Happy Valentines, and Naughty Nanuk

Obviously, I have been busy! I haven't had any time to get this done, so I'm staying late to night to get the update done. Eric and I had a great Valentine's... he got me 2 DVDs (Grindhouse's Planet Terror and Saw V) and a CD (GWAR, but now I can't remember which one it was), a fountain (which we are having a hard time finding a home for in the house), a gift certificate to El Farol - my all time favorite Mexican restaurant and a marker for my golf ball. Wow! He spoiled me, we enjoyed a glass of wine by the fire place and had a very romantic evening. On Sunday, I had planned to take us skiing at the Canyons and to dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House. After dropping the dogs off to be babysat, we were on our way.

Here we are beginning our adventures.. doesn't take long for frost to appear on Eric's beard! Neither of us had been there before, so it was an exploratory adventure. We just skied around wherever and then went up whatever lift we ended up at. It was fun, but we accidentally took a wrong turn and tried going down a very difficult double blue. On Eric's second fall down that hill, his skis popped off and he was flying down the mountain!! He couldn't stop, there was powder flying everywhere and he finally stopped about 150 yards down from his skis. Fortunately, a kindly skier grabbed his skis and brought them down to him. He didn't even try skiing down the rest of the way, he just hiked down.

Afterward we went to the very prestigious Ruth's Chris... it was amazing. They are a world renowned steak house so even though I don't eat beef, I had to have a steak. It was so incredible. If they always tasted like that, I might have to go back to eating them.



This past weekend we spent finishing up Nanuk's dog run. We reinforced each and every link, put in a floor made of pavers and spent hours making it impenetrable. On Sunday we left him in it and when we got home, there he was by the door!!!!! He had pushed the whole thing across the lawn to a point where it sloped down and he could slip underneath it. He also ripped a good sized hole in the gate..... That dog is unstoppable! This morning I chained him to a tree that was right behind the dog run and hog tied his legs/feet together in four places. By the time I got in the house and put my boots on, he was standing up with all my handiwork at his feet. Fortunately, the tree did hold him until Eric got home with minimal damage to the dog run. That dog.... makes me appreciate how good this little girl is though -

Thanks Peanut, you really are a good little good good....