SNOW!!!

It is finally dumping snow in Anchorage!!! After loooong dry spell with about 2" of snow in October (and no rain after the 10th), 3" of snow in November and basically not a single cloud in the sky from November 15 through December 7 (doesn't sound so bad until you remember that at -15 with no clouds you get ice fog instead!), we finally got a bit of snow this weekend. It started snowing on Saturday afternoon and we got a couple inches that night with just a dusting the next couple days as well. Then last night a big storm moved in and not only is it still dumping snow, but as of 8 AM Tikishla Park (kitty corner from our house) had the highest measured snowfall in town! Hooray!!!

A post for the first time in awhile...

Sometimes something happens that obviously deserves to be the next post written, but for some reason that writing doesn't happen. Meanwhile, other posts back up behind it, but you can't write about them because its not their turn. A perfect example of this is when I got married - am I really going to write a post about grilling burgers on the 4th of July when I still haven't written anything about my wedding? But then again, how can I possibly sum up the biggest day of my life, crossed with a family reunion, crossed with seeing friends from grad school, college, high school... all in a few paragraphs with maybe a dozen photos? I've got time to write about one, but not the other, so I just can't write about anything for awhile.

I've had one of those brewing since last summer, which is a work-related legal matter where, for a variety of reasons, my opinion doesn't need to be published online. But to get it out of the way I thought I'd just put up some links to the local paper:

Article 1: State, Landowner Reach Impasse Over Road


Article 2: State Sues Over Blocked Road


Article 3: Property Owner Says Coal May Be Motive For Blocking Road

There! Now maybe I can write about sinkholes, windstorms and whether or not Anchorage will ever see another cloud, let alone a snowflake!