Before it can even get cold, it warms up again

Last week, I posted a picture I took less than 100 yards from here of a boat in the middle of ice and everything freezing up - behind schedule, but finally freezing up. Now everything is warm again. Last night, we could hear the wind howling, blasting in from its origins in the South Pacific. In some places The wind hit 105 mph. Early in the fall, it looked like we might get an early winter. Now, I am beginning to wonder if winter will ever come at all this year. Before this year, several seasons had passed by without any water running through this culvert. There has now been water in this culvert since break up last spring, but not always this deep. Even during our hot, hot, summer weather there was water in it. Last night's warm wind brought warm rain and now there is even more water in the culvert.

Text added at 12:42 PM. The Squarespace nightmare continues.

We barely complete our early shopping then settle in with pizza on a blustery, snowy, hazardous Christmas Eve; black cat waits for Santa

The pizza and salad were excellent. After we finished, Jimmy took a seat at the base

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Margie and I venture out into the wind to do some early Christmas shopping

Finally, our Christmas shopping maybe seven percent done, we began the drive

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I drive in the wind to a still Anchorage, but quickly come back to the wind

This afternoon, I headed to town under a severe clear sky to pick up Margie and pay a

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The chill, bitter, snowless, wind

...the wind!

The wind has just been relentless. It blew hard every day for over a full

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