Our Tribute to the Military

Well we have put a lot of thought into designing the graphics that we put on the bike and Dave gave some input as well as a couple others.  It was a struggle trying to decide what should stay and what should go, what exactly is the statement I was trying to make with it.

There was a lot of thought about my family, Dave's family, ones living and ones past.  I thought to myself, we have a very long tradition of military service in our family dating all the way back to the civil war on my dad's side of the family, and Dave and pretty much his entire immediate family has served.  With all of our family we have lost people dear to us, either through military service or the after affects of being in combat.

My thoughts went to Ron Ridenhour, my Uncles, my Grandfather, my cousins, Daves Aunts, Uncles, Cousins, My Boys (yes Jason and Brandon I think of you as my boys) our Ashley and all the other family and friends who have served over the years. A special thank you to Marlene and Bob from Dave, as he feels with your guidance and support in influencing him towards the military and throughout his life,  he feels you made his life so much better.

So many people impacted us and influenced us along the way, we just wanted to say how thankful we are to each and every one of you.  We thought no better way to do this than being very loud and proud with it.  So THANK YOU, to everyone.  We love you all very much.

Aurora Borealis

We have had some amazing nights here the last few weeks. The Northern Lights have been keeping up at nights! I just can't seem to either go to bed or stay in bed knowing the skies are clear enough to see the Aurora. There has been several days with activity on the sun that creates enough energy sent to earth to create some spectacular displays. Here are some from the house and a few from Hatchers Pass. For those of you that have been up to visit, you should remember Hatchers is the area just north of the house. Enjoy. As always you can click on any picture to make it bigger.

 Look in the middle of the picture, I think it's a shooting star or maybe a satellite.

More SNOW?!?!

Ok so the King of the snow mountain is fast becoming our house and Dave, it's ruler.  I know I live in Alaska, don't we have snow all year round? Don't we all live in Igloo's and drive dog sleds or ride snow machines everywhere we go????? Ok you got me some of us actually do, well not the live in Igloo parts but the rest of it, yes it is true.  However this woman is getting a bit cranky about our latest snow, tired of the white stuff, yep you heard me.  Now Dave, the abominable snowman, LOVES this stuff and it does make for a great race season, but come on, enough is enough!  My flowers at this rate won't know spring hit until all the snow melts in August at this rate.  HA HA!! Besides we have already established you can't ride motorcycles in the snow, not even the three wheeled monster I have, it hates the snow!!

I am dreaming of sunshine, GREEN grass, COLORFUL flowers and other things that don't come in, oh I don't know, any color other than WHITE, and no Dave brown or grey snow does NOT count.

As you can tell I have spring fever, also know as cabin fever, or snow machiner's wife's blues.  I am ready for the long days of summer, nothing like 24 hours of sun light to grow the worlds largest pumpkins and sun flowers, right?! Oh and did I mention I can ride my motorcycle then?? Yep spring fever.  I started cleaning the house yesterday and even thought hmmmm maybe I will open the windows to let in some fresh air, good idea right? Apparently not a good idea with the temperature hovering around 8 degrees, yep almost put the house plants into shock over that little adventure and the house just smelled like snow after that, and we know that I get plenty of that smell right now.  So needless to say my feeble attempt at a hint to mother nature did not work as it then snowed 6 inches that night.  I think she is telling me that nope you are NOT going to be seeing spring anytime soon!!

Oh well, guess I will just keep longingly looking at my gardening books and thinking about what kind of landscaping I can add to Davey's honey doo list this spring, he he he he!!!

Miss you all!! Pray for warmer weather, it will be our secret, I promise!!

Anchorage Seasonal Snowfall

Well we are up to 119.9 inches of snow so far this season in Anchorage. We are now just 13 inches from breaking the old record. Keeping my fingers crossed. I figure if your going to get this much snow you might as well set a record. In Palmer, at our house we have only had 66.8 inches of snow this year. In Anchorage we have 36 inches piled up on the ground right now and only about 15 inches out in Palmer. The last 4 months we have been in the top ten for snowiest months for each month. Sorry about taking all the snow from the lower 48 this year.