The Wonderful Things We Have Learned....SO FAR!

#1   You don’t need a freezer to keep a turkey frozen in Alaska.  The snow outside works great!  Just don't forget that you left the turkey there for over a week?  Oops!  But yep, still frozen.  Took two days to thaw.  It was 23 lbs.  HUGE!

     


#2  Your kid can look like a minion.  It will truly make you giggle every day, and others.

#3    Buses are called PEOPLE MOVERS here.  That's right.  Makes me laugh seeing the signs for "People Mover Stops".

#4  You are always driving on ice…several layers of it…inches!  I am so dang slow here.  I am not yet used to my car or the ice.  I feel like a grandma humming along at the own pace.  But, I am safe! Wink Wink!  At least that is what I chant to myself.

                             

#5    Sledding is super awesome!  We do it daily for several hours.  But that may change because the temperature is dropping as I type.  So long 20's and 30's and welcome to the teens and below.  Perhaps some indoor time is due?

   
This is after school eventhough it looks dark.  Still daytime.  But, we are now gaining 5 minutes a day!!!!

 #6  Sometimes you are left with some great trees out your window.  Don't know if the previous tenant forgot this...but I LOVE IT!
                                                           
#7  Kids have fun and play outside no matter the temperature or weather conditions.

#8   School and church will NEVER get cancelled for weather (until we move here and both are cancelled in the same week!)  Ha ha ha!
#9  If you don’t place your tree ALL the way into the base, it will fall over at 6:50 in the morning when there is an earthquake 20 miles away.  We didn't feel the earthquake, but the barely holding on tree did and down it went.

SECOND ATTEMPT POST FALL.  MUCH LOWER TO THE GROUND NOW!

FIRST ATTEMPT...TO HIGH AND TOP HEAVY...OOPS!

#10  There is hope for me to complete my quilt that I started 8 years ago.  There is a quilting group that meets every Thursday.  Thanks to a great friend...I now know that the quilt I have been hand stitching years is called Grandmothers flower garden pattern.  I saw someone making one at a dental convention and duplicated her pattern and then I started making it.  Slowly but surely it is coming together.  The pattern dates back to the 1800's in England.  It was more popular in the depression era.  Here's to hoping it will be completed before next Christmas! 

#11   A clarinet reed will still work after being in storage for some 20 years.  That's right.  We found my clarinet in the move.  We opened it up and suprisingly there was a reed inside.  We wetted it and it worked.  The kids have had so much fun with it.   We have even bought a beginners book also.
#12  The ocean is totally frozen with bergs floating in it.  Crazy surreal stuff until I saw it with my own eyes and watched it float to the ice pack.  It's real!
                      


#13Cold stone is still delicious in the cold.  I'ts true...the kids ask to go every single day.  They are nuts.
#14 Mail will make it to you even in Alaska during December...Thank you all!  So fun.  We will send out our new contact stuff for the new year...if I get it together by then.

#15  My family can look like geeks WAY too easily!  So funny!  I think I spot Grampy in there too?

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