Friday, January 11, 2013

For the third time this week, we were greeted with a gently falling snow this morning. The temperature was about 15 degrees today; we probably accumulated about 2-3 inches of snow again. That is wonderful news for dog mushers, trappers, and small children who enjoy sledding! J

We spent the morning visiting with a man from church, who is also the bus driver for the children to school. We had a good visit over coffee and chocolate chip banana bread. The boys played outside in the snow and at 11am. we walked down to where the new airport runway will be located. There is an area there that has been plowed for people to ice skate on and the school children were all there for gym class. J It was fun, although Garett was the only one who had skates. We did get in a nice two mile walk in the snow.

On the way home from ice skating, we stopped at the mail box. I can tell we are coming into our last week of being here-we had NO mail! L Oh well, we came home and ate lunch. Then it was nap time and after a morning of playing in the snow, there were some little boys that willingly went down for nap time! J

Roger got the parts for the brake line, and the bolts will be coming with the team of people coming from Fairbanks tomorrow. There are ten people coming to cut wood. They will be staying in the church, and I’ve been busy cooking up chili, breads, and desserts for tomorrow night. We are looking forward to having them come. Since we’ve been without a vehicle all week, we haven’t been able to update the blog, do laundry, take trash to the dump or get water. Tonight we used up the last of our water, so we melted some snow to do the dishes. Roger hiked out to the well and brought back 15 gallons of water, so he got his exercise in for the day! J