Here are pictures from our Christmas Eve. We spent the afternoon at Miss Rose's house baking cookies and watching movies, before going to church that evening. Christmas Miss Rose came over to feast and watch movies.
Thank To Pop and Gmom from the Cool Dollhouse and Mega Blox
Thanks to Grandma Sue and Grandpa Jerry for the Cool Fleece and Other cool stuff
Thanks to Grandma Jan and Papa for The cool Castle
Thanks to Grandpa Briggs For The Cool Fishin Stuff.
Thanks to Rob Ken and Mhari for the Cool Puzzles.
Thanks to Grandma Bev for all the Clothes
Thanks to Mike Diana and the boy for the books.
Sorry for the late post. A Shake up at work. Sean the Chef is leaving. Jason will be takin on more duties and Jess will be getting more hours.
Love
The Alaskan Rivers
Backwoods Home Magazine
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Can we say cold!
- 41 Degrees
That is our current temperature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now That Is Freakin Cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At -41 Things that you do not think would freeze up. Freeze up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A warming trend for Saturday -20
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In other news Me and the girls got what mommy got. So another day at home while mommy works for me. We are not sure if it was food poisoning or viral. I am thinking a combo of both.
Love
Jason
That is our current temperature!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now That Is Freakin Cold!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
At -41 Things that you do not think would freeze up. Freeze up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
A warming trend for Saturday -20
HA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In other news Me and the girls got what mommy got. So another day at home while mommy works for me. We are not sure if it was food poisoning or viral. I am thinking a combo of both.
Love
Jason
Wednesday, December 19, 2007
Colder than a Witches Boob in a Brass Brazier
That statement is severly underestimated.
= 30 f for the last three days.
Most or the United states coldest Temperatures are what we call "Unseasonably Warm".
This is a thinking mans or womens cold. You have to think before you go out in this cold. Trailblazer Barely started this morning. I got my first feeling of frostbite just trying to plug the truck in. Exposure in real. Believe it or not we still saw people out in shorts and and No Jackets. Can we say stupid. People need to rethink there ways.
Fortunatly we have not succumed to the stupidity. Beanies and Hat and ski bib and Jackets on.
But in all this we are staying warm and cozy in our little apartment. Jess had a Good bout of food poisoning from a restaurant up in Fairbanks. So we spent the day taking care of Mommy. We are getting ready for Christmas.
Peace and Joy to you all
Love
Jason
= 30 f for the last three days.
Most or the United states coldest Temperatures are what we call "Unseasonably Warm".
This is a thinking mans or womens cold. You have to think before you go out in this cold. Trailblazer Barely started this morning. I got my first feeling of frostbite just trying to plug the truck in. Exposure in real. Believe it or not we still saw people out in shorts and and No Jackets. Can we say stupid. People need to rethink there ways.
Fortunatly we have not succumed to the stupidity. Beanies and Hat and ski bib and Jackets on.
But in all this we are staying warm and cozy in our little apartment. Jess had a Good bout of food poisoning from a restaurant up in Fairbanks. So we spent the day taking care of Mommy. We are getting ready for Christmas.
Peace and Joy to you all
Love
Jason
Friday, December 14, 2007
Wednesday, December 12, 2007
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!
Just wanted to send a big Birthday Shout-Out to Grandpa Jerry. So...... Happy Birthday Grandpa Jerry!!!!!!!!!!! Hope it's GREAT!
Saturday, December 08, 2007
Subsistence Diet 1899
Checkout this Article on Native Diet in 1899. Very interesting
Love
Jason
http://www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/subsistence.html
Love
Jason
http://www.pbs.org/harriman/1899/subsistence.html
Friday, December 07, 2007
Ice Alaska
North Pole Alaska will be hosting an Christmas On ice.
This is a Warm Up(Pun Intended) to the *2008 World Ice Art Championships*
Feb. 26-Mar. 23, 2008
Check Out The Link and Pictures
Ice Alaska
Love
Jason
This is a Warm Up(Pun Intended) to the *2008 World Ice Art Championships*
Feb. 26-Mar. 23, 2008
Check Out The Link and Pictures
Ice Alaska
Love
Jason
Something I have never had to think about before
( As published in The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner)
Wolf pack strikes again in Two Rivers
By Tim Mowry
Staff Writer
Published December 6, 2007
A wolf pack that has been commuting between North Pole and Two Rivers for the past month, eating pet dogs as they go, has apparently struck again, this time at 16.5 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road.
