BALMY!

It's just not right when you think +17 degrees is balmy!! We finally had a warm-up today--Yippee! My car is much happier--it doesn't growl when I try to start it now!!

I'm settling into Alaskan life here--last night we (the B & B gang) cooked 2 huge red salmon filets. A teacher at school brought some she had in her freezer--yum! Her husband and son went dipping for them--you have to be a resident for a year in order to dip net. Everyone does this dip netting fishing thing--you are allowed 25 salmon a season which equals several hundred pounds. Therefore, by January many Alaskans are sick of salmon and just give them away!!

Anchorage has another festival--more than TC I think! It's called Freeze (isn't it ironic)(http://freezeproject.org/alaska/) which has real cool (no pun intended) ice and snow sculptures. We are taking our 7th graders on Friday--How fun--I'm kidding--yuck-- field trip with 7th graders outside in the freezing cold--where's the Excedrin! My team at school previewed this on Saturday when the temp. was -2...we didn't stay real long--it was pretty neat though!

Moose Sighting-- two mailboxes down on Saturday--they're everywhere--looking to get warm!
I'd post a picture but I can't get them to download on the blog :( I'll be working on it!
The Mountain was out yesterday too! It's always an awesome sight!

Still lookin' for Sarah--you betcha!