A Florida Cracker in the Last Frontier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0yGvypBwyA  Informer - Snow I know this is a weird song choice but whenever I hear "snow" I automatically thing of this cheesey song from around Middle School (maybe high school). I just learned that Snow was from Canada, you can't make this stuff up. I wonder if he was a bastard like Jon Snow... I mean I know Jon is actually Aegon and not a bastard but bastards of the North were given the last name "Snow". Sorry for my trip into Game of Thrones. Anyways, it snowed on Saturday, October 21st! It was chilly in the morning and I had already planned to change the tire tires out and while I was at it change out the air filter, cabin air filter, and wipers. While I was at it I was going to change the brake pads. Well, that was the plan... the auto parts store gave me a power steering motor instead of an engine air filter (I knew that thing felt too heavy) and Kendall Toyota gave me the wrong size brake pads. On my way to e...

Ice, Ice, Baby - Vanilla Ice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rog8ou-ZepE  I am so behind on blog posts. I have been super busy at work and to be honest the last thing I think of doing on home is hopping back on another computer, just seems a lot like work. We had a week straight of ice. It was pretty cold, one day it was down to 8 and had a few days that didn't get higher than 21. It made all the rain water freeze into ice. So, Gracen (and the other neighborhood kids for that matter) started throwing ice on to the street to watch it shatter. I has all fine with the cold and ice but I had to use a work vehicle and had to scrape the windows and heat the thing up. The inside of the windows had water streaming off them once they started to warm up, so I had to clean them off. All of this told me, snow is coming soon and I planned to switch my tires on Saturday morning. As far as dressing for the cold, I wore my base layers and they worked really well but being wool ...

To everything (turn, turn, turn) There is a season (turn, turn, turn) And a time to every purpose, under heaven A time to be born, a time to die A time to plant, a time to reap A time to kill, a time to heal A time to laugh, a time to weep A time to gain, a time to lose A time to rend, a time to sew A time for love, a time for hate A time for peace, I swear it's not too late Turn! Turn! Turn! - The Byrds   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4ga_M5Zdn4 Whenever I think of the seasons changing I think of this song. I surprised first of all that it was not sung by the Beatles. I knew it came from the Bible, Ecclesiastes. I was also surprised to learn that the song was written by Pete Seeger. We are approaching the end of Fall. I arrived at the end of Winter in March and have almost seen the whole cycle of seasons. I was pleasantly surprised to experience Spring. I realized it was Spring by two things that  occurred. First the snow on the mountains receded ...

Someday I Suppose - Mighty Mighty Bosstones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOmAuhAQbE There was a girl and I don't know her name either She gave me love and I swore I'd never leave her If I did I'd come back someday and find her Maybe I will I should write down a reminder One day! One day who knows Someday I suppose There was a verse that I was gonna write I haven't yet But there's still a chance I might An open book That I still want to close I'll find the time Someday I suppose A place and time, I want to be and spend a storyline That's happy in the end If you've never watched the old 90's music videos for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones... stop what you are doing right now and watch, such a nostalgia trip! Growing up a Bosstones fan when I think plaid, I think of them first. I've watched plaid in different fashions since high school but in Alaska I've had a explosion of plaid. I bought some Carhartt flannel at Val...

Here Comes the Rain Again by The Eurythmics https://youtu.be/TzFnYcIqj6I When Lorrie came in June it rained for almost a week straight. Rain came and went but August was one of the wettest in recent Alaska history. We had several weeks where rain was spotty and not that bad. But now it has been rainy for three days. 4th Floor Loussac Library Here comes the rain again... It's funny I thought I'd enjoy living in Seattle or another rainy city but it gets annoying fast. I don't mind the grey and lack of sun so much but I'm not a fan of getting wet especially from 40 degree rain. Lorrie calls the rain here "fake rain" because it is light and misty and not that big drops, torrential downpour that we have in Florida. The other thing that we miss (sort of) is we don't have thunderstorms like we did in "the Lightning capital of the world" Tampa. I know it's not rain but I took this picture Monday 10/2/17 and I really like it Lots of peo...