I can hardly believe it has been over a month since my last posting. I think about making an entry quite often, I just never seem to get around to doing it.
Winter has become more normal now. Low temps just below zero F and high temps around 10. We seem to get measurable snow about once a week so we now have about 36 inches on the ground. Last Saturday we got a dump of over 13 inches and it could not have come at a worse time. I had agreed to help Scott pick up a new car in Wasilla so I had to drive all the way to Anchorage in a really bad snow storm. Good thing was that since the weather was so bad Scott thought it best if he drove his old car back to Anchorage which ment I got to drive the new car. The new car is a 2004 Pontiac Vibe with all wheel drive. Scott had mentioned once when he was having trouble with the old Civic that that was what he would like to replace the Civic with. I kept an eye out and found one for sale and let him know so now he's got a new car. After helping Scott with the car I had to start cleaning up the snow around our place. It's getting hard to find room to push the snow into. The burms around our parking area are over 6 feet high so I have to use our snow blower for a lot of the snow removal. In the next 24 hours we are supposed to get another 15 or so inches and it is going to be the heavy wet kind since it is suppose to warm up and maybe even rain a little. I hope it gets over in time for this weekend because this is Iditarod weekend and Mary and I are going to an Iditarod party on Crystal Lake. I'm suppose to help drag wood down for a bonfire so I hope the snow isn't too deep. The weekend before last I helped the Willow Dog mushers build a mushers cabin about 25 miles up the Yentna River. We got to stay in a nice cabin and got the mushers cabin to usable state. My little Skandic snowmobile ended up hauling the heaviest load because one of the other snowmobiles broke down. It made for a long trip because we had to keep the speed down plus the guys I was with are dog mushers and don't really like riding snowmobiles that much.
I've started maintaining the web pages for Willow Health Organization at www.waco-ak.org. Our friend Nina is President of WHO and wanted some new features added to the web site. The main website is run by WACO and they control what can be done quite closely, for good reason. We wanted to have emailable forms and be able to keep track of how many people visit the site and WACO didn't have the capabilities to do that. I offered some space on the server that I maintain for Bleatinghearts.homelinux.com and registered a new site with dyndns.org so we can have our own server that runs scripts that I can write. We also have capabilities to maintain an online database using MYSQL so as long as I am able to the health organization will have a pretty nice site.
That's it for this entry. I'll try to update more often. (Were have I heard that before)
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