Long-time Two Rivers resident Bill Blizzard said he discovered his 11-year-old Labrador/Chesapeake Bay retriever mix, Chesie, missing at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when he went out to feed his three dogs chained up about 200 feet from his home.
“All there was was a couple chunks of collar sitting on top of three or four pieces of intestine,” said Blizzard of what remained of his 70-pound pet. “Everything is gone. It looks like they ate her right there.”
He isn’t sure when the wolves struck but suspects it was early Tuesday morning.
“I think they hit around 6 a.m. (Tuesday) because my neighbor said her dogs went off around 6 a.m.,” Blizzard said.
Chesie’s two siblings, Buster and Banjo, who were chained up in the same area, weren’t touched and gave no warning wolves were in the yard.
“They didn’t make a sound,” Blizzard said. “How do they eat a dog with two other dogs in the yard and you don’t hear nothing? That’s how quiet they were.”
State wildlife officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game suspect its the same pack of wolves that have been roaming the area for more than a month and have killed and eaten at least two other dogs, one at 19.5 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road on Nov. 23 and one in North Pole on Oct. 31. The wolves have also been spotted several times by residents living along the first 20 miles of Chena Hot Springs Road.
After hearing of reports about the wolves in the area, Blizzard said he was laying in wait for the wolves when they evidently struck.
“I was laying next to the door with my 18-inch barrel Mossberg with a flashlight and my bunny boots; I was ready,” said Blizzard, a former dog musher who has lived in Two Rivers for more than 30 years. “The wind was blowing, and I didn’t hear nothing.”
Blizzard reported the incident to the Department of Fish and Game but spokeswoman Cathie Harms said at this point there isn’t much the department can do because the wolves are gone by the time anyone gets there and they don’t know where they will strike next.
“The chances of us being in the right place at the right time in the hundreds of square miles this wolf pack roams is near impossible,” Harms. said. “The people that are going to have a chance to take action are the people that live there.”
The department is trying to work with trappers to catch the wolves but that’s tough to do in a residential area where loose dogs can also be caught in traps, she said.
There is a rumor that a trapper in Two Rivers caught or shot three wolves in the area but department officials have not been able to confirm that, Harms said.
State wildlife officials initially thought there were five or six wolves in the pack, but no more than three wolves have been seen at a time, Harms noted.
Even if they were able to find and tranquilize the wolves, which is unlikely, Harms said relocating them is not an option.
“We don’t have any place to move them,” she said. “Our only option would be shoot them.”
So far, the wolves have carried out their attacks on dogs under the cover of darkness and have not approached people, Harms said.
“Every report so far indicates these wolves are pretty leery of people,” she said.
Harms advised residents to take precautions by keeping their pets in a fenced-in area or inside a house or building. Even plastic fencing like the orange mesh used at construction sites might keep wolves away, she said. Another possibility is stringing rope around your yard with rags attached that can flap in the wind. Soaking the rags in something with a strong scent, such as Chlorox, ammonia or urine isn’t a bad idea, either, she said.
“Something that holds a scent for a long time,” Harms said.
Contact staff writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587.
Now this was not meant to scare anyone, I just thought I would share on what's happening up here. Just thought I better put that in there.
Merry Christmas!!!! Jess
Wolf pack strikes again in Two Rivers
By Tim Mowry
Staff Writer
Published December 6, 2007
A wolf pack that has been commuting between North Pole and Two Rivers for the past month, eating pet dogs as they go, has apparently struck again, this time at 16.5 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road.
Long-time Two Rivers resident Bill Blizzard said he discovered his 11-year-old Labrador/Chesapeake Bay retriever mix, Chesie, missing at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday when he went out to feed his three dogs chained up about 200 feet from his home.
“All there was was a couple chunks of collar sitting on top of three or four pieces of intestine,” said Blizzard of what remained of his 70-pound pet. “Everything is gone. It looks like they ate her right there.”
He isn’t sure when the wolves struck but suspects it was early Tuesday morning.
“I think they hit around 6 a.m. (Tuesday) because my neighbor said her dogs went off around 6 a.m.,” Blizzard said.
