Freeze Up aproaches

the river veiw from work. oct 9 , snow on the ground again, sunny day and the river still open , small amunt s of ice can be seen , just not with my camera. should have gone outside and got better photos. some of the last stuff nearly melted. we had a couple of nice days , everybody is running arround putting winter tires on the cars.

Snow, a crappy 4 letter word

September 30 and there out the window lies that crappy stuff, it s early enough it s only september, it wont stay....... well

The Ocean

I changed my screan saver today , i just felt like change. I choose a photo that refects what i miss , living in Alaska, the ocean. you know flat horisen , with just a little curve of the earths circle. I need to be able to view this .. hell every day would work.

i miss the Ocean.

the Rest of the photos, and car stuff

http://picasaweb.google.com/kiwijanet/Janet#

Practicing some skills for when I am away overseas and have limited computer access. see what you think
Today I am the proud new owner of some blizaks tires, 4 of them and $460 poorer, i know i should stop complaining. but complaining is fun. these are supposed to be supper tyres for driving in the snow / ice. my Friend and those that say they are good tyres but we shall see, its a long winter.
I also got to change my head lite bulb , i lost the low beam last week. you know on the side where you have to take the battery out to get to the head lite. My battery is kinda old, and it took some loosening, the spray stuff for loosening nuts is really good, got the battery out , got the lite bub back in and in the right place without touching the bulb, and everything back together all in 40 minutes flat. I'm rather proud of my self. I even had the right size ratchet in my little tool kit this helped.
yes there is still snow 0n the ground, it hasn't melted.

Janet

More photos

Photo day

Tony wanted to take some photos and i need to more decent recent ones. so for a couple of hours this morning i got to play. , the first photo session i ever ever had. if you don't count the baby ones.

it was a whole bunch of fun , the better part of 300 photos later we pulled about 50 for my preview. and you get some of them

the end of Fall

Sunday 3:30pm in the afternoon, we got snow that stayed longer than it does it Christchurch, this is the north side of my house, no i didn't get the leaves raked in time, the last couple of bags i got today, Monday.

today was windy the house across the street appeared, the leaves are all gone from the trees. today is September 29. how long does fall/ Autumn last ? well i started taking these photos in mid August.
My definition of fall is when there is snow on the ground well this stuff wont stay, 3 weeks maybe, but 95% of the leaves are gone. the calender says that fall only started last week, not the case in Fairbanks.
It was cold today, 20 when i went to work i think it made it to 40 mid afternoon. the way everyone dresses has changed polar necks , warm sweaters. I parked the car in the garage.

Here i will end the the fall series, don't know if you are interested in photos of barren trees , there is kinda ugly time of year now, till we get snow on the ground to stay.
Freeze up will not be far away. Freeze up is considered to occur when the day time high does not reach 32. This will occur between Oct 1 and Oct 15 guaranteed. in 14 years it has not failed me yet. But for now i am done talking about the weather. hopefully there will be more interesting things in life.