I'm way behind in posting this year, so I'll take the opportunity during this rainy day to catch up on posting a handful of blogs from these past few months. Here's Jolene x-country skiing on a nearby frozen lake.
Winter in Alaska tends to revolve around eating, so the next few pics are documentation of how much we enjoy eating during our Alaskan winters. Here I'm deep frying some halibut, during a rare snow-free day of the winter season.
Eating out at a nearby restaurant, where they shot the local film "Moose, the Movie".
Slicing up some homemade potato chips to go with our salmon dinner. Our ~350 lbs of potatoes we harvested are still going strong 8 months later. They preserved well by just keeping them in a bin in the garage, and I even used the smaller ones as seed potatoes this year (and they have sprouted already). We have given many away to friends, but still have about 60 lbs left to eat.
Another view from a local cafe.
A winter view from the side of our house.
Jolene and friends, Emily and Kristen, in what I'll call a combo-bjorning and -skijoring adventure.
Moose in the yard at sunset.
Moose below the bluff.
Winter sunset, at about 3:30 in the afternoon!
Winter allows us to walk the frozen hayflats below the house. This pic is looking back at the house on the bluff, with the new eagle pair in the tree tops in the center of the pic.
The new nest of the eagle pair near the house. If you look closely, you can see an eagle sitting in the nest.
Winter landscape down on the hayflats.
Our creek, frozen over (but still running strong beneath the ice).
The old eagle nest. The last one Spot reared chicks in. It's now been empty for 2 years, and covered in snow.
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