oh good grief can it get any weirder around here? ok ok so i am on a mission , seem to do alot of those these days of course it comes with the terrritory of living with the grands. this mission was to go to costco and buy some tang since its kai mans visit again today and tomorrow. last night a friend of hubbys came over and put a ggood tire on the truck for me since that am when mike an i were on our way to get his last pay check we discovered we had a flat tire . good thing it was while we were in the drive way and not out on the road. unfotunitly that put a major crink in our getting around for that day. but today i was on a roll. cookies too GG grams kai asked as i left. i am happy just getting out the door wish i had a car seat sometimes i would take him with i bet he is a hoot to shop with driving along singing at the top of my lungs " fly me to the moon" and i get out on eagn drive just happy as a good old alaskan clam. turn the major corner at 55 and from there on out is is all straight shot driving right to the next turn off. butttttttttt i suddenly stop singing and i am yelling HOLY CRAP !!!!!!!!!! there were mattresses all over 3/4 of the road.!!!!!!! some poor lady moving her stuff dumped her bunk beds and single beds all over the road mattresses bed rails you name it all over the place and she is in the middle of the highway with traffic coming at her trying her best to drag what she can off the highway. there was absolutly now were to bail at . and i am stomping on my breaks hoping like mad i dont run into the person in front of me. whohad to come to a complete hault to keep from running over all of this stuff. sooooo once i got safely around i went on my way and bought tang pepsi oranges bannanas and i even found time to bake cookies the costco way LOL guess we can add mattresses to that ever growing bunch of it rains here huh LOL what in the world would i do with out god in my life. .......... hummm dont even want to know but sure am glad my gardian angel was driving with me today _________________Hugs and love and tons of prayers from me Crissy in Alaska

I got a post from someone I know asking me if it was true. after all its all over the news even i saw it as a ticker down on the bottom of fox news.
Juneau Alaska was with out power for awhile because an eagle holding a deer head flew into a power box they later found the eagle dead.

My reply was this .

yep its all over the news up here. I lost ours for a second but my daughter was with out for over an hour. talk about the pits now we can actually say in Alaska it don't rain cats and dogs it rains eagles and deer heads LOL hey nothing like being Alaskan got to change it all, even our animals are on that wave length.

Of course leave it to me to think what was that eagle thinking hum maybe he was mad at the state legislators for some reason and decided to dive bomb the place. Gesh ya never know huh. Maybe Bush can add this eagle to his list of known terrorists LOL no no wait the eagle died in the deer head bombing. oh daaaaaaaaa I get it a suicide deer head bombing eagle. LOL
For shame crissy the eagle is our national bird. ok with that I am going to go do penance and clean my house. drink large amounts of coffee and drive away in my truck that the flat is now fixed on.:)

and here you thought I just made this stuff up huh?:) like my daughter said though when she found out why she was late for work hey its a Manic Monday Alaskan style LOL

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here is the actual news paper clip from Juneau Empire our local news paper
author below the article

About 10,000 Juneau residents lost power Sunday after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into an Alaska Electric Light & Power transmission system in Lemon Creek."You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario," said Gayle Wood, an AEL&P spokeswoman. "This is the story of the overly ambitious eagle who evidently found a deer head in the landfill."
The meal was apparently too heavy. The eagle failed to clear transmission lines as it flew from the landfill toward the Lemon Creek Operation Center, she said. When a repair crew arrived, they found the eagle carcass with the deer head nearby.
The outage started about 9:45 a.m. and affected customers in Salmon Creek, Lemon Creek, the Mendenhall Valley and Out the Road, Wood said. It was completely fixed by 10:28 a.m.
"It was a speedy recovery because a crew was already mobilized, and because a customer managed to hear the explosion," Wood said. "So we were able to narrow it in pretty quickly."
The landfill has a program in place to discourage eagles, ravens and other birds from feeding, she said. But this eagle "got a hold of a little bit more than he could handle."
"This would have been a major score," Wood said. "That eagle would have been the king eagle of the Lemon Creek group."
• Ken Lewis can be reached at ken.lewis@juneauempire.com.

