Category Archive:Moose Nuggets

Promised Pics

January 2nd, 2007 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / 4 Comments »

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coming home from Anchorage –

check out the snow load on those trees!

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starting to clear though.

Of course, now the forcasts include a LOT MORE SNOW over the next week. Whoopie! Who would think that I live here, huh? I am SUCH a wuss about the snow – well, I don’t mean that I don’t go out in or anything like that, cause I do. That is, my CAR goes out in in. I don’t go out and PLAY in it – that would mean putting on LAYERS of clothes and BOOTS for pity’s sake, you know. And, it c(w)ould mean getting COLD and/or FROSTBIT or something like that, you see.

I am MUCH too fond of my skin just where it is, dontchaknow? heh.

Anyway – enjoy the pictures. In fact, why don’t you all come up here and enjoy the weather, too? There’s plenty to go around.

weather, that is.

and, to think, I might HAVE to go back to Anchorage next week – for a one day conference – maybe – we’ll see – hopefully soon – maybe not. How cryptic is THAT?

see ya!

:moose:

Suggested Reading

January 2nd, 2007 / Categories: Moose Nuggets, Reading List / 1 Comment »

I picked the book up in Anchorage. B&N didn’t have the first of the two, but I was able to put my happy little grubs on @Home for the Holidays by Meredith Efken.

If you have ever been a part of any sort of email group – (you know the sort – someone sends and email, and then the group responds to it, each adding their own little twists and turns along the way) – well, you will certainly understand the humor behind the words.

I have laughed so hard today while reading it – and I am nearly 2/3s of the way through it now – that hubby moose surely thought I was losing my mind. I would wipe the tears from my eyes and put my hand over my mouth (thus to stifle somewhat the loud GUFFAWS bellowing forth – too little, too late!) and mutter “sorry, honey” and then read the next section and have to do it all over again.

Lessa is waiting to read it and I am sure that Ladybug will want it as well. Sadly, in this account anyway, I have to go back to work tomorrow. And, I have to find a Soldotnan willing to be interviewed sometime tomorrow also . . . So, I will probably not finish it until Wednesday – at the earliest. Well, we will see, won’t we?

It really is a page turner.

Now – go and buy – and, if you find a copy of SAHM I Am also by Meredith, pick that one up, too. I am still looking for it.

Tall – Taller – Tallest

January 1st, 2007 / Categories: Family, Moose Nuggets / Comments Closed

the biggest question around the moosie household is:

Who is taller – the Boy? – or Gramps?

You be the judge:

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hmmmm – pretty darned close!

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HEY! how did THAT happen?

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funny, Gramps, REAL funny!

Yes, the men in my life are a barrel – or stool-full – of fun! Heh.

 

Headed out

December 28th, 2006 / Categories: Moose Nuggets / 1 Comment »

of town for a few days. It has been awhile since I have visited with my Sister-Friend and since I have some time off work, today is the day. Likely I will not be able to – or want to (you understand – visiting, chatting, friends and all that) update while I’m gone. So, I just wanted you all to know I’m okay and off and about, hopefully to find some new road pics.

In the meantime – Christmas songs I have not heard before – or just didn’t register in my brain pan:

Loop de Loop Flip-Flop and now I have an ear worm! A search on Christmas told me that it was on a Beach Boy’s (yes, Virginia, I AM old enough to remember them . . .  humpf!) album pressed in 1998 and 2000. Maybe I was too busy doing mommy things then to remember it? Nah, make that GRANDmommy things. Sigh.

Anyway – seek out the tune, too. I want to share my earworm with you. 😉

Okay – I was all full of myself with the article in the ADN and all that – just making my own fun, you understand. I received a very nice note from the author of the original story in the Beaumont (Texas) Enterprise, Jamie Reid, with a link to her blog entry about it all. Looks like she knows how to make HER own fun, too.

Okay, peeps, I am off and away. The weather has not been very nice the past couple of days and I have been pretty much (self-imposed and gratefully) housebound. But it is time to face the music in the breezes – I am off and away.

See you soon.

:moose:

Above the fold . . .

December 26th, 2006 / Categories: Alaska, Moose Nuggets / Comments Closed

and with a byline. When I was studying journalism in high school that was the epitome of having arrived . . . having your story printed above the fold complete with byline (your name in print) in the newspaper.

It has happened to me a couple of times over the years – with stories printed in the local paper – stories about my grandbabies and my views of small town Alaska. But – yesterday – it happened in the Big town newspaper. (biggest paper in the state, my friend pointed out to me.)

Anchorage Daily News printed an article complete with photo and byline, above the fold – on Christmas Day!

You see, one day last week I saw an article in said paper by a Jamie Reid who writes for the Beaumont Texas Enterprise. The article picked at those of us who enjoy wearing holiday sweaters and other such things. I took a bit of (good natured) offense and shot off a letter to the editor of the Enterprise and to the Daily News.

ADNs letters editor called me to make sure I had really written the letter (as it had been emailed) and when I shared that I’d had to cut it severely due to their word constraints, the woman on the phone said “why don’t you submit it as a Compass piece? You can have up to 675 words there!”

Why indeed.

Hold that letter, please. I’m sending it in for the Compass column. That editor called me and asked for a photo. Can do. Lessa took the shot and I emailed it in.

Christmas Day! You can find the piece here: Holiday clothes put the ‘ho ho’ on us all. You may need to sign in to read it – I didn’t, but may have still been signed in from my last look at the paper. Enjoy, friends.

Hey, how was your Christmas????

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