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Awe and Wonder
On the radio Jerry Lee Lewis is singing "You Are My Sunshine" and Tom, the volunteer DJ just said, we have to "make our own sunshine" until that "golden orb" that's up there somewhere returns. April was so warm and sunny, that I guess May decided to make up for it....
More Wave News
Here is a good article from the Anchorage Daily News. They say Haines will probably be fine, but that weird currents from the tsunamis can be dangerous, and it is not a good afternoon to be in a kayak or skiff, so be careful. As for me, Chip and I walked down to the...
Tsunami News
My neighbor Betty didn't call early this morning when her weather radio tsunami warning alarm went off, since it didn't sound like we would get one, at least not right away, and she knows I like to sleep until seven on Saturdays and then listen to "Wait Wait Don't...
LeConte Lock Out
Yesterday at lunchtime coyotes ran through the neighborhood. My husband saw one standing in a driveway on Cemetery Hill and the pack run down by River Road. Be careful with pets. I didn't see the coyotes because I was on the ferry. All day. I had been in Juneau...
First Review
The first pre-publication review for Take Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs is in, from Kirkus Reviews. And... drum roll please... "Wife, mother of five and a winsome reporter on people old and young, including dear friends, stalwart citizens and brave...
Blame it on the Sun
Paul and Annie said it must have been 50 degrees on top of Mt. Ripinsky Saturday, and Dr. Feldman said he walked all the way to Pyramid Island without getting water in his boots Sunday. (We walked almost to the airport the day before with the dogs.)The tide was out...
Smoking Snowshoes
The other day someone called the fire department because there was smoke coming from the woods out by 7 Mile on the Haines Highway. When the fire department got there they looked at the deep snow between them and the fire, which was about a quarter mile up the slope...