Oh, Deer, What A Good Weekend

As the gentle reader had probably surmised, my beautiful bride and I took a weekend jaunt to the northern castle, for some desperately needed R & R.

What a wonderful time. I got to catch up on a lot of missed sleep and a lot of missed reading. It snowed almost the entire day Saturday, but it was a gentle snow and the trees were something like out of a magazine.

But the best part of the weekend was the look on my wife's face, when on Saturday night, we were graced with a visit of the king of the woods, a beautiful eight point buck that we've come to know as "Bambi". Her joy was radiant, and it is still with her a full 48 hours later. Just seeing her that happy made the weekend worthwhile.

It was such a relief to know that all of our favorites survived crazy drivers, gun-wielding thugs, and assholes with snowmobiles.

And just as good, no garages collapsed, no pipes froze and no trees fell on us. All in all, it was just about perfect.