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Posted in Life In Alaska, Moose, Notes from the Admin, seasons, snow, weather on Oct 19th, 2008
Winter is here now, and it is time to think about winter driving. For some reason it seems like every year when the winter months begin, everyone on the road forgets how to drive in winter conditions.
The first thing to be aware of is that the moose are all headed down to the low lands [...]
Posted in Life In Alaska, Notes from the Admin, seasons, snow, weather on Oct 17th, 2008
The cold weather has most definitely set in to stay now. I really want to get some kind of wood stove put in here, but first I will need to rearrange everything in the front half of the house to make room for getting one put in here. That makes me rethink installing one on [...]
Posted in Life In Alaska, seasons, snow, weather on Oct 5th, 2008
The first snow of the season fell today. It started out as a slow drizzle of rain, but I noticed at once there was a odd quality to the sound of the rain, one that could only be caused by the encroachment of sleet into the rain. Sure enough, the porch deck was [...]
It has been snowing again, we got a rather nice coating of the yucky white fluff out there.
I went out to my brother’s garage the other day. Forgot a cardinal rule of snow. Never underestimate it. Came out the side door, closed the door and I just automatically glanced up at the light for some [...]
Posted in snow on Jan 17th, 2008
We got some nice deep fluffy snow here. The other day my brother was encouraging me to get out my ATV and go riding, but my shoulder has been really hurting all week so I decided I better pass. It was very tempting though, he’s got his snow machines out and him and his boys [...]