Trails, trails and more trails!
I was a (wannabe) musher for a long time. My first time on the back of the sled was way back in the early 1990’s. I even moved a few times searching for snow–don’t we all? I lived in Minnesota where it is sometimes very cold and the winters can be brutal but often there […]
Snow…
Yes it is true, we have had a snowy winter in Willow, Alaska. Not quite as much as the folks in Valdez and Cordova to the southeast of us on Prince William Sound. But we have had our fair share for sure. Today, Tyler and I ventured out on the snow machine in -22 degrees […]
Icicles have been known to kill people!
Today was a holiday. At least for people that have “real jobs”. Here in Alaska we worked around the Fort. We stacked a cord of wood. We checked the propane tank in waist deep snow and even fixed a clogged vacuum. In the middle of it all Michele managed to dang near slice off […]
Snow at the Fort
If one thing can describe this winter in Willow, Alaska it would have to be snow! Even some of the old sourdoughs here in the Great White North say that this is unusual. I love it of course but I don’t know about my back…
NaBloPoMo: Earliest Memory
I am participating in NaBloPoMo this month sponsored by the site, BlogHer.com. Today’s prompt is what is your earliest memory? I have two of them actually and they both are about my dad. It was 1977 or so and we were living in Huntington, West Virginia. I was about to enter school and my mom […]