It’s Nemo!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Day 278, 10/5/2011
The People have spoken. Again.
A proposition to have the government regulate the Interior’s heating methods was previously put to a vote and died a resonant death, and yesterday, voters went to the polls and reiterated their wishes for the government to leave this one up to them.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Day 279, 10/6/2011
In Alaska, PFD stands for two things. Personal floatation device and Permanent Fund Dividend. Today, many Alaskan citizens became $1,174 richer.
Unfortunately despite the Sadler’s lady’s best efforts, most of our dividends will end up going into the heating fuel tank.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Day 280, 10/7/2011
The Fairbanks Ice Dogs’ home season opener was heaving to the gills with fans eager to see the game. The Tier II Junior A NAHL team are recent Robertson Cup champions.
Tonight they play the…Jackalopes???
Fif-ty fif-ty!
Fights break out ever so often at these games.
There are purists who much prefer the town’s other outstanding team, the University of Alaska Fairbanks Nanooks, to the Dogs, but I have to admit I much prefer this brand of blue collar style excitement. It’s sort of like comparing an Olympic wrestling match to the UFC octagon.
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Day 286, 10/13/2011
10/13/2011
Today I was very fortunate to be able to help out my old Park Service buddies and fly northeast of Fairbanks to the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. Our mission was to locate as many wolf packs as possible via radio tracking. A couple of wolves in each pack are wearing collars with radio transmitters that send signals to a receiver that we carried in the plane. I used the receiver to scan for signals and then the pilot and I would try to locate where the signal was coming from by eliminating areas of land until the signal was strong enough that we could spot them from the plane.
We were successful in locating the wolves, however, with them and the plane both moving fast in different directions, I was never successful in getting a good photo of the animals, but here were a couple things that stayed still enough for me to get a good shot.
Here’s the back of Curtis’ (the pilot) head.
Here’s the area coming into the Preserve.
Here’s the runway at Cold Creek Camp, where we stopped to refuel and use the outhouse.
Here’s the (starting to get icy) Salcha River, which we followed back to Fairbanks since the way we came out this morning was closed due to snow and fog that had moved in on us.
Here’s me in my headset.
Here’s downtown North Pole.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Day 287, 10/14/2011
Today was a day for splitting and stacking wood.
We have a ways to go before we’re done with this chore.
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Day 288, 10/15/2011
Halfway through October and our first sticking snow of the year (others have melted off).
Goodbye grass, see you in six months!
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Day 289, 10/16/2011
The view from the office today.
National Weather Service meteorologist Julie Malingowski observes and measures the last day’s precipitation.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Day 290, 10/17/2011
True to form, par for the course, and every other cliché you can think of, a little snow hits the roads and everyone forgets how to drive for a day.
Click here to see a 16 second video of fall and winter arriving to our street. It may have been time lapsed a tad, but it doesn't take much longer to actually get from summer to winter around here!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Monday, March 14, 2011
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Day 295, 10/22/2011
Leapin’ lizards! Bruce Hanson and company in Fairbanks Light Opera Theater’s production of “Annie.”
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| Photo by Kayla Kappel |
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Friday, March 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Day 298, 10/25/2011
Yuck! This is what happens when a warm chinook wind blows through the Interior and meltage occurs, a preview to break up!
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Monday, March 7, 2011
Day 301, 10/28/2011
The morning flight to Anchorage leaves a vapor trail as the sun rises over Fairbanks and the Alaska Range.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Day 302, 10/29/2011
Finally, the night we wait for all year, our annual Halloween costume party!
We had quite a spread as usual, much of which was generously brought by our honored guests. Kayla’s little mice were almost too cute to eat.
The punch was almost too scary to drink!
Here’s Laura Ingalls, the winner for best kid’s costume.
The best female costume went to Wonder Woman, accompanied here by her good friend Supermom!
We had a surprise sweep for best male costume and best overall costume, both of which went to the Leprechaun, who was congratulated by his lovely gypsy wife.
I love Halloween!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Friday, March 4, 2011
Day 304, 10/31/2011
Trick or Treat!
Forgot to check the temps outside, but it had been just above zero all day. Warm by Interior standards for late October, so the kids were out in force.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Day 306, 11/2/2011
Today was the first day we noticed the pups doing the hotfoot dance outside. When it’s far enough below zero, walking across the yard for them is like walking in hot sand on the beach in bare feet.
So we got the booties down from the toybox, and Pumpkin donned them for the first time.
As you can see, he took to them like a duck to water, and they all had a great time playing in the snow with warm paws.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
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