Happy New Year! I hope this note finds you happy and healthy heading into 2025.
It feels like a lot happened this past year for Casa Cabeza, to the point that this is now my third attempt to put it all into some kind of context. I finally decided to publish a simple list of highlights.
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| Danno & Sally Cabeza |
These are presented in no particular order.
As discussed on AsForFootball.Com over the weekend, Saturday's game against now #13 Wake Forest was one of the wildest, most emotional roller coaster rides I've ever experienced at Michie Stadium. The Black Knights put up nearly 600 yards of total offense and well over 400 yards rushing, and they maintained time-of-possession for almost 45 full minutes, but they still lost by 14 points -- on basically two plays. It took me a good, long while to come down. Even after sleeping on it, writing on it, and getting in a workout in the pool, I still felt like I was ready to spit fire and punish the guilty.
Sally came to my rescue, as she often does in these situations. It's her birthday later this week. As part of a multi-week celebration, we went hiking along the Meeker Trail near Lake Waramaug in the Western Connecticut Highlands, followed by a wine tasting expedition to Hopkins Vineyard.
It took some doing, but this finally get me back on something like an even keel emotionally.
Pics from the day after the jump.
Sally and I went on a little hike yesterday.
Got to the pool this morning, only to discover the road closed for several blocks in each direction with utility crews working on what I presume was a hit pole overnight. Needless to say, I wound up with a little more time on my hands than I expected to have this morning.
I probably should have worked on stuff for As For Football. A company reached out to us last week about our ads rates, asking very reasonably for our current deck. So I've got to build an ad deck this week.
But not today.
I sat down instead and edited the pics from yesterday's photo essay. Those are after the jump. I personally think the edits help quite a bit, though in a few cases, they also bring out the inherent flaws in the original photographs.
Eh. What can you do?
Sally and I hiked St. Sauveur and the Acadia Mountain Trail while we were up in Maine last week. As the title of this post suggests, these are our pictures.
The hike wasn't too bad save for the climb up Acadia Mountain itself. The mountain is not quite seven hundred feet high, but the way is extremely steep. We also got turned around a bit at one of the trail junctions. I blame myself, but we were trying to follow the signs instead of looking at our map, which was an obvious error in retrospect.
I should note, too, that we took our dog but left our kids at the campsite. This would've been a little much for them. For better or worse, this just isn't their thing.
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| Our route, via AllTrails.com. As you can see, it's steep towards Acadia's peak. |
More pics after the jump.
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| Mount Frissell Trail, via AllTrails.Com |
