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we get some of the most glorious sunrise and sunset action in the winter time. Here is a sample of one such sunrise. I used this photo for my Christmas cards this year
Category Archive:Alaska
?Happy Birthday, dear pancha?(PurpleMoosie)?sung (very badly – because it would not be any fun at all if it were NOT sung very badly) by our gracious servers. 😉
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?Aren’t they lovely? We love going to Rosita’s for dinner.
Thank you all for your lovely birthday greetings. Today was a full day, but a very nice one nonetheless. It started early, but will be ending soon as I am headed for the rack. This getting up at 5 a.m. is EARLY!
oh – if you have not yet seen it, be sure to rent Flight Plan. Wow!
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frost, originally uploaded by PurpleMoose.
When we get an ice fog this is what is left . . . very thick, almost snow-like covering on trees and blades of grass – fences – whatever is outside. It really can be quite beautiful.
January 14th, 2006 / Categories: Alaska /
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Augustine is restless – check out the webcam
Do check out the link behind the button above – fascinating pictures of Augustine. It is pretty cool to see the difference in the mountain – prior to this eruptive phase and now. Lots of beautiful white snow before and now Augustine’s flanks are covered with gray ash.
Very cool pics, though. Be sure to check them out.
And, in case you were wondering how far the moose family is away from all this – you can see on this page. The map shows all of the volcanoes that are near the Kenai Peninsula.
We have seen eruptions in all of the mountains marked in red since we have lived here. I think the only one that covered us in ash was Augustine back in ’86. The wind favored Kenai in the other eruptions – carried the ash to Anchorage.
This disrupts commercial air flights as you might imagine. Even the puddle jumpers between Anchorage and Kenai aren’t flying right now. I imagine that if there are no more eruptions this morning that ban might be lifted. Alaska Air cancelled 28 flights yesterday. One couple took a taxi (!!!!) from Homer to Anchorage – that’s over 200 miles – can’t imagine the fare. They hoped to be able to make their flight out of Anchorage, but were told it wouldn’t fly once they arrived at Ted Stevens International Airport. Poor guy – he wants to so badly get to Seattle to see the Seahawks play today. Doubt that happened.
January 13th, 2006 / Categories: Alaska /
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Augustine is restless – check out the webcam
Two days ago they called it a “burp” because it was just a little poof of steam.
This morning? KABOOM!! Ash headed eastward toward the west side of the Kenai Peninsula south of Kenai. All that to say that unless we get a big wind, we should not get any ash . . . . THIS time.
Augustine is listed at Code Red for now – was just downgraded to Yellow yesterday afternoon and then THIS. 😉 Ahhhhlaska.
We had a supervisors’ meeting yesterday afternoon to tell us how we should act should an eruption occur – save the equipment!!! If we are at work – stay there – shelter in place. If we are at home and we are supposed to come to work – come to work!!! There are NO unneccessary personnel at our location. 😉
Well, we live in Alaska. Alaska is a volcanic state. We’ve been through this before. We’ll be just fine.
Pass the dust mask, please. (Thanks, MaryLou. We have some)
have a great weekend everyone, and please, pardon Augustine’s burp. 😉