Put your snow on the Road

This guy has the right idea. Scoop up all the snow out of your yard with a BobCat and put your accumulated snowfall on the road.

I call it Snow Manicuring.

Spring Snow

Photos by John Fischer Jr. Taken today in Valdez.

St. Baldricks Day

St. Baldricks Day is an annual fundraiser for Children With Cancer that the Valdez Firefighters put on every St. Patricks Day. People donate money by paying for the firefighters to get their heads shaved.

The suns going to shine in two more days

Happy st pats days
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Wylie Rogers Signs with the Utah Grizzlies!!

Wylie Rogers (G)
Utah Grizzlies

CONGRATULATIONS WYLIE!!!

Name:
Wylie Rogers
Number:
34
Pos.:
G
Shoots:
R
Height:
5-11
Weight:
190
Birthdate:
1985-03-16
Birthplace:
Fairbanks, Alaska

Wylie is playing his first game with the Utah Grizzlies tonight in Las Vegas against the Wranglers. He's sporting the same number he wore 4 seasons with the Alaska Nanooks! Visit the Grizzlies homepage for a link to tune into the game via internet radio here http://www.utahgrizzlies.com/home/ .

GO GRIZZLIES!!!!!

Full story here: Nanooks’ Rogers inks pro deal

Snowbank Smilie

A Valdez operator with a sense of humor imprinted a smilie face on one of the numerous snow piles in Valdez.

Happy 16th Birthday Dale!!

My little buddy, whom I've known since before he was born, turned BIG 16 today. I got him what he wanted, since you only turn 16 once, and that was this NorthFace snowmachine backpack. Last year I got him that fold up shovel sticking out of it.

Dale's birthday kicks off my favorite time of year.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DALE!!!

Yellow Cab

Valdez is blessed with only one cab company which is called Valdez Yellow Cab. None of the cabs are yellow any more. In the winter they drive a big 4wd crew cab. Color unknown.

Sitting in the Sun

Glad to report warm and sunny SPRING like days in Valdez. This was the view from the high school pool parking lot this evening.

No Name Pizza

Alaska Nanook Hockey Schedule/Results

End Alaska Daylight Savings TIme

Letter to the Editor in March 6 Anchorage Daily News


Insanity of daylight-saving time in Alaska must come to an end

Darlene Dubay's Compass piece about February in Alaska mentioned the natural gain of daylight that she notices ("Julia, you just don't appreciate the wonders of February," Feb. 26). I also appreciate the gentle nudge to my circadian rhythm in late winter and early spring as we gain several minutes of daylight each day.


However, in Juneau, a few powerful legislators are not into a gentle nudging of anything, including your gradual adjustment to hours of daylight and darkness. Again, at 2 a.m. on Sunday, they will demand that you change your clock by one hour so that we, who live in the "land of the midnight sun," can participate in the insanity of daylight-saving time.


Since 1999 legislation to end the use of DST has been defeated by individual committee chairmen on four occasions. The last two "actors" to kill repeal legislation were Sen. Con Bunde (refused to hold a single hearing on SB 120, 2005-2006) and Rep. Kevin Meyer (canceled hearing on HB 176).


In 2006, several of us Alaskans pursued an initiative petition. Thousands of Alaskans did sign the initiative petition. However, with only volunteer help and limited funding, we could not participate effectively in the current initiative process.


More about this issue, including the legislative history, is available at our Web site. You can Google "End Alaska Daylight Saving Time."


-- Lynn Willis
Eagle River


I googled it and you can find it here Welcome to End Alaska Daylight Saving Time.

Happy in the Rain

THe snow has turned to rain for a while.

Alaska Halibut House

A good place to go eat in Valdez is MacMurrays' Alaska Halibut House. They are open all winter when a lot of the places close down. We went there today for lunch. I reccommend the halibut sandwich with fries. Their tartar sauce is made in the house and is great. They make it like I do with just a tad bit of horseradish. I like to dip my fries in tartar sauce. I got turned onto that when I lived in Washington State. Been hooked ever since. My friend got the butterfly deep battered prawns and according to her "the best milkshake in town". Not only that its the only place to get a milkshake in Valdez in March.

Ugly Rockfish

http://static.flickr.com/29/63386202_6077121627.jpg

Last night I was playing Scrabble online with a gal from British Columbia. We got to chatting about my favorite subject and got along great. We were even steven playing the games and her, being only an hour ahead of Alaska time, was a lot of fun. We talked fish recipes, fish wars and about all the fish in the sea.

