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Fireweed Jelly | Preserving the Harvest #SundaySupper
This Sunday our Sunday Supper contributors are sharing ways to preserve the wonderful bounty we have this time of year. I thought I would take this opportunity to share something I made while we lived...
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2013 – The Year in Review
Every year I love to take the time to go back and look at what took place in the past 365 days. January It all started with an Alaskan New Year’s party. And what was that? A massive bonfire on top of a...
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Aurora Borealis – Live!
One of the things I miss most about Alaska besides moose in the backyard and in the freezer, the fresh air, the wilderness, the salmon, the peacefulness….okay, there are quite a few things I miss about...
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Sight Seeing Around Fairbanks
Today I am taking you on a little trip, back to when we lived in Alaska. This was a day we spent out in Fairbanks, during our first winter up there. My daughter made a day of it and simply went sight...
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This isn’t really a “Throwback Thursday” – since it’s Tuesday – but I was writing an article and mentioned the time we had a New Year’s Eve party on a frozen lake in North Pole, Alaska. First of all,...
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Another Visitor–Bald Eagle
Yesterday morning, the mother and young bull returned to our back yard. But those weren’t our only visitors yesterday. In the afternoon, my neighbor called over to us, and brought this one to our...
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Aurora Watching
Last night we had another beautiful show of the Aurora Borealis. It was so great, that I did a very rare thing. I went home before it was over! This show kept going, and going and going. I stuck it out...
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Snow Removal
Here’s the thing about living in Fairbanks, Alaska… They don’t plow much. When the snow comes in October, the plows don’t immediately rush out out to clear the roads. If your lucky, they’ll clear the...
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Oh Aurora, I will Miss You Too!
Yesterday morning, I made a comment on a facebook page that I hoped to get another good show before we leave Alaska. Now that spring is here, the light is returning at a super fast pace, gaining about...
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Military Appreciation Banquet | 2013 Fort Wainwright Civilian of the Year
So, last week I mentioned an honor that I was excited and yet incredibly humbled by. I’ll share with you the story now. You see, last week was the 45th Annual Military Appreciation Banquet that is put...
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The Last One | #AuroraBorealis
This is it. This is probably the last opportunity I will ever have to see this amazing, breathtaking and glorious sight. The weather was bad – in the negatives and there were high, thin clouds that...
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Farewell Fort Wainwright–Here We Go!
Our last sunrise has come at Fort Wainwright. Today we hit the road! Heading down the Al-Can Highway – through the Yukon and British Columbia, back to the Lower 48. Over the next couple weeks, I will...
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New Year’s Eve in Alaska
This isn’t really a “Throwback Thursday” – since it’s Tuesday – but I was writing an article and mentioned the time we had a New Year’s Eve party on a frozen lake in North Pole, Alaska. First of all,...
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