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Alison is mad at me.
I’m mad at Alison.

She watches television until 4 in the morning, when she finally falls asleep on the couch, guarded by Pepe, I snap this picture. People usually only take pictures on happy moments, but it’s necessary to also log the less happy moments.

BTW, we’re friends again.

When I’m surfing the web or reading my email, Poupoune lies in her basket under my desk, lined with sheep skin. If I get up she follows me like a dog.

On this really beautiful day, with a bright blue sky, no wind, and -5 degrees we went to a cross-country ski ‘resort’ in the Laurentians, about 1 hour north of Montréal. I went with my Dutch friend Paul, who, despite that he’s 24 years my senior, is in top condition. And so were the tracks. We skied a whopping 25 kilometer over quite difficult terrain and we passed a lot of people and were not once overtaken by others. I’m proud of myself.

It’s apparently a technique to clean fur coats, and it even involves sawdust…

She likes to play Quinck, and is pretty good at it.

Resting in te sun during a walk in the snow. We are in a provincial park that is closed in the winter, but we weren’t the only ones that just ignored the ‘Fermée”-signs and went ahead anyway. It was beautiful and even though we had to put Poupoune in her backpack after a while, she enjoyed it just as much as we did.

Early Valentine dinner in restaurant ‘Le fil de Ariane’. Yes, I though about you Marijn…

Yesterday I went to a webloggers (MetaFilter) meeting in Ottawa but it turned out I was a week too early. Stupid me.

But today I made it up by going cross-country skiing with my father in law. We went to Gatineau Park, on the other side of the Ottawa river. It was extremely busy but after we took a backcountry trail, that wasn’t prepared by a machine, and went on narrow paths through the woods, there was almost nobody else. I really enjoyed myself. I like being outside in the snow, in case you hadn’t figured that out already.

I’m installing two bookcases at a client and have covered all the furniture with plastic. Now she is practising safe computing. No virus will come trough. Ah well, there aren’t any virusses because it’s a Mac.

Cross-country skiing in the Ruyter Valley, close to the Vermont border about 1.5 hour drive south east of Montréal. Very nice and very quiet; there was hardly anybody else.

My first weekend of Telemark skiing and I loved it! It was hard to un-learn my alpine ski reflexes (even though it’s about 8 years ago since I last did any alpine skiing) but after a day and a half I suddenly got the hang of it.

Did I already say I love it?

(I do have sore muscles though. Umph.)