Um, my brother's scrapbook is still a work in progress. He's 29.
You have many more pix of the kids (thanks to you and lori and K) that will endure for a while. If not 29 years.
Oh, smacked in the noggin with a 2x4 wrapped in velvet. Yeah, that's what it felt like.
Lorne ,'Smile Time'
Natter 56: ...we need the writers.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
sarameg - Feb 06, 2008 5:55:39 pm PST #8056 of 10001
tommyrot - Feb 06, 2008 6:00:30 pm PST #8057 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just saw the statewide weather forecast, and they're predicting -70F in Tok tonight.
Yep. Cold.
Years ago I read about vehicles in AK. At temperatures of -40F (or thereabouts, IIRC) the flat part of car and truck tires (i.e. the part deformed by its contact with the ground) gets frozen in place, so when you drive a car you have to go about 5 mph until the friction of driving heats up the tires enough so the flat part is no longer frozen in place (and banging as it goes around) but instead stays in contact with the ground.
That made me really want to live in AK....
sarameg - Feb 06, 2008 6:00:45 pm PST #8058 of 10001
I looked through the family albums this holiday. I just don't recall baby me pix. The time the tent collapsed, sure. Baby, no.
Susan W. - Feb 06, 2008 6:02:37 pm PST #8059 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
What a great picture, msbelle!
libkitty - Feb 06, 2008 6:05:46 pm PST #8060 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
That made me really want to live in AK....
That's the adventure! Actually, this isn't usually that bad with modern tires. I had family in the interior in the 40s and 50s, though, and they could tell some pretty amazing stories. I was there in the 80s, and despite being there for the coldest month on record, we had it easy.
Java cat - Feb 06, 2008 6:19:59 pm PST #8061 of 10001
Not javachik
-70F in Tok tonight. And the high today near there (Brien's Creek, or something like that) was -67F. I have been in colder
Did it hurt to breathe?
P.M. Marc - Feb 06, 2008 6:22:29 pm PST #8062 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Aww! Mac's so damn cute.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 6:28:44 pm PST #8063 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was reading Word Freak (Jesse and ita, if you haven't read it, you must. It's written by Stefan Fastis about competitive scrabble). He mentions that in Hebrew the word grace is an anagram of Noah. Life is weird.
Blog entry? meh? maybe.
libkitty - Feb 06, 2008 6:30:23 pm PST #8064 of 10001
Embrace the idea that we are the leaders we've been looking for. Grace Lee Boggs
I'm not there. When I was in weather that cold, yeah, it kind of did. You needed to breath slowly, shallowly, through a couple of scarves.
Kat - Feb 06, 2008 6:39:10 pm PST #8065 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I don't think I could survive that kind of cold. I love the idea of Alaska. I just think the reality of living there is unfathomable (whether its wicked bitter cold, unbearable mosquitoes or extreme Fairbanks heat).