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Spring is springing
It's been above freezing during the daytime for about a week now, and the impact on the snow is quite noticeable ... much moreso in town than out here in Fox. After I finish this entry, I'm gonna take the dogs for a walk, if I don't fall through the trail too much. The driveway is still plenty solid, although I'm scared of what's going to happen when it finally goes, but our little network of trails around the property are starting to "bottom out", as we used to say when I was a kid.
We are now entering the phase of the Alaskan seasons known as break-up. Winter's last hurrah may very well have been the goddawful windstorm that we had this past weekend, with 50-mph gusts and pretty much nonstop hard wind for three days. Fairbanks rarely gets windstorms like that. Blew pieces off the boiler shed roof and bent our windowsill thermometer sideways (I finally went out this morning, got a shovel -- because it's too high off the ground for me to reach otherwise -- and bent it back). It also drifted the driveway so badly that we had to dig ourselves in and out to reach the highway for work and then get back home until the wind stopped. The sensible thing to do, I suppose, would be to park down at the bottom of the driveway and walk home, but we weren't that sensible.
I should stop calling it a driveway. It's half a mile long. It's a private road for all intents and purposes. Perhaps we should name it and put up road signs. Gravel Drive? Winding Way? Shoveling Nightmare Avenue?
I'm sick again. I can't believe it. I had such a bad cold that I was out of work for a WEEK -- I swear it was flu, but I eventually went to the doctor and got tested for influenza, strep and other crud, and didn't have any of it. Now Orion has infected me with another cold just as I was getting over that one. It ain't fair, I tell you.
Okay, it's much too nice outside to be parked at my computer. I'm gonna go enjoy it.
We are now entering the phase of the Alaskan seasons known as break-up. Winter's last hurrah may very well have been the goddawful windstorm that we had this past weekend, with 50-mph gusts and pretty much nonstop hard wind for three days. Fairbanks rarely gets windstorms like that. Blew pieces off the boiler shed roof and bent our windowsill thermometer sideways (I finally went out this morning, got a shovel -- because it's too high off the ground for me to reach otherwise -- and bent it back). It also drifted the driveway so badly that we had to dig ourselves in and out to reach the highway for work and then get back home until the wind stopped. The sensible thing to do, I suppose, would be to park down at the bottom of the driveway and walk home, but we weren't that sensible.
I should stop calling it a driveway. It's half a mile long. It's a private road for all intents and purposes. Perhaps we should name it and put up road signs. Gravel Drive? Winding Way? Shoveling Nightmare Avenue?
I'm sick again. I can't believe it. I had such a bad cold that I was out of work for a WEEK -- I swear it was flu, but I eventually went to the doctor and got tested for influenza, strep and other crud, and didn't have any of it. Now Orion has infected me with another cold just as I was getting over that one. It ain't fair, I tell you.
Okay, it's much too nice outside to be parked at my computer. I'm gonna go enjoy it.