Haven't blogged in awhile.  I don't know if life here is just a bit boring right now or I'm not very creative right now.  Its been snowing for a few days (nothing new here), and the temperature has been about the same as southern California and Texas!   Imagine that!

It is strange living in a place that is designed for winter weather.  It ices, it snows, we go on with life.   I remember ice storms in Texas.   We would be ranch-bound for a several days.  We didn't have 4 wheel drives or snow tires, and neither did anyone else.   Actually we don't even have a 4 wheel drive now, just front wheel drive and snow tires.   This has worked fine so far (except for the one day we got stuck in our driveway in the slush, but that was only because we didn't shovel our snow plow hump enough, then it turned to slush, and our car doesn't have a very high clearance.   Yes, we learned our lesson .

We went on a field trip to the local radio station, very educational field trip.   The boys said they enjoyed it - it wasn't as good as seeing fish eyeballs and fish guts, but they seemed to think it was ok.

I'm looking forward to seeing more daylight.  The snow has been nice, it really brightens things up, and the days are getting a bit longer, but we still only have about 7 hours of daylight, which is pretty good for Alaska, but I'm dreaming of sunlight and blue skies, and sitting in the warm sun.   One of these days we will visit back in Texas, and I'm just going to sit in the warm sun for a whole day and "defrost".

Tristan is addicted to handstands right now.  He's learning to walk on his hands as well.  It gets a bit treacherous in our small house - he's a regular monkey - but he really is a natural at gymnastics.  I think he has the body for it.  He's small, thin, but strong (like me!  ha ha!)

Take a look at how big Scampy is getting.  Here he's trying to get lovey dovey with Tar Baby (which reminds me... he needs a little visit to the vet sometime soon for some tutoring... if you know what I mean).

Take a look at Scampy's eyebrow whiskers.   Yes, if you recall from previous photos that I posted here,  like this one:

he used to have beautiful long white eyebrow whiskers.   A certain little someone, I won't mention names, decided that he didn't need those whiskers and needed a little hair cut.   He cut off completely the left side and gave a trim on the right!   Uggh... I was so mad when I saw that.  Poor kitty.

Seeing this last photo reminds me, Nathan got his sketch pad and charcoal out the other day and offered his own rendition:

I thought it turned out really nice.