Alaska 2014!

I belong to an aurora chasers group. Occasionally someone will get a shot of something they can't explain or something really interesting that is not an aurora. You know, put a couple hundred people out in the middle of the night all over the state of Alaska and you get some pretty interesting shots. We get satellites, fuel dumps, the occasional UFO. But this one had me cracking up bad!

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ok this maybe dumb question but we are driving from NP to Fairbanks and there seems to be someting falling very slowly on the sky .... somebody know what is it?

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xxx like straight down


aaa Probably diamond dust... All sparkly and smaller than snowflakes?

xxx no lol i mean it would look like airplain or satelite? i dont know if its possible

aaa Sorry... Bright?


xxx yes seems to have long tail


aaa Up very high or down low? Can you get a picture?


xxx sorry cant get picture now its already low, its falling very long time....


xxx what is that? it seems to dissapear now .... weird

Did it look like this?

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So, we don't have a lot of high altitude flights going over but this had me seriously cracking up. And shaking my head.

Has to be photoshopped.

Awesome aurora party last night. We rented the Two Rivers community center. Two Rivers is a small dog mushing community about 25 miles out of town. It has wide open skies. I got home at 3:30. My friend Mariska took this of me as she was practicing her portraits. I have her permission to share it here.

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I watched a show the other day about aurora borealis. They said the ones that shoot up in colums are rare. I was trying to run them over, like rainbows, they would disappear as you came closer.

Hm, I wouldn't call them rare. I would say that the curtain formations are the most common though.

Cool pic Batgirl.

Oh oh oh, I really want this house. I might even want it enough to get over my fear of talking to bankers and real estate agents. I'm not quite where I wanted to be in my savings but dang this is a sweet deal.

http://www.servingfairbanks.com/list...lstalertts/fb/

I love that listing. Two beds, 0 baths. You won't find many listed like that around Indy.

Sounds like a cool place.

Lol that's pretty common here. Washer and dryer but also an outhouse.

Today's adventure. It was a beautiful 33 degrees, sunshiny day. My friend Lori called me and asked about an error code that her Toyo was showing. Toyo's are the stoves that we use for heat up here. She said she woke up to a cold house and the Toyo had an error message flashing on it. I asked her if she was out of fuel lol. "Uhm, probably." We are both single, though her kids are grown and we rely on each other to help out when needed. She is my go to person when I need help and I am hers. It's nice to have a friend you can rely on. She has never put her own fuel in. I will say that her knees are bad and she has some other health issues so I told her I would come over and help her. She doesn't get paid until Thurs. and the fuel truck only services her area on Tuesdays. So she would be a day over a week with out heat. While it was bright and warm out today, it's not likely to stay that way. We are still in winter though the days of our deep cold has probably passed. So I put on my big boots and dug some of my fuel jugs out from under the porch. I showed her where individual can go to get heating fuel. There is only one place in town that sells heating fuel out of a gas pump and not bulk. Score, it was down to $3.60something.

First we had to shovel a path back to her tank. I know that drift doesn't look big and it wasn't really that big, but it's easier to shovel through it then to crawl up over it. Especially since once you break through the crust, it's like lose sand underneath.

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This is not a job for someone with problematic knees. I call this the knee wrecker.
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She has an old metal pool ladder to reach her tank? A pool ladder?!!!! Where did that come from! People don't have pools in the subarctic! It was on the wrong end of the tank for some reason. So I climbed up and shoveled off all the snow that had slid off of her roof onto her tank, only to find, no spout!
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Then I had to dig up the ladder which was half buried in the snow drift and re-position it towards the other end of the tank. This left things feeling a bit more unstable. Especially since the top end was rounded and metal on metal is never comforting.

I started with the little one gallon jug to get a feel for my balance.
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Then I emptied my two and half gallon jug and the 5 gallon jug. I have the smaller ones because the ladder to my last fuel tank wasn't tall enough and I would have to empty fuel one gallon at a time because I couldn't reach the spout.
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Luckily now I make enough I can just have it delivered but for several winters had to do most of my own. It's a pain in the hiney at -40. Really miserable at those temps. But today, it was fun. So we did it twice.

Tune in next week for the all new episode of Georganne and Lori's Excellent Adventures. Until then, it's a secret.

Glad you were able to help a friend. Looks like the elusive indesius fingerus tried to fly in front of you lens in the first pick.

Will this solve the Toro error? Will Lori have heat? Is that fuzzy blur following Georganne really Bigfoot? Where did the pool ladder REALLY come from? And why is Georganne holding up a container marked gasoline (que ominous music) to put in Lori's fuel oil tank and what's with the diabolical smile?

But first, a word from our sponsor......

Hahahaha. HI Larious I say!

Happy St. Patrick's Day from a red headed Irish lass in a little cabin in the woods in the middle of Alaska.

Two little simple tunes. Will Ye Gang to Kelvingrove? Cailin Mo Ruinsa.

http://youtu.be/QveThfmCj_A

Wolf attacks dog. We hear about this kind of stuff almost every spring.
http://www.adn.com/2014/03/17/337916...er-battle.html

My friend Susan from Kavik River Camp (and Life Below Zero) is in NYC right now. So fun to see the tourist shoe on the other foot. She got interviewed by Fox. She tells a bit of her bear attack. I know she doesn't like to talk about it as it still gives her nightmares, but of course, it's the story every one wants to hear.

http://video.foxnews.com/v/335538617...fe-below-zero/

Good interview. Quite a woman.

I like that girl!