Tolerance and love are hard.
And in Alaska news…
In Alaska news, Charlo Greene lost her court case and was evicted from her store. She ran a “social club” that centered on pot. But that’s not the strange part. The strange part is that she lost out to the downstairs business which indulged in BSDM… an apparently alternative lifestyle. I’ll leave you to figure those initials out. I got a headache just reading about it.
Yesterday was another horrible day so I went out and did something to make me happy
I bought a heating pad for my arthritic dog to complement her pain meds. She is now much happier than she’s been in a long time. And she’s warmer than living things usually are in my house. So there is one creature on this earth that had a good day yesterday.
It gets harder and harder
It gets harder and harder to view Islamic extremists as fellow humans. I want to not lose that ability because I don’t want to become one of them. But it’s harder every day to not just be so angry that I want us to go to the mid-east with bombs and keep bombing until it is a virtual wasteland.
In Bush Alaska, basketball rules all
Congratulations are in order for the boys and girls Barrow Whaler basketball teams. They both did extremely well in their respective tournaments. For anyone who has lived in Alaska for longer than ten minutes without figuring this out, let me make it perfectly clear to you that basketball is to Bush Alaska what football is to all of Texas. It is king.
For the kids lucky enough to have the talent to play, basketball can be a way out of town for some mall roving and movie going. It is also a strong impetus to stay in high school. The
So let’s see what our choices are…
Anchorage is having the kind of winter that gives winter a bad name. Our choices for weather seem to be below freezing weather followed by rain followed by more below freezing weather so that all the rain is now sheer ice, making every attempt to walk outside an unmitigated disaster waiting to happen. Today is freezing. Tomorrow we’re supposed to get freezing rain. I may just go to sleep until spring. Then I can wake up and see how many of my perennials died because there was no snow cover to protect the roots from the freezing ice.
Living in
Breathe in deeply
Center yourself. Breathe deeply. Accept what is coming. There is nothing you can do about it. The US Congress is back in session. Let the horror begin.
Orange
The unwanted red headed step child of colors.
Snowy my protector
Snowy barked until 2 AM on New Year’s Eve, protecting me from every bang outside by racing frantically around the house barking at every door and window he could find. In between the barking, he’d jump on the bed and sit with his back towards me in a very protective stance. He would not lay down. Just sat there guarding me. BuddhaBubba, on the other hand, snored through everything. I don’t think she hears very well anymore. And Carm just lifted his head every once in a while and barked half-heartedly when he heard Snowy barking but mostly wanted to
As I sat reading
As I sat in my bed reading the other night, the wind started howling and the temps moved steadily up the gauge. I thought at that time that I should have been more specific when I complained to god about the boring winter she’d sent us here in Anchorage. I wanted a good blizzard, snow swirling, cars sliding, heads bent low trying to walk to the car through deep drifts. I did NOT mean a rain storm. For goodness sake, it’s friggin’ January in Anchorage!