My buddie

                                     My skiing ,hiking buddie and true friend and I
                                   went to Ontareo to ski  this last weekend.

My friend being a far better skier than I, left the choice of
determining our coarse to me.
I being somewhat of a whimp knew that they would prefer the most difficult and challenging
coarse. I debated this for a moment, then taking a deep breath , choose the most challenging trail.

It was indeed a challenge  . . .  Alot of up and up and up and doooown  . . .
I did well. I was surprised .

Though this had much to do my friends encouragement and training.
The trails were spectacularly beautiful, with mountains all around us.

I fearlessly hugged the hills toward the end of the day ,
poleless and clueless as to what I had been so afraid of before.

What a metaphore for life . . .
When I left Ontareo, I'm not kidding , I was a brand new brave me.

When I skied today ,at one of my usual ski places ,
 always slightly confronted by'' THE HILL '' . . .

I stood a top it and thought , is this actually a hill  ? THE HILL ????
OMG .. . .  IT'S BARLEY AN INCLINE . . .  .
What a metamorphosis !!!!

There was no falling except when I stopped to pee , I slid on the ice, pants down .
And found myself completly tangled in my skis in the middle of the path . Nice !

Finally through my struggles and after what seemed eternity, I got to my feet with a
sprained wrist , only to fall again ,  backwards this time . . .
Bare assed mind you , into the very TALL snow bank,
while hearing the approaching skiers ,
still . . . . with a full bladder and pants literally FULL of snow !!!!!!

I finally managed to pull myself into an ''upright position'', uprighting my pants as well.
feeling quite humiliated , but knowing my secret was safe
with the boys, me  and  . . .you . . .
So I  went on my ''MERRY WAY'' to the end !

Yet another notch ( with snow ). . . .

 In my . . . . End !!!!!

Lark