Tom walks Roxie during the blizzard.

Our neighbor across the way, Jeff, shovels snow from his front door area.


Roxie is play ing on snow that covers our connexes - they are about 8 feet high.


If folks have a snow machine AND a four wheeler - they have pretty much let the four wheelers get buried in the snow. There's no place to shelter them.




We having a little blizzard today. No planes. Nobody outside. A wedding was postponed. I don't even know how to describe this weather. C-c-c-cold, heavy winds, blowing snow, quasi whiteouts coming and going. If you try to open a window to get a bit fresh air - it might just blow off the hinges. Roxie does her business really fast when she goes out side. Several people were trying to get out for a conference and only one plane was able to fly in yesterday and it had just six seats. So they are stuck here in this awful weather when they thought they would be in Anchorage in a nice hotel for the weekend. A couple of the teachers have only been out about once this year - so this is a trip they don't want to miss.
I'm well now. Tom is so relieved. He is a wonderful caretaker.

Whew - high winds and blowing snow. I'm posting a few photos.

We have not yet taken down our Christmas lights.


We have several ball teams and the principal out of town (well out of village) and they can't get back in. No mail. No eggs. No powdered sugar. And Roxie does not want to go outside - not to mention Tom. Last weekend we had the big annual HoopFest. Teams from all over Southwest Alaska came in to have a big basketball tournament. I made - let me count - 96 cupcakes and four regular cakes. I have been trying to get back into my cake decorating which I used to do in the 70's. Was it that long ago? Anyway, I am pretty rusty - but got a rather good looking heart cake made for the food sale at HoopFest. Some ball player saw it and special ordered one for her friends birthday. It brought back such great memories of when I took those cake decorating classes in NC and then taught the cake decorating classes in Costa Rica. The teams filled up every classroom in the middle and high school wings and camped out. Chevak ended up winning the championship. This is quite a social event since people get to see friends and spend time with people they know from other villages.

I have been sick for five days now - but keep trudging along to school. It hits me in the evenings - chills and aching bones.

Tomorrow it will be an especially rough trip to school since we have these huge snow drifts - many are up to 12 and 15 feet near the houses. We will certainly be climbing though snow banks tomorrow on the way to school. Tom has it rough cause he has to push and pull me along. Not really, I do pretty well.

It is ice-cold around here! The last week or so has been interesting to say the least. Lat Saturday morning a friend called to find out about the earthquake in Alaska. We had one that morning just after 9am and I didn't even know it. It was near the Cook Inlet.This past week has been a Volcano watch for part of Alaska across the water from Homer. Terry and Dee and Mary - you guys saw Mt. ReDoubt when we made that stop and looked across at that long line of dormant and sleeping volcanoes. They expect some ash to be falling around Anchorage if it does blow.

My aide is out with a new adopted baby and I am alone for six weeks. It has been quite a while since I shelved and checked out books. Very boring....