Thursday, March 3, 2011

trying to try harder for Jenny

Because of JennyCase's comment on FB, I have decided to "try harder" and "write more stories." I know what it's like to check a blog over and over only to have a certain blogger fail to update.

We'll continue to move through December. We might even hit xmas. It's too soon to tell.



These are the 2nd set of xmas lights Fred and Julianne sent (the first were the dolphins which are still up). It took me 4 tries to get them when they were all lit up. The little lighthouses have 2 lights and the top one blinks. Someone at our NYE party told us they resemble penises and my neighbor could not contain her laughter when she asked me what exactly we had put in our window. They will return next year for sure. I devised a way to clip them to the blinds so they'd stand up.


Living in Nome, we get visitors traveling from village to village and village to lower 48 fairly frequently. Amy is one such visitor. She and Obama shared a not-so-private moment at Airport Pizza.


Another visitor who frequents our humble abode is Barnabas--here he is sporting his Just Give Up sweatpants in public.


And this is just one of the many delicious pizzas that can be enjoyed at AP (for a large sum of money). Tasty, very tasty. And look at the greenery!


We went to AP to see this guy, Willis, sing and play guitar. He's a teacher on Diomede and was traveling around SE Asia during winter break performing.


Our friends Opik, Nathan, and Aprille were there. As you may recall from a previous post, Opik grew up on Diomede and Nathan and Aprille were teachers there.



Anahma played some fiddle. (Beard now has her old position at Kawerak.)


Ann-Marie came by.



And Barnabas and Thomas decided to have dessert.

That's all for now.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

wow, it's march

The last 2.5 months have been busy and lazy and not wanting to bloggy. I spent that time imbibing and then refraining, reading, watching Stephen King movies, "reality" TV, crocheting, and more reading. Here are some pictures from that time.



Sometime before Christmas, Beard and I rode out with Katie to Banner Creek. Nathan and Aprille were having a cookie decorating party. The road in wasn't too bad.



We parked on the road and walked in. Elise, Kevin and their two little ones met us on the road.

One tray of finished cookies
Some of the decorators
Katie got to hold a baby.

The toppings
My bear



On the way home Katie's defrost had trouble keeping up with the freezing rain/whatever else the weather was doing.


Lots of stopping to scrape--and we had to go around the long way and not over the pass.


But! It was Mark's birthday and we met him at Airport Pizza for cheese sticks and a couple beers.

More later.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

FORT and night before FORT

Last week Michael and I started talking about making a snowfort. He's from Alabama and has never done such a thing.Well, says I, no time like the present! I spent the week daydreaming about my snow chair with my initials in it and our snow fridge stocked with bevvies. This afternoon it came to fruition!
I did some xmas shopping at the craft fair, Bearing Song, and Anvil book store and then headed home. I was waiting for a text from Michael saying he was ready. Might as well bake some cookies for Aprille's cookie exchange while I wait! I used this recipe, kind of. They were AWESOME. I used 1/2 cup white and 1/2 cup brown sugar and instead of vanilla used 1/2 tsp molasses.
THEN we started on the snowfort.
This is the pile between our houses that will soon be a fort. Actually a cave. But fort is funner to say.

Uncle Todd (also Bama) me and Katie discussing logistics

Michael digging out. Beard's inside pushing snow out.


See?!
FORTifying the outside.

Steamy inside.
Michael and Katie
Uncle Todd worked his way in too and got a few snaps. His camera was flash happy. He's going to email the pics.
Most of the time Beard and Michael were taking turns digging out or were both inside digging out and Katie and I were piling snow on the top and sides. More work will be done tomorrow.

Here's some sun and moon pics from yesterday:

This in on the drive from town (where Katie and I tried to renew our chauffeurs' licenses) to NACTEC.

The colors made the mountains look not real.
Pictures never really seem how it really seemed.

Friday-after-session beers at Mark's new apt.
Brought to you by sunset.
That's frozen ocean.
And the moon wanted some attention.
Fine moon...we all see you...HELLO!

After all the snow activities, Beard and I cleaned up and went to Old St. Joe's for a comedy show based on David Sedaris's Santaland Diaries. Pretty funny. And then ditched out on drinks at Airport Pizza with the KNOMers. We were pooped, and cheap...I mean frugal.

TIME BACKWARD...continues. These are from yesterday morning--before I went to work. I like neighbor's xmas lights. Pre-sunrise.


Note planet and new hospital.

Saturday, December 11, 2010

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

sunrise



As promised, (I never break a facebook promise) here is the sunrise blog post. These pictures were taken between 11:30am and 1:30pm-ish. I woke up about quarter after 11 and ate lunch around 1:30 and took the pictures in between.

While internetting, I glanced to my right and saw the above photo. I thought, "Hey, I should take a picture of the sunrise today."
"I'll get a vertical snap, too, for good measure."
A bit later, "Huh, now it's half the sun. Cool."
"Where are you going, pal?'
Peek-a-boo!
Poof!
And....we're back.
Pretty light.
Hey Ginger! I just watched you poo.
Beard basking in the sunlight.