The blowing snows have finally abated (for now) and the sun has come out. There is a lot of snow out there though and the town is trying to open all the roads and haul out the excess.
On February first, there was a moose by our apartment that was chased out of town by the police and volunteers. There were caribou on the ice in front of town this week and they are supposed to be close behind town right now. One theory is there have been plenty of wolves sighted out there and the feeling is they are being driven closer to town where the wolves will not go.
In mid February Patty and I traveled down to Anchorage for a week. I had three days of meetings early in the week and she had a recruiting function on Friday and Saturday. We spent some time shopping in between work responsibilities as well as house shopping for a tax break and for one day when we do decide to leave Kotzebue. We dined out most nights but we all gathered at Christy and Mike's place for a home cooked meal one night. They have been getting a lot of snow as well.
The snows continue in February and it is really piling up out there.
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.JPG "The snow outside is almost head height when sitting in the truck")
.JPG "One lane only")
.JPG "Roads in town")
.JPG "Moose tracks behind my parked snowmachine")
.JPG "Moose tracks go past our apartment")
.JPG "Patty at the Maniilaq display at the Anchorage Pharmacists Convention.")
.JPG "Our set up")
.JPG "The room before the hordes invade")
.JPG "Patty clearing the windshield before taking off")
.JPG "It's still snowing out there")
.JPG "Mike and Christy's place")
.JPG "Gotta love Alaska....keeping the drinks cold Alaska style")
.JPG "The ladies playing retro Intellivision games on their Playstation")
.JPG "Tank Battle...I loved the simpler times")
.JPG "Sitting down to eat")
.JPG "Our apartment windows are just visible on the right building")
.JPG "Folks going about their daily errands on one of the few clear days this month.")
.JPG "The National Park Service headquarters in Kotzebue")
.JPG "Our grill looks more like an ice sculpture")
.JPG "The snow is as high as our boat")
.JPG "Our four wheelers remain buried. The Maniilaq Housing folks did plow the lot where we park our big vehicles")