks. Everything was normal and fun.
Me and mike spent the majority of Xmas eve fixing the leaks, but we got it done and spent the rest of the time boozing and eating. Tawn made an awesome dinner and after eating, we watched a couple movies and had a few more drinks.
At about 11:30pm, Tawn says: “Uhhhh…why is the boat heeled over so much? The wind is not even blowing!” And right then her wine glass slides across the table and almost drops to the floor.
I got up and went up on deck. Something did not seem right. We were at an odd angle and the water seemed to be further way that it normally is. I stepped off the boat and on to the dock, which was also further away than normal. Which almost resulted in me busting my ass. I did not, but it was close.
We looked at the tide charts and noticed that X-mas Eve had one of the lowest tides of the year. Which resulted in our boat touching the bottom. Not only touching the bottom, but actually sitting on the bottom. And as the tide continued to go out and the dock kept dropping with the tide. The boat had hit bottom and was now leaning heavily against the dock and sticking up a foot or two out of the water. It was very odd. But as the tide, as it is known to do came back in, and we were floating again within the hour and things were back to normal.
We woke up to a very cold and very rainy X-mas morning. After getting the boat packed away we took off and headed for home. As I said the weather was cold, rainy and windy. And a first for us….it was actually snowing!! Sailing in the snow! That was a first.
At this point I have to mention that for X-mas Tawn got me a new digital camera. Me and Tawn have pretty bad luck with cameras. To date, we have dropped and broken two and and dropped and lost one. So this one is drop proof, water proof and my favorite feature….it not only takes pictures, it takes movies as well.
Lucky, lucky you!!
We I just had to try this new feature out on the sail home. And about half way through, you’ll see that I also tried out the drop proof feature as well. :P Ooops!
Anyway, here’s the first of may crappy home videos shot by me or Tawn for your viewing pleasure:
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