I’ve been in the San Francisco area for over two years.  I learned to snowboard at Keystone in Colorado and rode many of the ski resorts around Washington DC where I worked at the time.  One of my favorite resorts was Snowshoe is West Virginia.  It is small but nice and the resort is at the top of the mountain where  the lifts bring you back to the resort.  Since moving to San Francisco I wanted to return to the slopes but none of my friends skied.  Sure, they wanted to go and we kept saying we’d go some weekend but it never came together.  I didn’t know any of the area resorts or the best way to get there.  Then finally a friend mentioned the NISEI SKI CLUB’s trips and their discount for new members.  It looked great!  I signed up for trips 3 and 4. Read the rest of this entry »

Storks: A mustering of storks
Swans: A lamentation or wedge of swans
Swine: A sounder or swift of swine
Toads: A knot of toads
Trout;: A hover of trout
Turkeys: A rafter of turkeys
Turtledoves: A pitying or dule of turtledoves
Turtles: A bale of turtles
Woodpeckers A descent of woodpeckers

Answers to last month’s puzzles:

An easy answer for last month’s puzzle of 4 x abcd =dcba is 0000 (I lost the harder one).
For the 5 digit number, 4 X 21978 = 87912. Congrats to Greg Wong for solutions.

For this month:

Each of the letters in the addition problems below stands for a unique digit. Find the digits to make the additions correct: