Friday morning from Naples, Idaho, January 27th, 2012 The ongoing saga of a retired person who keeps working in order to maintain a basic life style in the woods.

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Too windy for pleasant skiing I had thought of going skiing on my day off yesterday, but when I checked, only two of the chairs were open because of high winds. So I went up in the afternoon to attend the Prime Timers social meeting at 3:00 instead. Some of those attending said they went but that it was rather brutal even though the snow was good. Down on the valley floor it's slush, but up on the mountain there was dry snow blowing in the air.

This is the view of the mountain served by the chair on the left. Notice it's not running and there is no one on the slopes. The sky was beautifully clear and blue.

It's a rare day when the sky is clear with no wind and the snow is good! This occurs mostly on the days I have to work.

Mathew Ho and Asad Muhammad, two Toronto teens, built a balloon and successfully sent it up 24 kilometers in the air. You can read their story here at the The star.com

Their still and video cameras shot some wonderful pictures from high above the earth.

When at last the balloon broke, it came back to earth safely with a parachute that they sewed themselves. These are our future scientists!

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Ed's Pictures are taken with a Fujifilm HS10 camera

Till next time,

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