now dont get me wrong i love winter just as much as the next guy. my son loves the rain LOL call me nuts but everyone has limits right?
today mine kicked in high gear. ughhhhhhhh i did my best to walk the dogs outside. but decided as i was trying like mad to hang onto anything i could that i didnt want to try out for the ice capades no wayyyyyy . i managed to get them out there though. and slipped every which way i could think of on all that ice. geshhhhhhh grabbing at the tail of my 4 wheel drive truck i did my best not to fall but had visions of sliding under the dang thing LOL i kept begging both dogs not to pull on me to hard. please i dont want to spend any time in any casts at all unless it is maybe a cast of some good play on stage LOL not sure i could pull that off again but sounds like fun.
i am beginning to have vissions of spring and summer and i am bitting at the bit to get out there and enjoy it all. go put me toes in some sand and enjoy the salt air. see how long i can watch as the clouds roll by me and watch the fish swim by while others fish. and of course drag my camera with and tuck some colored pencils under my arm and just go go go until the snow flys again.
yep i think i am more then ready. but until that time comes i guess its just another week end of taking cyber vactions and running amuck on line . told my cuz that in email she said ok but while your out there dont run anyone over ok. sighhhhhh ok ok i will be careful. and while i was reading that i was thinking what is the speed limit on line anyway LOL

ok some how some day i will figure this out. this one wont let me have a title bar or a comment area grrrrrrrr.
so i have no clue if anyone takes a look see at all
eventually i would like to put pictures in here of where i am located so you all can see those too. but for now i just muddle though and learn
snow today again and the birds are not flying instead i can see huge crows sitting on top of the elec poles looking at the huge snow flakes as they come down :)

oh cool i am upgraded LOL
anyway. i got this phone call today from my son now living in the portland area and he said they have snowwwwww! he is just happy about it to see something of home in an area he probably wouldnt normally see.
he laughs at the way others drive in snow . why because he grew up in alaska with snow so deep sometimes you would gettup in the am depending on the type of car you were driveing and about have to dig it out before you could drive away. it was so deep at times i would think we would soon need some sort of red flags tied to our antannas just to be able to locate the cars LOL
fact is i havent seen this much snow like were getting this year in ages. but that is ok i am enjoying every last flake of it . because its not here for long anyway. and yea your stuck at home alot of times but hey those are times well spent by this gal.
i got hobbies you know yep armed and dangrous with hobbies.
besides cleaning the same room until i wear it out .
i do things like knit up a storm LOL this is the time of year i get ahead on things like next years christmas list .
or i read books and go on adventures and vacations through those.
or i so alot of working on scrapbooks here
or making cards
or i do alot of blogging or running around on line taking vertual tours of other places i may never get to see
and of course i have the tv with cable to fall back on if all else fails LOL
am i ever totally alone. not on your life. there is always a stream of family members running through here.
ok enough of me time to go have coffee.

am coffee and earthquakes?
ugh....... thought the story about the snow plow driver was funny . well this one isnt .
i am sitting here at my pc getting ready to post to my knitting blog when the house shook. not to bad and i am thinking who is moving heavey equipment this time of the am. i got used to that when they were moving the debree of the old chruch across the way that burned .
but something said stand up and take a look see. cause the shaking got worse. all i did was get up and step into the frontroom and the old hurricane lamps on top of the entertainment center were rocking wildly and making that glass banging sound. the house began to sway and not gently at all.
i began to feel massive fear and began to yell at my sleeping grandson on the couch and my hubby in the bedroom "EARTHQUAKE EARTHQUAKE!!!!" none of us was dressed or ready for this at all. and to run out in our pjs in this cold alaskan weather would have been just as bad as standing still in the middle of a door jam . our grandson didnt move one inch but hubby ran as he could to the bedroom door.
we found out it wa a 5.7 or greater center of which was about 100 miles away.
that is way to close for comfort for me .
our daugher called from the valley " mom did you ??????? i said the earthquake sure did she said " i thought that was what it was thought i was loosing it and feeling things that werent happening. finally she said it shook her home so bad her front door popped open.
am i still in my pj's????? not on your life. no way i went right to my room and got dressed. shoved usb port plug and plays in my pockets a flash light my usb port sony walkman
and my cell phone and adapter so just in case if i have to i can recharge it.
jsut the basics i got one of those usb ports that i can back up the pcs with 8 gigs
after the fire across the street and having to grab and run then i am slowly working on getting everything down to shove in pockets and run leave it all behind that is to bulky to carry.
oh sigh what a way to begin a day.

nothing like winter and tons of snow. ugh. frist it snows then it rains then it melts and then it freezes and then it begins all over again.
buttttttttttttt
last night while we were driving home in the middle of a snow storm it was just breath takingly beautiful. as the car went foraward in motion we were treated to what looked like a scene out of star wars. snow coming at us dancing across the windshield as though to its own unheard music yet streaking by so fast at times it looked like a million stars going by fast on their way to who knows where.
visablity was some where if lucky one city block and ours here are not long city blocks. and that was even when we got off the high way and onto regular sity blocks .
all that for 5 inches of snow. it is now 7:10 am and its pitch black out there. awe well it wont be long and spring will be here and then it will be time to go see the world with out the snow and enjoy life with some heat and sunshine and go walk the beaches and dip me toes in the cool alaskan waters. :)
have a wonderful year where ever you are.