Nanook

-13F here, that’s -25C in Canadian degrees. Was up to 0F yesterday, they say the bottom may drop out later this week! I should make another heating oil run when the bulk plant opens again...re-jetting, putting an hour/tach meter & heat pad under the engine case on the just broke-in, Honda snowblower in the shop today. Skiing or fat tire biking to build up an appetite this afternoon...

Or the Aurora North of Fairbanks, Alaska.

Merry Christmas to All...Christmas lights on an old ship off the Oregon Coast

We mostly are meat hunters in Alaska, the game is wild, there is no feeding or attracting, except for bears. I don’t bait Bears. We have Caribou and Moose around in pretty good numbers, it is all fair chase. The only trophy type hunting we do is the white Dall Sheep, they are high in the mountains. The sheep meat is probably the best wild game meat we have. The weather can make sheep hunting a real challenge. There are very few roads, so boats, planes, ATVs and snowmachines are how we get out to hunting ares.

Thanks Retro, it is a big deal to have the sun coming back, when the Winter Solstice happens, we have 3hrs 40min of sunlight. The Solstice was yesterday on the 21st, today we have 3hrs 41min of sunlight! By the end of March we’ll be gaining 6-7min a day of sunlight.

Up North everything is growing better! We are on the positive gain for sunlight and life is good! Now if we can make it through the next six weeks, we will actually start feeling the sun about the middle of February 😎

Hello Dennis the Menace.

Just flew in last night, took two days to make connections at SeaTac. Bad WX & power outages are making traveling a real joy. I live up in the hills NE of Fairbanks, it is only -18F up here! We are now gaining sunlight again, Yahoo...

I’ve got you beat Mel,

No but I hope that stuff doesn’t make it up North!

Ok it put me in the middle of Fairbanks, which is close enough.

Thanks Folks, looks like the members tab marks the location of the computer, since I’m down in N Idaho skiing now, I’ll have to wait until I get home.

Thanks, just North of Fairbanks.