SUNDAY...SO FAR...

Our zero degree weather of yesterday morning began to turn colder yesterday afternoon.  By bedtime last night, we were back to -22° where it still is this morning. 

The boys have rebuilt the sides of the hockey rink, and in the milder zero-ish temps, they have begun to flood it.  Yesterday, I heard that they were also flooding the nearby road and field. 

Thomas N has gone to Anchorage/Wasilla to pick up a new tractor trailer for their logging truck.

Kathy Casey came home from helping her mother after her mom’s hip surgery.  But, then, Kathy turned right around to go into Fairbanks to do some long promised babysitting for Jewel, her daughter. Sooo, yours truly is taking her place on Sun. cook crew, and I have been asked to make my legendary curry. A recipe I got from my sister Karenza when we both lived in Spain.

Oh, and and about the sick cow… it improved, then it got worse.  Then it got better again.  It is still fine at this point.  I don’t know what he did for it.  I think he got medicine for her, and he had to help it eat by stuffing hay down her throat.  One morning, while jamming hay down her throat (that is what they have to do to make them eat to make their stomach start doing the four stomach thing), the cow chomped down on Rich’s (cowman) hand.  He had an actual through-the-skin bite mark from this cow.

Garth and Kim’s first and new email address is gkmilliron@gmail.com.  Go ahead and surprise them with some mail.  J

Lonnie Miller has recently returned from Skagway where she was visiting her daughter Brooke.  At the end of October, Brooke had her first baby – Eli.  Lonnie says the new little family is doing really good.  Kylie, who is pregnant with twins, has been put on bed rest for awhile and maybe for the rest of the pregnancy.  I see from fb that even though bed rest isn’t the most fun thing to do that Kylie is managing to handle this season of her life.

Allyson and I with some young girls – Annie, Kathryn, and Kerri are on supper tonight.  They have asked us to dress miss matched for supper tonight.  I think prizes will be given out for the best miss match.  My students do this often on Fridays.  I am always amazed at what they come up with.  

Trotzkes have gone to the states and then on to Guatemala for a couple of months.  All their kids were down to Paul’s house for Thanksgiving, but I never did see any of them.  Maybe next time. 

So Big Pat is off to the frozen Arctic, to the town of Barrow (look it up on the map, close to the Artic Circle)...so we kids are left to fend and tend the fires back home.

Oh yeah! I am making my curry dish for about 100 folks...Wish me luck...! more another day...did I say that already?

Anyhoo, Have a great Sunday!