Going for the Gusto

Big changes in the makings.....

Moving to Houston, Alaska!!!!

The Day Scrabble Died

On-Line that is. Merry Christmas from Hasbro.

http://www.lexulous.com/personal.php

Welcome to the Wake Zone

Swimming, the only sport with no half times, no subs, no timeouts and you only get 1 shot at your goal.

The calender on the right with puppy dog faces represents days we jumped in the pool the month of November.

The hardest part about swimming is the 5 minutes before.

Then its Welcome to the Wake Zone.

KitKat Cone

And I thought there was only one flavor of KitKat. “A massive collection, mostly from Japan, of every single wacky KitKat flavor every created. Includes banana!

Get Ready

Valdez Snow Report

67 inches of snow this month. 85 since Sept 1.

Daily Climate Summary - Valdez

Snowing Lightly

In black and white.

Sing Snap

http://www.singsnap.com/

Your Dinner's in the cupboard.

On line karoke?

Sing Snap is the biggest, baddest singing community in the world! Choose from over a million songs.

Sing along!

Snow Family Fotos

Thanks to June Dilley and the ADNs Snow Sports page.

Fish Taxi Tunes

Acid Tongue by Jenny Lewis

This girl can sing (reminds me of a young Joan Baez) with a great band behind her.

MARTHA WAINWRIGHT: Martha Wainwright

"Factory" brings me to my knees.

Both new to me great singer/songwriters found by listening to Radio Paradise.

Gas Up

Gassed up the other day. Only $3.27 in Valdez. Better than last summers Panic Button.

Snow Floats

Valdez Small Boat Harbor

Heartbreaker Again

Get the Led Out November 20th, 2007

Policing the Snow

2009 Models are Out

The Night they took ol' Ted Down

There are enough politcal blogs out there that I don't need to be writing one. I like to keep this blog light and snowy.

But, I am an almost 30 year Alaskan, and feel I need to speak my piece. The election is over so I am not trying to sway any reader to the left or right.

Everyone knows it doesn't matter whose in or out. Clear Channel owns 80% of the radio stations, McClatchy owns the newspapers, the Japanese own the movies and we own the internet?

Ted Stevens said the internet was a series of tubes. He was right. When you think about it. Legal pot smokers have a way of seeing the big picture more clearly and express simple things profoundly. If you are not stoned or have never been stoned, legally, you wouldn't understand.

Ted Stevens said that HAARP (General Information) was a study of the auroras. He was right. If you think about it. Ask Nikola Tesla.

Happy 85th Bithday to a great senator. Hey, Senator to-be Mark Begich, if laser eye surgery was around when Uncle Ted was senator, he wouldn't have needed glasses all those years. Hope you see the fine print young man.

Tangled Up in Blue

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/tangled-blue

Bob Dylans music website is awesome.

First Place Fish

By FishTaxi

I thought this was funny. It says its by FishTaxi but that is only me hosting it on ImageShack to get the movement.

Jill has a Book Out!

Buy The Book!

This girl can ride, write and take awesome pics. She puts studs on her bike and in all kinds of weather goes places. I've been following her blog since she lived in Homer. A young photo-journalist from Utah working her way up through the ranks.

Visit Jill Homer's Blog!


Thanks to Alaskan Girl for the heads up.

Go Jill!

Attack of the Icicles

Valdez has been getting their fair share of snow lately. These icicles are thermo coupling (Thermocouple definition) my house!

Bits and Pieces

How to tell if your cat is plotting to kill you from Bits & Pieces. A funny blog out of St. Louis.

Sun Going

After a full moon foot of snow.

Big Scrabble Word

Highest point word I have ever seen.

http://s15.photobucket.com/albums/a353/signifikancer/?action=view&current=oxyphenbutazone.jpg

http://www.lexulous.com/personal.php

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su3twdNzJoU

Have Camera

Will travel.

Every Day Is Veterans Day

Every day that a veteran dies our wings get clipped more. Its like we are all on restriction. Police the yard. Get your hands out of your pockets. Forget even one iota of original thought you had. It was tested illegal.

