Alaskana

June 29, 2009

Pioneer Peak Over Palmer Alaska

I was on my way home from putting up signs this evening and saw this view. If you look close, there are two rainbows. Alaskan […]
April 16, 2009

Wasilla Tea Party

The Wasilla Tea Party was extremely well attended yesterday. There were close to 1,000 people at the event in the middle of the afternoon. That’s […]
January 1, 2009

Happy New Year, Jan 1, 2009

Happy New Year! Wishing you a warm and joyous New Year. If we have much more of this global warming we are going to freeze […]
December 30, 2008

Moose Boxes

I got this email from a fellow realtor today: I received a call from my mother today asking for help removing a freezer from her driveway.  […]
October 26, 2008

Snow Day…earliest yet

The Chugach Mountains over Palmer were beautiful in today’s late afternoon sun.  Gerrit had been asking to get the old Skidoo Elan out for more than […]
September 9, 2008

You know You Are An Alaskan When:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a motor home on the highway. 2. “Vacation” means going to Anchorage […]
June 27, 2008

Redneck Fishing

While many anglers were debating which streamer to use on the Russian River, and the purists were choosing between their eight or nine weight fly rod, […]
June 11, 2008

Off The Grid In Alaska

People have been producing their own energy in Alaska for long time.  The photo to the left, of Holikachuk in the 1950s, shows two wind […]