Skiing and Other Adventures

Last Sunday, Maryrose and I, along with our friend Jeff decided to head to Nakiska for a day of skiing. It was a great day as it was starting to warm up in the mountains. We left chilly Calgary at -20 and arrived at the ski hill with the temperature a balmy -5. Nakiska is Calgary`s closest ski hill, we don`t count Canada Olympic Park. It was also built for the 1988 Olympics.

The Ogre.

Taking a lunch break at the lodge.

Beautiful Kananskis country.

Ready for some turns.

Maryrose hot dogging it.

Jeff pretending he doesn`t know how to ski.

This is the home I am currently working on. It is just outside of Calgary, in an area called Bearspaw. It is the developer`s personal home. It weighs in at around 7000 sq. ft. when you include the walkout basement. I will get more pictures soon of the detailed work. The roof should be done tomorrow. These photos were taken early last week. The roof itself has five, yes, five different pitches. 

Flat lifting two big box girders into place.

Two of the guys warming up their hands by the fire barrel before going back to work.

Well today I was suppose to go skiing with some friends, but decided I needed some downtime. I haven`t been getting enough sleep and feel a bit run down, so while Maryrose was at work I tried to improve my freehand bread shaping techniques. I tried to make a boule last weekend but it was a bit of an embarrassment so I decided to try again. Definitely an improvement, not that that was hard! I used the bread machine to mix the dough and do the first rise. Then I took the dough out and let it rest for fifteen minutes or so. After that I used the serrated bread knife as a lame and ``slashed`` the bread before the final rising. Both my shaping and slashing techniques could use some serious improvement but it will get there.