When she asked me if I wanted to see an ugly rockfish I said yes. Thankyou ANGIE!

Snow Cave

We've been getting about a half a foot of snow a day this month. March is a snowy month in Valdez.

Snowbank Advertising

Flying Snow

When it isn't snowing in Valdez, the city crews take that time to get ready for the next snowfall.

As of 2 o'clock today 5.5 inches of new snow fell.

201.5 inches of snow so far this year according to the Daily Climate Summary - Valdez.

Ride into the Sunset

A group of local Valdez snowmachiners hauled therr machines up to Thompson Pass and took off towards the Copper River last Saturday.


Photos by Russell Roetman

legal beagles

no seatbelts required

How did you get here?

Tower Spotting

Spotted this immature eagle hanging out on top of the KCHU public radio FM repeater.

Weather Matrix

This is cool. WeatherMatrix caught up with me on a google search and linked to me in a story on his website.

From the Matrix>>NOTE: Clearly, they have not found the trick that we use here in Central Pennsylvania (a place where you rarely get enough snow to hid a hydrant): attaching flags that can be seen above the snow. Oddly enough, we seem to be the only people doing this - I couldn't find evidence of this outside of Alaska on Google. If you have flags on your hydrants, email me.<<

Since then he's got lots of emails of townships with flags on their fire hydrants so they can find them when needed. He also corrected his mistake of identifying the town in question as Madison, Wisconson. The snowed in town that couldn't find its fire hydrants was in fact Green Bay, Wisconsin. Go Packers!!

Beautiful Weekend

Except I was sick with a cold all weekend and missed out of the beautiful bluebird days. Then today I started getting a sore throat and by tonight I can't talk, my nose is running, plugged up and itches until I have a sneezing fit. arrgh

Everybody has had it and it was a matter of time before I caught it. I'm drinking lots of water and Campbell's chicken noodle soup.

I don't know if I'll will work tomorrow or not.

Change is Good

The sun is high in the sky making for longer days. Leaving the winter darkness behind once again.

Got this off the Public Information Office trooper dispatch this morning and thought it was kind of funny.

Location: Juneau
Case Number: 08-13161
Type: Assault IV
Text: On 2-19-08, Juneau AST received a complaint from an inmate at the Lemon Creek Correctional Center that he had been assaulted by another inmate. Investigation found that inmate John Ryan Borglund, age 32 had physically assaulted inmate Charles Fischer, age 41 after they argued over a game of SCRABBLE.
Charges will be forwarded to the Juneau DAO.
Author: MED9
Received Friday, February 22, 2008 11:22 AM and posted Friday, February 22, 2008 11:53 AM


SCRABBLE can be vicious at times!

Banner Year

Dipnetters post banner year at Chitina


CRAIG MEDRED / Daily News archive 2004

Dipnetter David Predger of Anchorage gets to the business of cleaning salmon along the Copper River near Chitina. Predeger was with a group of five who caught just over 100 salmon in a morning of dipping.


KELLY BOSTIAN / Fairbanks Daily News-Miner archive


Shin Suzuki of Anchorage shows off the king salmon he caught dipnetting in the Copper River at Chitina.





At this time of year I like to dream about the Copper River Reds that are coming back this summer.

Never can have too many CRR's in the can.

Moving Ice

Valdez has been pouring down rain and its really ugly out there right now. If it was snowing we would have recorded 5 feet.

This video is from the Anchorage Daily News of the tide changing in Cook Inlet.

Moving Ice

Watch my Back

The eagles are hungry at this time of year. Not a lot to eat except other birds like seagulls. Its also mating season coming up. Lots of eagle action going on. In the top picture you can see the eagle on the Eagles building steeple in the distance. The Eagles building used to be the old movie theatre in the 60s and 70s. The parents went to the bar upstairs while the kids watched movies downstairs. I'm thinking about joining the Eagles club. Since there is no American Legion or Moose Lodge in Valdez.

scrabble head

Rainy days and snowy nights.

You can always find a game at

www.Scrabulous.com

Addicting.

Snow Piling Up

Current Conditions

Spotted Eagle

Theres been a bald eagle convention going on in town.

Spotted

Wheres the Moose Lodge?

Standing Tall

This little girls shoes had rollers on the bottom in the front.

Future winter Olympic sport.

Only in Alaska.

Climb That Roof