Skiing Anyone?

[Michael Palmer]

Anyone want to ski northern Vermont? Smugglers Notch or Jay Peak? Maybe Sutton, Quebec? Another month and a half of winter here.

Come on...It'll put some color in yer cheeks.

[Dubhe]

Sounds great but 6 kids and $70. lift tickets converted us to cross country.

[Michael Palmer]

Sounds great but 6 kids and $70. lift tickets converted us to cross country.

That'll do it. Sutton, Quebec was $40 Canadian last time I went. Buy a pass after noon on a weekday, and you get another weekday free.

[JPK]

Sunapee has some specials.

32 bucks for Sunday 12-4 if you're a NH Resident or Magic Mondays for 40 bucks all day and 2 for 1 Wednsdays.

[Dubhe]

Honey, load up the car !

[berkshire bee]

Special offer. cross country ski most anywhere for free. Steep downhills are more exciting when you can hardly steer!

[Michael Palmer]

Special offer. cross country ski most anywhere for free. Steep downhills are more exciting when you can hardly steer!

Cross country is nice. You get out in the country, and fresh air. Lots of good exercise. Sunshine and vitimin D.

I'm out in the fields every day, for 8 months a year, working bees, growing nucs and queens. If I get much more exercise, it's gonna do me in. You have to understand what downhill skiing is to me. It's how I heal. It's head medicine!

So, what's head medicine??

OK, true story. I give an old friend I haven't seen in 20+ years, a quart of honey, and a really nice cut comb. He lives in a little hovel of a one room, in Burlington. All the windows and door covered with blankets at 2 PM. Him just out of bed, hobbling about in his disjointed body. The room is 90 degrees and 90% humidity in December. And, this guy's become a wicked hypocondriact. Shows me all his pills and suplements such. Tells me of his near death experiences. Shows me his...do I really have to see this?? He asks me if the honey is medicine?

I get a huge smile, and say it sure is. It's "Head Medicine." You eat it. You smile. Your head is alllll better.

Ahh, life is good.