Chesie’s two siblings, Buster and Banjo, who were chained up in the same area, weren’t touched and gave no warning wolves were in the yard.
“They didn’t make a sound,” Blizzard said. “How do they eat a dog with two other dogs in the yard and you don’t hear nothing? That’s how quiet they were.”
State wildlife officials with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game suspect its the same pack of wolves that have been roaming the area for more than a month and have killed and eaten at least two other dogs, one at 19.5 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road on Nov. 23 and one in North Pole on Oct. 31. The wolves have also been spotted several times by residents living along the first 20 miles of Chena Hot Springs Road.
After hearing of reports about the wolves in the area, Blizzard said he was laying in wait for the wolves when they evidently struck.
“I was laying next to the door with my 18-inch barrel Mossberg with a flashlight and my bunny boots; I was ready,” said Blizzard, a former dog musher who has lived in Two Rivers for more than 30 years. “The wind was blowing, and I didn’t hear nothing.”
Blizzard reported the incident to the Department of Fish and Game but spokeswoman Cathie Harms said at this point there isn’t much the department can do because the wolves are gone by the time anyone gets there and they don’t know where they will strike next.
“The chances of us being in the right place at the right time in the hundreds of square miles this wolf pack roams is near impossible,” Harms. said. “The people that are going to have a chance to take action are the people that live there.”
The department is trying to work with trappers to catch the wolves but that’s tough to do in a residential area where loose dogs can also be caught in traps, she said.
There is a rumor that a trapper in Two Rivers caught or shot three wolves in the area but department officials have not been able to confirm that, Harms said.
State wildlife officials initially thought there were five or six wolves in the pack, but no more than three wolves have been seen at a time, Harms noted.
Even if they were able to find and tranquilize the wolves, which is unlikely, Harms said relocating them is not an option.
“We don’t have any place to move them,” she said. “Our only option would be shoot them.”
So far, the wolves have carried out their attacks on dogs under the cover of darkness and have not approached people, Harms said.
“Every report so far indicates these wolves are pretty leery of people,” she said.
Harms advised residents to take precautions by keeping their pets in a fenced-in area or inside a house or building. Even plastic fencing like the orange mesh used at construction sites might keep wolves away, she said. Another possibility is stringing rope around your yard with rags attached that can flap in the wind. Soaking the rags in something with a strong scent, such as Chlorox, ammonia or urine isn’t a bad idea, either, she said.
“Something that holds a scent for a long time,” Harms said.
Contact staff writer Tim Mowry at 459-7587.
Now this was not meant to scare anyone, I just thought I would share on what's happening up here. Just thought I better put that in there.
Merry Christmas!!!! Jess
Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Weather
Well, It is getting cold here. It's either -11 or -14 depending on where you look. I am in the process of adding a weather widget on here. But haven't quite figured out how. So here is a link to the Artic Cam as well :http://arcticcam.com/cam/
We haven't had any new snow for a while. But the old stuff has never left. Most of the main roads are clear though. The rest are a nice ice rink at this point. And did you know that we can't use salt on the roads here, because it gets too cold for it to work? I didn't even know that was possible. So there is sand and small gravel used instead.That's all for know folks!
I know it's early but, Merry Christmas! With Love, Jessica
We haven't had any new snow for a while. But the old stuff has never left. Most of the main roads are clear though. The rest are a nice ice rink at this point. And did you know that we can't use salt on the roads here, because it gets too cold for it to work? I didn't even know that was possible. So there is sand and small gravel used instead.That's all for know folks!
I know it's early but, Merry Christmas! With Love, Jessica
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Sunrise Sunset
Sunrise 10:15 AM
Sunset 3:00 PM
The Sun has become a precious comodity as of late. Today the low was -9F. Way Chilly.
Still enjoy seeing the Sunrise
Still enjoy seeing a Sunset
Makes me think of my life as of late.
There is always a Sunrise
There is always a Sunset
But the best part is.......
There is Always another Sunrise
Love
Jason
Sunset 3:00 PM
The Sun has become a precious comodity as of late. Today the low was -9F. Way Chilly.
Still enjoy seeing the Sunrise
Still enjoy seeing a Sunset
Makes me think of my life as of late.
There is always a Sunrise
There is always a Sunset
But the best part is.......
There is Always another Sunrise
Love
Jason
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