[Sca-cooks] OT: Weather in Oertha

[ysabeau]

I lived there for two winters (school years)...once in elementary 
and once in high school. I actually got my driver's license in 
Alaska, but I still don't drive on ice days down here. The thing 
Alaska taught me was to respect the weather.

I don't mow my grass in winter...it just doesn't grow. But then, I 
don't water it either. It goes dormant from about October until 
April. 

Just listening to the stories about Alaska is making me nostalgic. 
I wonder if that bar is still there on Turnagain Arm where you 
could sit and watch the tide roll in. It was a spectacular site on 
particularly big tides. I also remember watching the start of the 
Iditarod one year. 

Fairbanks seems like it would be like living in Lubbock. My main 
memory of Fairbanks was actually wearing shorts in the summer (we 
were visiting) because the temp was about 95 degrees. It is wide 
open plains with extremes in temperatures. I also remember it 
being very dusty. But then, these are memories of a 10 year old 
who is now 40. 

I also discovered, my junior year in high school, that it is 
necessary to make sure your hair is dry before going to catch the 
bus. I ran my fingers through my hair...and the ends broke off 
because they froze. Talk about culture shock...I'd just moved 
there from Singapore...the equator to sub arctic in less than 
month!

As for Montana as an alternative, I have my eye on a company in 
Kalispell. Unfortunately, they aren't hiring tech writers right 
now.

Ysabeau


---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Stefan li Rous <StefanliRous at austin.rr.com>
Reply-To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 01:25:31 -0600

>Ysabeau commented:
> >>>
>On the other hand...I loved living in Alaska and would do it again
>in a heartbeat. Granted, I only lived there as a kid and, being
>from Texas, the two winters of snow were a very unique experience.
><<<
>
>Huh? You mean two winters of snow each year? Or do you mean you 
lived  
>there for only two winters?
>
>Hmmm. Jousting from snowmobiles. :-)
>
> >>>
>Not sure how I would feel if I had to shovel it every winter...or
>pay to have it shoveled. But then again, I pay to have my grass
>mowed every summer.
><<<
>
>You live in Austin, as I do. You don't find yourself having to 
mow  
>your grass in the winter?
>
>Stefan
>(who got the front yard mowed two weeks ago, but still needs to 
do  
>the back.  Of course some of the reason to mow is that when you 
get  
>enough leaves, mowing the grass does a better job of chopping 
things  
>up for the compost pit than the leaf blower/vacuum.)
>--------
>THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of 
Ansteorra
>    Mark S. Harris           Austin, Texas           
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