Winter Scenes

Thanksgiving today in USA and everything is closed while the whole population eats turkey with all the trimmings, followed by pumpkin pie. Winter is officially here and we have taken a few shots around the house to help you get the scene of an Alaskan winter.

This is the digger/snowplough that deals with the overnight snow fall in our road. He has shoved the snow into a big pile at the end of the street, where there is a 'no-parking' zone to allow them to create a snow mountain.

We took a walk on the local trail in the snow. Chugach Mountains in the background. Our amibtion is to get some ski gear and do a nordic ski down the trails.

Here we have our exclusive patio wine cooler. Nice Californian Chardonnay, chilled by the Anchorage snow.

Alan

We've arrived!

Landed in Anchorage on Sunday 15th November 2009 at 11.30pm. Finally got to bed after getting the luggage, rental car and shopping at 1.30am. Our rented house is very nice and we are settling in now. The snow has arrived but only 1-2" as it is too cold at the moment. We have come to Alaska in the grip of the coldest November for many years. It was about -5 deg F overnight, and about +10 deg F in the daytime.

This week a moose came into town and caused a stir while it was looking for food. They do this when snow covers up their usual diet of plants and grass. The trees here have moose-guards to stop them stripping the leaves and buds off the local foliage.

Alan went up to the Arctic on Wed/Thursday to a man-made island called Northstar. He will need to go up there about twice a month while we are here.

I have been busy unpacking cases and the freight container we packed on 9th Nov has finally cleared customs and we took delivery on 17th.

We bought a desk for the study

but it needed assembling,

good thing Alan was here.

The estate looks really good at

night with lights in the trees.

This was taken outside the house

but you can only see the lights.