Smiles From Nowhere

 The first snows of the winter are here, right about on time according to the weather bureau. These early snows often melt out, but this one...

Just some random photos with the changing of the seasons... Sunset illuminates the birch trees. A rare site, all the dogs lounging on their ...

 One of the summer activities I frequent are the Airheads meetings. They are a group of motor heads, bikers, or whatever you call them that ...

Just the other day, Andy noticed that the leaves are starting to turn yellow on the birch trees. August seems way too early for fall, but th...

 More like burnt Alaska with the results of the over-hyped Trump/Putin Anchorage summit. After claiming only he can get Putin to agree to a ...

There's an old Bob Wills song called Roly Poly, about a kid that can't stop running and/or eating. It was redone by Asleep at the Wh...

Mentioned earlier how the Christmas snowpocalypse of a few years ago destroyed the deck railing when the ice/snow load came off the roof in ...

While the lower forty eight has had some hot weather, it's also been remarkably hot in Alaska. Not just the interior, where warm spells ...

Not much going on besides splitting wood, so hope to have a winters worth done by the end of the month, then can move on to something more i...

In line with our ongoing attempts to finally finish the cabin that we started over forty years ago, we installed the last of the stair raili...

Since all the birch collected last fall is spilt and stacked, needed to get out and cut some more. Suitable trees are hard to find, they nee...

 Like last spring and many before that, now's the time to start splitting wood. Last fall there was a decent supply of wood bucked up an...