Thanksgiving! & When was the last time you saw Tucker play with Tinkerbell....?

Tucker entertained while others socialized and/or cooked/nibbled... Jessie really seemed to appreciate it though!!


So, we were Thanksgiving 'orphans' this year with no invites to anyone's house for any festivities... but we had a hut trip to prepare for the next morning which was ok.

Laura and Shelley invited us over early in the week and we decided to hike on over (they live in our neighborhood) and partake in their (food) deliciousness! And, it WAS delicious!

From this weekend

p.s. that's Karyn in the blue jacket and red pants on the telemark skis!

Turkey time!

Sounds like we're hosting Christmas this year. We're going to fry a turkey. That's always a fun event, and I really like the outcome.

Everyone has heard the horror stories of burning the turkey when the oil is too hot, and heck burning down the house when the oil catches fire.

We're using the recommended peanut oil, flash point at 460 degrees or so. We'll try to keep the fryer at 350 for best results...

The Vanpool invited us to join them on Thanksgiving... I offered to fry the turkey for them too. Shelly really likes the idea of 1 hour or less cook time... As their party grew, we're going to fry 2 turkeys... This will be fun!

Here are a couple cool links:
Maybe we'll try some gumbo recipes...
http://www.gumbopages.com/food/poultry/fried-turk.html

This one has lots of nice warnings...
http://www.crawfishcoofcentralflainc.com/Fried-Turkey-Instructions.html

Weekend ski trip

Headed up Sunday again. We ran into a few friends.

I haven't played with the helmet cam footage yet, but I'll see if I can get something up in the next day or two.

The weather was nice, but the slopes were icy.

Brian came up to join us, somehow we never saw him. There must be enough of the mountain open to completely miss someone up there, and you know cell phones don't work at a-basin.

World Diabetes Day (or how the Browns spent the weekend?)

So, November 14th is World Diabetes Day - bet ya never knew that, huh?

The American Diabetes Association in Colorado hosted an Adult Type 1 and Family retreat weekend at Beaver Creek, CO. We had a researcher speak about the research he is doing with mice (using all the great donations to me, your RED RIDER?!?!?) and the progress he has made. It was absolutely amazing! I was on a panel of adult diabetics who spoke to the children

and then another panel that spoke to the parents. There was also a discussion between spouses of us diabetics and all that they deal with which sounded REALLY interesting but I was busy talking to the kids at that point. WOW - lots going on!

At dinner on Saturday night I spoke to the group about Team WILD. I didn't realize all the emotions that parents go through until our Team WILD dinner after the 1/2 Ironman when one of the parents said (through her tears of joy) 'When my toddler was diagnosed with diabetes I never could have imagined that this was EVEN POSSIBLE' I wanted these parents to know that 15 of us, with 300 - yes, THREE HUNDRED YEARS - of diabetes between us did just what so many people in our lives thought our disease would prevent.

I hope I inspired just a tiny bit of hope... I hope.

We also met up with our friends Emily and Dave and Tucker got to meet Carter!

It was wonderful to hang out with them in the hot tub and watch their little water baby splash and play! My hope is that he never has to deal with diabetes.... He (and every other non-diabetic) is why I am now involved with these groups that help to cure and improve the life of diabetics and their support network - cause this disease doesn't just affect us and that is what I walked away with this weekend.... until next weekend?

I've been working on some video

I finished up the MonoP video from last year. You'll have to wait for the DVD to come out. Its about 35 minutes.

But this one is from today.

I think it worked out

Some video, some taken by me 1 mile away on 20x zoom. The other... I think you can tell who.