MARCH ALREADY?

Last weekend we had some amazing 40 above weather but soon reality hit and we went back to having -11 and -14 degrees each morning but warming up that same name number but above zero weather in the day. This morning is the first time all week that it’s been above zero in the morning.  We’ve had no new snow in weeks.  The winter accumulation was at eleven inches but with the wind and some slight melt-age the level reads at nine inches. 

So, as usual, last week I gave out some misinformation - I wrote, "This is the second year in a row that they’ve been presented with the Cooperator of the Year award from the Salcha-Delta Soil & Water Conservation District.”  My bad.  It should’ve said it was the second time every that Tony and S & K have received that award.  We are especially proud of our own May Buongiorne - our garden manager who was also a part of the award ceremony. The Williams and May put together a short PowerPoint explaining what the farm is all about, Tony talked about what goes on in the large crop and horse farming arena, Wendy talked about her greenhouse projects and May talked about her gardening and what she has learned in the last few years managing our 3 acre community garden. projects. 

There is a short video if anyone would like to see it. It is rather grainy since the lighting was poor. The PowerPoint is also available. Here is a photo of the group presenting. Taken by the local news rag so not super clear.

Our cheese lady Sarah, recently found a guy who paints canvases of cheese, doughnuts, meat cuts, etc.  He painted her spicy Gouda which we named Winter Fury and Amaris’ Toscano Pepato.  Here are the links to his canvases.  http://mikegeno.com/catalog/art_viewer.php?artworkID=345&sortBy=0&category=0&startNum=1 and http://mikegeno.com/catalog/art_viewer.php?artworkID=347&sortBy=0&category=0&startNum=1

Miss Elle from Maine has gone home.  We enjoyed her visit, and I’m pretty sure that she enjoyed her visit with us.  Jairo Cruz is still here.  He is jolly fellow who has fit right in with us.  He is a photography pro and brings  his enthusiasm and know how that the HS photography class and to all those who do photography.  He’s been teaching the students how to take environmental portraits with flash and lights.

I was asked to put out these new contact phone numbers for the Gentrys:  new Robin House Tel. is 907-332-2017 and Cell is 907-885-8140

Some of the loggers are doing a logging job near Fairbanks.  They will be gone for three weeks or so.  They may be home some weekends.  I heard they are staying with Jason Tate.  Only a couple of loggers are there actually.  They rest are still home.  

Carolyn came home after a  week of babysitting her grands in Fairbanks.  She will have to do more babysitting later as the surgery for Sam’s mother in law was not able to happen yet.  The surgery was rescheduled.  Bonnie has taken off for a trip to Maine.  

Rob and Gri continue to travel back and forth to the Dot Lake school for what is called e-therapy. This is a new online tool that makes otherwise unavailable therapy - to school that live in outlying areas and not connected to a large town/city - our school falls into that category. We make use of the faster internet service and are able to offer our high school students online courses and in Rob's case some speech therapy done in the style of "skyping". It's actually quite cool.

The backyard creek is starting to show its existence and the ice is slushy...some of our snowshoeing and skiing trails are unusable but we continue to go out as much as we can.

Have a great day!

Here’s a pic of Bro Rus and Sis Millie deciding when they will go home after supper.