Proud to be among Veterans

Growing up American

Changed My Mind

Had a bad day yesterday. All the pictures/videos I put on my laptop (which has the new Windows Vista operating system) won't cooperate with me. For instance, the video below. The only way I could upload it was connect to the internet directly from my laptop after numerous attempts to simply burn a CD and upload it to my desktop failed. Is it me or is Vista not compatible with XP was my dillema yesterday. Then my laptop got a corrupt file from the picture program itself so now I'm running a scan disk and I hope that fixes it.

I slept on it and changed my mind about pulling the plug on this blog. I'll figure it out and continue taking pictures. Does anyone else have a problem with Vista?

This Blog is Done

It was fun while it lasted.

Do you have room

for an orphaned bear in your zoo?

This little black bear won't make it through the winter without human intervention.

Contact the Valdez City Animal Control at 907-835-4560 if you can help find a safe, warm home for this cute cub.

Movie Mode

Escaping to Fool's Gold.

Wylie Rogers Named CHL Goalie for October!

ROGERS NAMED CHL GOALIE OF THE MONTH FOR OCTOBER

Wylie is playing goalie for the KillerBees in Texas. The second biggest state in the union after being born and raised in the biggest state. He made a name for himself in Alaska playing 4 years at UAF and receiving his college education in his home state. This dedicated athlete is going places. Course I am biased. He's my nephew who got me interested in hockey and becoming a lifetime member of the UAF Face-Off Club. Still listen to the Nanook games on the internet. As far as I could find out the KillerBees games are not broadcasted outside of the Rio Grande area. This is from the story:

BRING YOUR RADIO
Bring your radio to the game and tune in to 93.5 FM for an in-arena feed of the play-by-play broadcast on Real Country 102.1 FM.

Loving the press releases though.



WAY TO GO WYLIE!!!

Field Day

Zipping

Sub-terainian See

Opening day King Crab season in the Bering Sea. Oct.15th, 2008

CAWB Brunch

My last picture of food from Cold Ass Windy Bay!

Soon there will be pics of all the glacier silt swirling around Valdez that I thought was fog. Once my head clears up.

Nice Cabinets

Fancy Doghouse

Spent all my smoke breaks out there. Took my logbook and penned while looking at the view. I believe in making your own conditions. I would write about what sounded good for dinner with what I had on hand. Stuff like that. I've kept logbooks from everywhere I go. Nothing like a brand new book with empty pages to fill up. Fun to look back on, too.

Chicken Spaghetti

Sounds horrible til you try it.


Edited to add recipe:

Boil spaghetti as usual

Cut up chicken breasts into bite size pieces and add to sauce below.

Open as many cans of cream of chicken, celery and mushrooms as needed to make a sauce to cover the noodles spread in bottom of a lasagne pan.

Top with grated cheese, mushrooms and black olives.

Bake an hour in a 350 degree oven.

Scoop out with big spoon. Serve with green salad and garlic bread.

Fish Food

Catch a fish

Cook a fish

Eat a fish.

Nothing like fresh out of the ocean coho salmon in October.

Ginger Duck

I made this Ginger Duck one night in Cold Bay. I marinated the duck in soy sauce and fresh grated ginger for a couple of hours. It turned out yummy. I like the Ginger Duck at our local chinese restaurant and tried to duplicate it.

Just been taking it easy at home. I have a bad cold so I'm not swimming. As soon as I feel better I can't wait to get back in the pool!

We have snow already. Winter is here.

Need Cigs

And quarters for laundry.

Air Mail

Friday Night Alaska Hockey

My Alaska Nanooks are playing the Bowling Green Falcons in Fairbanks tonight and Saturday night. Listen live on KSUA College Radio from the Carlson Center by clicking the Nanook logo on the right.

GO NANOOKS!!!!

Sarah Fishing

Snagged this pic from the Anchorage Daily News' Palin and Me gallery.

I'm home relaxing and unpacking. Its snowing slightly. Good day to stay put and burn a copy of my Cold Bay pictures on my laptop and upload them to my desktop. Sure feels good to be home.

Warthog Knife Sharpener

This thing has been my new best friend out here. I'm a terrible knife sharpener and this contraption works like a charm. A few swipes of the knife and I can cut anything. I am going to have to get one for myself now. WH Professional knife sharpener diamond knife sharpener ...

I've been taking lots of pictures and videos and have been messing around with Windows Movie Maker. When I get more time I will post them. In the meantime I'm still alive and working,,,thanks to the Warthog Knife Sharpener!

Some Days