hands

A 3 part story.

I remember hearing a story about a husband that wanted to divorce his wife, at the hearing the judge asked her if she had anything to say, and she stood up showing her hands, and telling the judge how these hands had cooked his meals, washed his clothes, raised his children, the tired scarred hands had done all that for the man she loved.  (I am sure there is more to the story but that's all I remember).

Part 2, most of my life I have been taken for a younger age than I really am, not saying it's my good looks or anything like that, I just think it's mostly part to clean living, I have never put a cigarette in my mouth, or ever been drunk, I am sure the cancer and a bad marriage or two had the most to do with aging.  When I worked at the airlines, there was one pilot that was quite the ladies man (or so he thought, he got into a lot of trouble with sexual harassment) but when the subject of my age came up he said let me see your hands, when he looked at my hands he guess my age correctly.

So the conclusion of this 3 part story is, recently when I am doing something with my hands I look down and say in surprise who's hands are those. 

snow

Feel like it's the same theme this spring, SNOW, I drove to Homer yesterday after work, went to a quilt show, then visited at a friends house for a bit.  Was going to meet up with another couple for a bite to eat and show them the boat, he likes to sail.  While I was on the phone with them, when I was inside the grocery store,  deciding where we were going to meet up, she says "I think its snowing out side", I looked at the people in the store and could hear and see lips saying snow, so I walked to the window and looked outside sure enough it was snowing.  My smart phone is acting up so I couldn't take a picture with that, so dug out the camera and it had a dead battery so couldn't take a picture with that.  Oh well just take my word for it, at least this time, Springtime in Alaska isn't 40 below.

Vacation

I have a few days off from work, good thing I am ready, my computer broke at work and they sent a new one, well lots of updates and different looking stuff, and a new upgrade on the system that is used. to much change at once for my non computer brain.  So by the time I get back from vacation hopefully a computer person will have some time to walk me through some things.  Was going to fly some where for a visit but that didn't work out, so I am going to spend a birthday with son #2, who is going to be 30 and I can't believe it, when I asked him what he wanted to do he said "arnt you suppose to do something special on your golden birthday" I looked at the calender it said 30 and he is going to be 30 and I about dropped when did that happen how did he get to be that old and I didn't even realize it, which really means I am getting old, yuck.  For the remaining days of my vacation I am going to hang out with the mechanic on the boat, hope we actually get to go boating and he doesn't make me work on the darn thing the whole time, not really complaining I am one very fortunate gal.

Spring time in Alaska

Today is April 7, 2012, and it's snowing.   Two weeks ago it was 9 below in the morning, spring really is on its way, but winter is not letting go with out a fight.  Got 2 packages of bee's ordered, wasn't so sure I was going to do that again, but it is a hobby, I am sure $100.00 a ounce is really not cost effective shopping, but there is more to having bee's than that, the bee's should be here on the 13th.  All is well so haven't been blogging much, hopefully with summer there will be more pictures and activities to share.  I have spent lots of time of the snow machines, was out 2 nights ago, but the snow is hard packed and was a nice ride just a bit rough. 

last saturday

 Last Saturday I took the day off work and went on a snow machine ride, it was a fund raiser for cancer patients, quite a success full event, they raised allot of money.  We made costumes for the event we were abominable snowmen.  There is also a bra contest, this bra wasn't in the contest, the theme was wild and woolly, we were woolly and the bra girl was the wild.

                                                         This group was the smurfs.

                                         This is my snow machine, I put pink bows on the back.

                         There were 102 women that rode and each group had a cabana boy with them.

                                                                        The celebrity.

The guy that lead us on the ride got off the designated trail and took us on a few side trips, this was a knob that has a great view of the area we rode.  There is lots of snow this year so it was a surprise to see dirt, guess it's kind of windy up there.  After wearing that white suit all day, the last leg of my day was to go back to my car and I almost felt naked with out the suit, they sure were nice and warm. 

little road trip

                                     
                                                            Matanuska Glacier

                                                                    Long Lake

There is a new project in the garage, found on craigslist, and some more stuff to go with the project was also found on craiglist, but this part was up in Tok, 500 miles away from home.  So after work we drove north, spend the night in Anchorage, drove the rest of the way next day, got some dinner, hotel room, watched a movie, spent the night.  Then the plan was to get breakfast at 7am when the cafe opened and hit the road, well it is official, we have turned into old people, because at 4 am we couldn't sleep any more, so got ready to leave stopped at the gas station for coffee and hit the road at 5am.  Which was nice because the drive didn't take up the whole day, took turns sleeping and got the Anchorage about noon, got to visit with daughter and grandbaby for a few hours before the rest of the drive home.  Some one at worked asked me if I went to Anchorage for my days off, No I said drove to Tok, they were suprised, because it's not a weekend destination.  I enjoyed the whole trip as you can see it was a beautiful sunny drive there.

my hound

My ole hound took her last walk, 1/26/12.

Because they are eager to please, loving, intelligent and confident, they make a splendid companion dog for an owner willing to give them proper exercise. Because this breed requires intense exercise to match its energy levels, Walker hounds cannot settle for mere walks in the neighborhood. (copy from Internet)

It's hard to lose a companion that was there for 13 years.  She was always aware of where I was and never left me, never ran away from home, and was always happy to see me.  I am relieved that she didn't suffer, that she was still able to get around and old age wasn't so hard for her.  I knew she was not going to last much longer but was hoping she would still be around come spring.  I am going to miss her lots.