Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Here are two nice sisters we work with in our after school program. They are the the daughters of our maintenance man and our junior high teacher's aide.
This was taken about 8:30 p. m. so the days are lighter for much longer now. 
The dog is going under the  neighbor's house to find shelter out of the blizzard.
Some moose in Anchorage.
Susan and a student with their new stick fishing pole. 

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

To read this picture story start at the bottom and go up. Oh, we did find the other boy in a blizzard of snow created by his shoveling. 
There are about six steep stairs. You can see the angle of the railing.
One of our students starting work on the project. There is another boy somewhere below in the snow that is 5' high at the bottom of the stairs. 
Susan and dog stood here to give you a scale to measure the snow.
I checked if your back door lock had thawed recently and this is what I found when I opened the door.....

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Enough snow, already. We are having another blizzard today. It started last night and continued off and on today. All the trails through the drifts are filled again. I have to walk through them and get all wet when I go inside. If you happen to step where there is no boardwalk you immediately sink in to your waist. You have to roll to get out and hope no one sees you. Once one of our women teachers went down off the boardwalk and showed up with her nostrils full of snow. We tried to re-enact that and just could not get that to happen again. PS. The lady recovered, but gets inquiries about her nose all the time. Like she is sniffing the wrong white powder.
Sharky in his winter attire. I think it is his paws that get the coldest. Sometimes he has to find a way under our house to get out of the weather before he freezes solid. 
Playing kids. All of them are too young to be Susan's and my classes.
Susan made snow ice cream. It was sooo good. She had to go to Anchorage to for some tests. All is well and I am so happy about that. I don't know when she will be able to get back in though. Spring, maybe?
Don't walk under the snow armed with razor sharp ice cycles. Especially when the wind is blowing 60 mph. Course no one is walking around unless they have a little dog who has business outside. 

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Yes, we have had plenty of snow this year. This is a walkway to the emergency generator for the school. These are a couple of our Junior High students with Susan. The hoods always remind me of home(Blytheville). Our native children call hooded sweatshirts sweaters.
A road to nowhere. Well, maybe the airport. The days are much longer now. How about some heat, please?
Our principal sent Susan to the airport to take a couple of out-of-town accountants to their ride. We had just gotten another foot of snow which had drifted as high as the pickup hood. It took a loader to get Susan out. Yes, it is a 4-wheeled drive, Ford, and 2008.
I could have been falling off the chair in the hotel room in Anchorage where I was staying for a technology convention or maybe not... double exposure?
The technology conference lasted several days. I found I don't like crowds much anymore. Once at a buffet in convention room too small for the people in it, someone kind of  pushed me getting to the cream cheese pie and I was surprised myself with the response that came to my mind. It was a physical response accompanied with a verbal blast. Verbal blast, reminds me of Sonic. I did recover before either and left for some fresh Alaska air. Susan did not get to come with me, but I sure wish she had. It was a nice break from the village, once I got used to the pitiful pace and packed place.