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Hanging out in Oroville, Washington

This week I had ambitious plans to post like crazy, but that somehow never materialized.  Our hilarious and crazy friend, Bryce (of Kilmore Place fame… check them out because they sound delicious), graciously offers up his cabin to us for a few weekends every year (I use the term cabin loosely… it is a lovely home that is probably the best time capsule of 1983 that you could ever find).  I am sitting in the fabulously wallpapered kitchen right now, avoiding the heat and contemplating how to rid myself of my awkward tan lines before I get married in 6 weeks.

Most of our time is spent on the lake, practicing all of the different ways one can pull any kind of board behind a boat.

Yesterday it was too windy to wakeboard, but not windy enough to kiteboard, so we headed to a ranch to go horseback riding.  I am proud to say that I managed to stay on the first time I have ever been bucked (Joe, my horse, had a severe attitude problem and didn’t want any of the other horses to pass us… he took an actual bite out of the horse’s bum in front of us).  I am now 4 seconds closer to $100,000.

Riding with Bryce’s girlfriend, Kerri

This is our 8th summer mooching off of Bryce, and I’m finding that I am appreciating the down time more as I get older.  Working for ourselves, Kevin and I find ourselves frequently working 16 hour days.  We both love what we do, but it is important to take the time to decompress and detach from your work.  At home tomorrow is “BC Day”, a provincial stat holiday.  So for the next 24 hours, I will unplug my laptop again and go back to appreciating Bryce…

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