…and it’s going to be a lot harder to come up with a good punch line for that one. But, believe it or not, in an apparent game of one-upmanship, a group of ducklings did indeed follow a recent beaver’s example and wandered into Alaska Industrial Hardware. They, too, made it into the newspaper. How will our town handle so much action?
Excuse me, we’re interested in the fluid that fills these things…(photo from the Daily News Miner)
…and [insert your punchline here]. But it really happened here in Fairbanks — and it tells you a lot about our town that this little gem made it onto the front page of the newspaper.
Photo from the Fairbanks Daily News Miner
How many Ph.D.s does it take to change a light bulb?
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The holidays crept up on us with remarkable speed*. And so here we are already at Winter’s Solstice without having engaged in any of the requisite holiday action. It’s an important day in the Far North, because of course it’s the shortest of the year and day lengths will quickly increase — a very welcome change when we’re at 3 hours and 41 minutes of possible sunlight today.
Anyway, neither Rose nor I were feeling compelled to decorate for Christmas, and she had the brilliant suggestion of a “Festive Light Snarl,” which we were able to implement in about one minute.
The Festive Light Snarl
Happy holidays!
*Well, the pace was probably the same as usual, but it sure seemed faster (said the deer in the headlights).
Life on the Last Frontier in the 21st century could be all wood cutting, an outhouse, and a dry cabin. And many folks do still choose that lifestyle. But it is interesting that we humans generally go all out to have our creature comforts within reach. I am reminded of just how much crap these creature comforts can represent as we’re buried in seasonal advertisements for just about anything you might wish to buy. Gigantic television sets bigger than small children? Choose your model.