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Thirty-Two Years

03 Saturday Aug 2019

Posted by Ed Mahoney in Storytelling

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Karen and I enjoyed the garden at the Greenbriar Inn Thursday night to celebrate thirty-two years.   Our conversation was less nostalgic, and instead focused on our daughter’s upcoming wedding.  Nothing against my childhood, it was fine, but life for me didn’t start until I married Karen.  I imagine Brittany Noel might feel the same about her life thirty-two years from now.  There’s nothing quite like growing a family.

It’s common to hear people say marriage takes work.  It has its ups and downs.  All those cliches.  I don’t know.  Maybe I’ve been blessed.  Life has hardships for sure, but marriage, fatherhood, life over the past three decades has been a dream for me.  I would change nothing and repeat everything – given the chance.

Okay, maybe I would pick a cooler month to get married.  But then Brittany Noel isn’t getting married deep in Texas like Karen and I did.  Her nuptials will be high in the mountains.  I wish her and Eric all the love Karen and I have experienced.

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Final Destination

31 Monday Dec 2018

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I’ll pick up where I left the girls off, in the Texas Panhandle.  Does this look like Amarillo?  Not content to view Texas in the rearview mirror, they turned around for a good look back.  Colorado is their final destination.

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Thelma has a boyfriend to get back to in time for a new year’s kiss.  She told Louise to wake up early for the final leg.  When Louise tried waking her at 5:30am, she said that was too early.

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The girls were on the road again by 6:30.  They had to turn back to Amarillo for gas though, losing 30 minutes from their early start.

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Thelma drove them through New Mexico.  Louise took the wheel in Raton and carried them home to Colorado.  They arrived safely in the mid-afternoon.

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Texas Panhandle

29 Saturday Dec 2018

Posted by Ed Mahoney in Ellie Rose, Storytelling

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Ellie Mahoney, grlpwr, Karen Collier Mahoney

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Karen and Ellie let me out at mom’s house Saturday morning.  They delayed their departure for better weather.  Those girls aren’t trying to beat the Post Office.  Ellie got us from Austin to Round Rock via MoPac.  Karen took the wheel heading out of town.

When I drive, I tend to steer well east of Lubbock.  It’s too early for dinner and too late for lunch, and too tempting to stop early for dinner, making the next day a longer drive.  

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Coincidentally, when Karen drove it today, her map app took her through the middle of her college stompin’ grounds.  Go Tech.

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Karen called me after reaching Amarillo to say they had a nice ride.  Ellie drove for ninety minutes.  They were planning dinner.  

The two are driving home for the new year.

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Spring Break

31 Thursday Mar 2011

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Breckenridge, Karen Collier Mahoney, snowshoe, spring break

We went snowshoeing a second day for Ellie’s spring break.  It appears we’ve acquired a new pastime.  Have you ever gone for a weekend ski trip where you or someone else didn’t fully get the skiing thing?  Maybe you liked it when you were younger.  Now your eyesight is such that you can’t see the dips.  Or your legs don’t have the stamina to complete the run without countless stops.  But you like exercise and you enjoy the outdoors.  So for you, the combination of both woods and a mountain are exquisite.  And snow is like the cherry on top.  Snowshoeing is hiking on steroids.  The three of us, two 48 years olds and an 8 year old, kept pace together for treks of 100 minutes on day one and 75 minutes on day two.  And we all seriously enjoyed it.

To be totally honest, Ellie would have preferred something else, but she took the lead for the entire second half of our hike.  I don’t care if her reason for that was impatience with my pace, the girl took charge and enjoyed it.  We had fresh powder from nonstop dumps of snow, and we were the first ones out on the trail this morning.  Ellie had to navigate by reading the signs; the ground hints were completely invisible half the time.  I can’t get inside her head but she’s leaving here with something memorable.

And actually Karen led the first half, not me.  Both those girls were clearly enthralled by the specter of fresh powder covering the trail, and the challenge of navigating by sighting trail signs.  Ellie’s seemingly random barks of caution for potential danger of holes and soft snow left me in wonder at how leadership forms in a young girl’s life experience.  And if leadership is genetic, I’ll admit here and now that neither Karen or Ellie allowed me a chance to lead today.  To the back pops.

As I planned yesterday, and related in my last blog post, we took today’s hike to the Shock Hill gondola stop and rode up to Peak 8.  We ate a nice lunch at the T-Bar – the food had a southwestern flair.  And on full stomachs, we rode back down the gondola, strapped on our snowshoes, and hiked the remaining half mile or so to the Nordic Center to complete this morning’s outing.  We proceeded directly to the ice skating rink where we all remembered we suck at ice skating.  But with full tummies we continued our day of working out.  I suffered the additional embarrassment of some authoritative 17 year old girl instructing me to sit down to tie my shoes properly before I broke an ankle.  Tired from taking the backseat to women all day, I all-to-weakly complained about the shoe strings being too long; but soon found myself benched retying my laces.  And she was right; I skated much better afterward.

Once back at the hotel, surprisingly Ellie was too tired to immediately swim.  I took that as my chance to avoid the cold pool and spend some quality time in the hot tub.  And it was perfect – a steaming outdoor hot tub in snowfall.  After about 20 minutes, 5 minutes past my second punch of the 15 minute timer, I was in some sub-level conscious state when several pounds of ice rolled off the lodge roof and slammed into the concrete near my head like a Japanese earthquake.  My 20 minutes of mental calmness was forever disrupted, but my physical stress was already fully restored.  This vacation has been a – well a vacation.  A successful one.  Karen is just so excellent at setting these things up for us.  To be fair, I couldn’t fully escape work.  And who can in the age of 110% American productivity?  But even though I had to remain engaged, my peers and even management were pulling their weight and making things happen for me to enjoy the week.  We head home tomorrow morning, but with no regrets.  This was an awesome spring break.

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Spring Snowshoe

30 Wednesday Mar 2011

Posted by Ed Mahoney in Snowshoe

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Breckenridge, Karen Collier Mahoney, nordic, snowshoe, spring break

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My second snowshoe outing for the year – this one while on spring break with Karen and Ellie in Breckenridge at the Nordic Ski Center.  This was the first time ever for Karen and Ellie to snowshoe.  Karen really enjoyed it.  Ellie started out strong but for some reason lost her mojo and got grumpy.  Still, a grumpy Ellie is nothing like some temperamental youngsters.  She stomped onward; she even assumed the lead for awhile.

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We hiked the Pence Miller trail.  It’s a loop (not sure the distance) and it took a little under 2 hours.  Tomorrow we plan to hike the shorter Willow trail, but will take it to the Shock Hill gondola stop and ride up the mountain for lunch and more activities on Peak 8.  Not sure if we’ll do any typical skiing on this trip, but we also have plans for ice skating.  No running on this vacation, but it’s good to mix things up every now and then.  I’m thinking of even squeezing in a deep tissue massage in the spa.  Why not?

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