Dave Johnson of Fishhook Realty questions my weather forecasting abilities in his comments on my last post officially announcing spring. Look at them, the geese, cranes and ducks are still there under about 4 inches of fresh snow on the Palmer Experimental Farm fields. It really is spring! If that doesn’t mean it’s spring, I don’t know what does. … read more →
A couple weeks ago I announced that spring had come. Since then we have had temperatures down to 10 degrees and several good sized snow storms. So much for my weather forecasting abilities. But now, someone else has made it official. The geese are on the fields in Palmer. We look forward to the geese arriving there every spring on their way to the nesting grounds and also note the… read more →
A couple weeks ago I announced that spring had come. Since then we have had temperatures down to 10 degrees and several good sized snow storms. So much for my weather forecasting abilities. But now, someone else has made it official. The geese are on the fields in Palmer. We look forward to the geese arriving there every spring on their way to the nesting grounds and also note the… read more →
Alaska Is Huge Every spring I get inquiries from people “outside” who have never been to Alaska about finding a piece of their Alaskan dream. They want to buy a chunk of Alaska where they can have peace and privacy. They know Alaska is big so they expect to get at least 10–100 acres of beautiful wilderness. Of course, they also expect this to come with maintained roads, electricity, and… read more →
Alaska Is Huge Every spring I get inquiries from people “outside” who have never been to Alaska about finding a piece of their Alaskan dream. They want to buy a chunk of Alaska where they can have peace and privacy. They know Alaska is big so they expect to get at least 10–100 acres of beautiful wilderness. Of course, they also expect this to come with maintained roads, electricity, and… read more →
Whew! We made it through another winter. I’m officially declaring today the last day to worry about home freeze-ups this winter. One thing that I think a lot of us Alaskans ignore is that we are extremely vulnerable to natural or man-made disasters. Almost all of us are tied to “the grid”. We are dependent on the electrical grid and the natural gas distribution system. If we have a large… read more →