Summer is Here! Well, Spring Anyway!

Breakup has FINALLY come to the land of the midnight sun!  OMG!

This was the latest breakup in the 97 year history of the Nenana Ice Classic contest, where people guess the day and time the tripod placed on the frozen Tanana River will float away.   

May 20th, 2:41 PM

My guess was almost a month early at April 27th, 5:01 PM... so much for an early spring!  A married couple from Kenai won the total jackpot of $318,500.   

Here is a picture from the raising of the tripod on March 3rd...

And here is a screenshot of just moments before the tripod fell on May 20th...

It truly is hard to make wagers with tricky Mother Nature!

With the weather being sunny and warm these past few days, we've made the move to June Creek!   Well... Walt and I are actually house sitting in Healy for a couple of weeks... but the kitties have officially moved in:)

Hadley had a lot of fun today, spending hours just exploring her new home.  She unsuccessfully hunted a vole, and went springing through the tall, dry grass like a cheetah through the Serengeti!

Mostly though, she just rolled around in the gravel that IS NOT SNOW ANYMORE...

Ernie still hates me for having to wrangle him into a carrier and take him from his home.   Hopefully it won't take half a year for him to warm up to me again... *sigh*

Now that the snow is mostly gone, I can't wait for green things to start popping up, and cute little baby animals to wander around!   

Geez, I guess no matter how much I think I've changed, I'm still identified as a damn hippy... *sigh*...