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Installing another built-in cabinet. The spots are refractions of the flash in floating dust particles. Woodworking is a dusty business.

Action shot of me making a turn on my new Telemark skis. I’m still learning, but it already looks quite good, according to my buddies. It feels good too, although I can hardly walk anymore. You use a whole different set of muscles than with cross country or alpine skiing.

In order to relax my aching muscles (both from skiing and woodworking) I had a really nice massage by our friend Suzanne. It was a present from Alison, for Christmas 2003. I should have used that voucher much earlier, it feels so good.

In the end of season sale, I bought myself an early birthday present, a Telemark ski set. The shoes, that unfortunatley weren’t marked down, are the most expensive shoes I ever bought. They are almost as expensive as Manolo Blahniks.
A bit heavier though.

We have supper, and the dogs can only watch. Poor doggies…

Translation: “Gouda Women. Gouda Men. Cheeses from over here. Enjoy their taste.”

So now we know who stole our cheese! The canadians, and they made perfume out of it.

Poupoune on the lookout.

Pepe and Poupoune like to lick the scraps of our plates when we’re done. Especially when we had fish or broccoli. And even though they can’t stand each-other (read: although Poupoune can’t stand anybody getting attention beside her) they don’t fight over food. They eat their food out of the same bowl and share the licking of the plates happily together. Except when I made this picture. This time Poupoune started growling at Pepe and I had to push her away. The picture is better this way, so I don’t mind.

Even the public phones are affected by the snow. This was a closed phone booth but the fine snow finds its way through the smallest openings.

The phone still worked fine.

Two days of snow but I do need to go to a firm far out on a industrial zone, and can’t get there by public transport. So I drive through the storm and enjoy it. I’m always surprised that Montréal doesn’t grind to a halt when there is a lot of snow. The snow removal is pretty efficient. Even though the snowing hasn’t completely stopped, you see snow plows, bulldozers and salt and sand dispersing trucks everywhere.

I later read that there was a snow storm in the Netherlands as well and that in some parts they got two feet of snow. Which is exceptional. It’s also very cold at night, even colder than here. That’s even more exceptional. And there was total chaos on the roads and on the airports.

I’m glad I’m here.