Day 14 – Tropical Colors Burst Forth
Day 14. Provisions are running low. Down to the last pack of smoked salmon… Still have a large bag of dog food, canned green beans, and Pilot Bread™. Mind is slipping. Days running together… Dreamed about being on a boat… My pencil is almost gone. This may be the last I can write… conserving energy.
OK, it’s not that bad, but still.
There’s this appalling sight:
No, not the layer of Alaska Spring dust in my car.
No, not the 154,128 miles on the old beast.
The temperature!
It’s been two weeks now. Two weeks of May. Two weeks of blogging about the advent of spring which just seems to have decided it doesn’t like us any more.
The biggest change we’ve seen is that the world has morphed from white, to mostly white, to mostly grey, to mostly brown.
The only sign of color is this:
The omnipresent BP trash bags line the highways, full of Breakup detritus, blooming forth in tropical-colored splendor. So, yes, they CAN do a decent cleanup effort, just as long as it’s not oil.
And we continue to wait.
Fuschia salmon berry blossoms and yellow violets in Juneau, leafy green everywhere – at least a week later than normal, as if everything just got tired of waiting for sun and warmth and decided to go for the green anyway. Really, it was like, “POW! Green!”
And now for something completely different –
this study ought to disturb all hell out of Juneauites:
http://www.politicususa.com/cats-away-state-government-plays.html
Oh, look! Cruise ships! Yay!
Colorful bags look like rethuglicans attempt to create low income edible housing for the 99% ers.
Oh dear! We’re cooking here in the low 90’s. Guess I should be careful what I wish for, eh?
It is hard to believe, but as of Wednesday May 15 the birch trees have still not leafed out.
Weather prediction has possible snow for Friday night.
The good news is: slipstream hisownself signed the “repeal SB 21” referendum today! Yaaayyyyy!!!!!
What is that thingy in the top of the tree above trash bags? Looks like it fell out of jet contrail.
Chip in the windshield. 😉
Thanks for clearing that up.
..and here I was thinking it was the spaceship, coming to take Sarah and family home…..
Alaska state law states that all windshields must have at least one chip and or spider crack.
If you purchase a new car or replacement windshield you will be bless with said chip within one month.
As long as conservative ideology dominates politics in alaska no one will be allowed to see clearly.
I bought a truck this year that has a long, meandering crack across the enire windshield. I’m pretty sure they charged me extra for that.