Yep, we’re having fun now. We have earthquakes and plagues of mosquitoes and hurricane force winds and hungry bears wandering in the streets and now we have an erupting volcano. I’ll never understand why more people don’t want to live here.
A question that must be asked
Why can’t car makers come up with windshield wipers that clean the entire window? I mean, we put a man on the moon, right? How much harder could this be?
Only in Alaska
A robin died in my backyard. I saw the dogs sniffing around it and picked it up and put it on my front deck for nature to do its own version of recycling. When I came home from my dental cleaning, I saw two ravens fighting over it where it had fallen off my front deck onto my driveway. I had no sooner focused on what they were fighting over when an eagle swooped in. Both ravens took off in a heartbeat, one carrying the remnants of the dead robin in its mouth, followed closely by the eagle.
And people
Lions and tigers and volcanoes, oh my!
Redoubt blew again, the ash is falling on Anchorage, there are high wind advisories for my little piece of town… possibly up to 80 mph gusts tomorrow… and I wonder again how anyone could want to live anywhere else.
She continues on the dignity train
I head to the closet closest to the outside door and pull out my winter walking coat. Instantly both dogs come to attention. Blondie runs up the two steps to the landing next to the door knowing that I want her there to attach her leash. Blue has her head, as usual, stuck under a bird cage foraging for leftovers. She glimpses me putting my coat on and comes over and starts barking. But not her usual OHMYGODICAN’TBELIEVESHE’SACTUALLYTAKINGUSFORAWALKITSBEENALMOSTTWENTY-FOURHOURSSINCETHELASTONE bark. This was different. She’d bark twice, then frantically mover her lower jaw up and down in some odd chewing fashion. Two
Dignity is as dignity does
Blue lies at my feet in the bathroom in the morning as I take my AM constitutional. She carefully licks each paw and leg clean after having eaten her breakfast and indulged in her own constitutional. As she lies there so very carefully licking each paw, her head and neck are covered with the hulls of bird seeds from sticking her head under the cage to get any stray crumb the bird might have dropped. I guess you can be dignified with a head full of bird seed for so long as you don’t have a mirror.
Is the future dim for small Native villages in Alaska?
I thought the placement of two letters in the Letters to the Editor section of the paper last Thursday was very interesting. One letter spoke to the need for training Alaska Natives so they can take some of the thousands of jobs available through their corporations and their corporations’ subsidiaries. The hitch to shareholders getting those jobs, aside from the training component, was the fact that they are often spread across the entire world, many thousands of miles from the village the shareholder calls home.
The very next letter was about the silence emanating from the Native corporations and other
Who was it?
Thoughts that come to one’s mind in the middle of the night when one can’t sleep….
Who was it that first thought up the idea of waxing pubic hair? And why do I think it was a man?
Mt. Redoubt
The last time Redoubt exploded, I was on my way to the East Coast for Christmas. It was twenty years ago, my mother was still alive and Janis was still living in Anchorage with her family. I ended up staying at her house for a week as flight after flight got canceled. It being the holidays, rebooking after each cancellation became more and more of a nightmare. I finally found a circuitous route to Philadelphia and arrived on Christmas Eve. By the time I got from Philly to Atlantic City, it was 9 PM. My mother had already served Christmas
Here’s what’s really scary
What I find scariest of all about the AIG bonus debacle is that these executives are so tone deaf and out of touch that they apparently thought either no one would notice or no one would care or no one could touch them. And these are supposed to be the bright people the company wants to retain to rebuild itself. Do they really think the entire American population is that stupid? What is wrong with this picture?