12.16.23 Saturday
Snowfall: 73.0" (6.08 feet)
Mouse Trapline Tally: 7
(Total to-date for this year!)
Hello again! Well, I promised snow machine pictures the last time we "talked", so here goes...
Me on Daisy...
Playing on the "pond"...
Kevin on Samson...
Samson is a beast!...
More random thoughts today...
When we went into town last week, I took this awesome picture of Denali, the highest mountain on the North American continent..
We had gone in to get diesel cans filled and Kevin was pulling about 450 lbs so this picture was taken from the upper freight trail. Always another option when heading in and out with heavy loads!
Our water line to the house froze a month or so ago so we've been having to go down to the spring and fill water tanks with water, then haul them back up the hill and fill tanks in the house...
Late this summer I ordered an old-fashioned sign for our soon-to-be generation shed...
Here's the story behind it....When Kevin and I met, we always dreamed of living off-grid and not having to pay an electric bill. So when we moved in here, he would fire up the generator and announce "K & T Electric is now online!" We met in 2012 which is when the first "spark" started, thus the sign....😉 The guy did a really nice job!
Changing the subject....Can I just say that it takes a lot of time to plan gifts for our loved ones and friends at Christmas? Each year, I try to put a lot of thought into the gifts and make sure that they are meaningful and/or helpful to the recipient. I usually make several of them, too. This year, I actually got done early with all the gifts, had them wrapped and in shipping boxes ready to ship. Then we got a little weather, snow, then super cold, and we weren't able to get to town to ship them. Well, the deadline was yesterday to make sure that everything arrived where it should before Christmas. We woke up and it was ZERO degrees and snow was on the way (only 1-3", they said, so no big deal, right?) The cold is what was holding us up! I was super disappointed that it looked as though everyone's gifts were going to be late, when Kevin started getting suited up...As it was, it was only 10 degrees and a white-out going in on the trail. Then we had to dig the car out of the snow and make sure we didn't get stuck in the parking lot. Then we decided to run a couple of other errands while we were in town and it was STILL white-out conditions and the roads were were crappy! We finally got everything shipped and back on the trail, all the while the snow is still coming down pretty hard. I'll admit, I'm getting some serious trail time on the snow machine and it's making me a better driver. Who knew that gawky city girl from Kansas could handle a snow machine in Alaska in the dead of winter??
Yep, who knew?? Stay wild! 😎