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Friday, February 06, 2009

No Running Water in the Alaskan Bush: The Daily Alaska

Last week, I linked to Mudflats.net, to a story about buying groceries. There is another post, from the same woman, explaining how they handle life without it. Again, I really am very sure I would not want to live like this. I hate laundromats and I love showers too much.

Here's the link...Life in Nunam Iqua - Water.

Last night we had a pretty good snow for a while, and I took a couple photos.

I had just gotten the snow off the Jeep and shoveled around it. Didn't last long...

Snow swirling under the street light.

And the pile of snow that used to be the kids' fort.

This morning I shoveled all that lovely snow off the driveway. There were 3 or 4 inches of snow on it, so it took an hour. But an hour of shoveling is 500 calories. So it's not all bad.

7 comments:

Unknown1:41 PM
Shovel? You use a shovel? And you live in Alaska? At the very least i woudl think you would have a snowblower - if not a flamethrower.
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Julie2:02 PM
Lou -- c'mon. I am a good environmentalist. Why use a machine that pollutes when I can get a workout and a (kinda) clear driveway at the same time? Besides, we moved here from the desert. Snowblowers are useless in the desert, and until my husband is home enough to have to do most of the shoveling, he won't think we need a snowblower.

But...I think we have a gas can and a lighter...
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Patsy5:51 PM
I'm still at brrrrrr! And I think shoveling snow for an hour burns more than 500 calories -- I think it would be more like 1,000,000 calories. At least in my mind it would!!!!
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Julie5:55 PM
Patsy...it should be about a million calories, if there were any justice in the world!
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Anonymous10:31 PM
I love the swirling snow shot! As long as I don't have to be in the cold.
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Secret Mom Thoughts9:01 AM
Good workout. I can't believe you don't have a snow blower either. The swirling snow is a great shot.
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Julie3:15 PM
maggie...that's exactly the kind of stuff I say, except change cold for hot. I hate hot weather. Cold weather? Easy. We have a ton of jackets and gloves and scarves and mittens and gloves and boots, plus if you start moving you warm up. Can't do that when it's 110...

secret mom...yeah. I am not so much with the snowblower thing, since we don't have that big a driveway. It's hard work sometimes, but very satisfying when it's done. Plus I have a teenager and an almost teenager...they are really good about helping with the shoveling.
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Okay -- updating my profile because I never removed the guinea pigs from it, even though they have been elsewhere for months.

Um...new obsession (HA) the elliptical trainer in the garage. I hate the thing, but today I burned 395 calories. I know. I so wanted to burn 5 more to make it an even 400, but then I would be at 50 minutes and 19 seconds, so I would have to make that round out to an even 51 minutes, and then the mileage could be rounded up to a more even number, and then the calories would be just a few away from 450, but then I could do just a few more seconds, then another few hundredths of a mile, and so on until finally I would fall off, hit my head, end up in the hospital with another nasty concussion, and gain weight because I am bedridden. It was so much easier to just burn the 395 calories.

We moved from the Sonoran desert of southern Arizona to the almost Arctic of Anchorage. I like the winters of Anchorage better than the summers of Tucson, so far.

Still have three kids, the oldest one is a freshman at the U of Arizona (dang it, now I will have to edit this again in a few months), the other two live on Fort Richardson with me and the dogs and the husband.

Other obsessions...my camera, my IPod Touch, my sewing machine. Fabric. Definitely fabric. Dishes. It's a thing females in my family have, an obsession with dishes. Pottery, and earthenware. Silver, definitely. Not crystal and china though. I am not a big fan of the fussy and overly ornate, and both crystal and china tend to fall into those categories, to me. Plus if I have delicate dishware, then I can't have the kids wash the dishes or put it in the dishwasher.

Other than that, I weigh too much, sleep too little, am very liberal, rabidly pro-choice, find it insane this country does not have universal health care, and think the world may be a better place with Obama at the helm. Oh, yeah, and chocolate. Much much chocolate.