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Penguin Issues, News

4/29/2019

A good morning to all from Moose Pass, Alaska. Clear skies, 50 degrees and no snow at our elevation. Though it has been said that our mountains received over 4 feet of snow during last week's snowfall.

Snowy River, which comes out of a series of massive glaciers to our south and feeds the famous Kenai Lake is at an extreme low. We haven't seen the river this low in the last 18 years, leaving mud flats between some of the bodies of water.

Barn Raising, News

4/27/2019

It's beginning to feel like spring now, with all the previous snow melted away at our elevation and the sun shining so brightly by 6 a.m. We're gaining about 7 minutes of sunlight per day as we approach summer solstice on June 21st. Gardens will soon begin sprouting and the grass growing, which means I still need to get a lawnmower. we've gone through a lot of lawnmowers over the years.

Declaring War with Canada, Stray Cat

4/24/2019

YES! After a week of light and heavy snow, I woke up this morning to bright sunshine, clear skies and quite a beautiful day. Mountains remain covered in deep snow and it will probably be July before their snow has disappeared. For the taller Alps-like mountain tops the snow will remain and this makes for quite a scenic backdrop for photographers. Not sure if I said anything in the last journal, but our wayward cat-Titania, has returned.

Cops Wife, Stray Bullets

4/22/2019

Well, it happened again, another 8 inches of wet heavy snow, followed by two days of light flurries. Now it's all gone, melted and we wonder if our winter is truly over... or not. Alaska, a strange and wonderful land, I truly love it. As most of you know from reading my journals. I can still remember fighting tooth and nail to get out of my orders to come here and I'm sure glad that didn't happen.

Alcohol and Dying, Minor Consuming to Murder

4/18/2019

Woke-up yesterday morning to an inch of new snow on the ground. It was 40 degrees when we went to bed and then a storm moved in, but all melted by today. This morning a fog bank has closed in on our part of Moose Pass, normal for this time of year as we live so close to the lake. Hope to see the sun by noon. This from your friendly Moose Pass weather forecaster.

White Nationalism

4/15/2019

"Oh, what a beautiful morning...Oh, what a beautiful day..." Opening lines for the well-known song from the play, or movie, "Oklahoma". But, I just had to say it as this morning is just glowing with radiance. Each morning I think the Lord for bringing me to Alaska, when I was trying so hard to remain on the Mojave Desert in California. I'd gotten out of overseas orders to Guam and Japan, but I just wouldn't be released from my orders to Alaska. Someone in the Air Force decided 4.5 yrs at Edwards was enough and sent me north. God bless them. Within two weeks of arriving, and this was February, I had fallen in love with our 49th state and now working on my 42nd year in this beautiful and wild land.

122 Below Zero Windchill

4/12/2019

Yes, it is actually trying to snow today, mixed with rain that began yesterday. Rather unusual for April, but up here we've even seen snow in June and have had above freezing temperatures in January. This all makes life interesting and a reminder to always keep survival gear in your car for long trips. You just never know what might be up ahead and one can drive for miles without ever seeing any habitation, a service station or sometimes another motorist. That old scout motto, "Be prepared" really works up here. But, it is the Alaskan wilderness that draws many of us up here, or keeps us here. We love the freedom Alaska offers and of course, no state income or sales taxes- not yet anyway.

Wild Dogs, Asteroid Belt

4/9/2019

A cool windy day here in Moose Pass, with a bit of rain last night. Now if it would only blow hard enough to drive all my leaves out of my yard and into the empty lots nearby. Just got through wandering about the property for my daily exercise, figuring out what to do with what to get rid of and what to keep. A favorite past time of mine.

Hell's Angels, Kittens Are More Important Than Human Babies?

4/5/2019

Woke up with the sun for another glorious April morning here in Moose Pass, with a bit of a haze and a few clouds off to the north, over Anchorage and Whittier. Hope to get a bit of raking done today, now that the snow has vanished and last fall's leaves have been left. We usually pile them up and use them for compost, the hard part is keeping our ankle biter brigade of small dogs out of the compost. They go in search of our kitchen scraps we add to the pile and I will probably have to put up some sort of fence this summer.

Did Aliens Take The Moose?

4/3/2019

Greetings. This has been a wonderful week, with cloudless skies and mild temperatures, and a car to drive. The mountains are as beautiful as ever, covered in white, backed by such blue skies, it almost makes one forget the winter we have had. April and May are often our best months, before the rainy season hits and the mosquitoes rise up to conquer the land. What has been strange is the lack of moose and bear, for I haven't seen one of either since last fall. Now the bear, they're prone to stay up on the mountainsides, where they dig out their little varmints for food and come down when the fish start running. But the lack of moose has me wondering if they'd all been picked up by aliens?