Springtime in Alaska

Par for the course -- it snows like crazy when D is out of town. This springtime dump lasted about 24 hours.

I snapped this yesterday morning before leaving for work.

Halfway through the day.

Leaving work. I left a lot later than usual so as to miss most of the traffic.

At Lake Otis & Tudor - the city will begin work on this intersection (widely recognized as the worst in town) this weekend and finish up by the end of July. I need to fiind an alternate route to work ASAP!

Arrived home to lots of snow all over. Most of the yard was clear 2 days ago and we could see actual grass. So much for that. Drift is ecstatic about the weather-- he rolled his big yellow body all over the new snow.

We played fetch with the dummy for a while and then took off on a 45-minute walk. It was after 9 p.m. when I took these photos so you can see that our daylight is definitely increasing!

Looking the other way down 72nd. Pretty pink sky is a nice after-effect of the sunset. The snow was still falling!

Woke up this morning to sun streaming through the bedroom windows. The weather forecasters say to enjoy it while we can -- tomorrow we'll see cloudy skies (but temps in the low 40's - yay!) for the next few days.

Laundry room update

Are you sick of reading about our laundry room yet? I just get really excited when we near the end of any remodeling project. D is a super fast worker and I try not to push him into any sort of schedule because he has a really good work ethic and always completes a project. I mean, he finished our complete kitchen overhaul in like 2.5 weeks and that must be some sort of record. Me on the other hand - I took close to half an hour to chisel out the setting for a closet doorknob. (Yeah, I'm slow.)

There are some minor finishing details that need to be addressed, like trim and the pocket door, but we're close! This room is a combination laundry/utility/storage space, so it's doing triple duty.

Tuesday update

D arrived home late Friday night and then left again on Monday afternoon. I sure hope he gets a brown bear because we're going on week 2 of spring hunting. It's like his full time job now! I don't mind though - it makes him happy and we both like to have time apart to really appreciate our time together.

But what happens when your significant other leaves town? That's right - something goes wrong. The wind has been whipping through town over the last few days. Although we don't have it as bad as the eastside or hillside, the trees were swaying pretty heavily in the yard. Our side gate only falls open in very windy weather and I didn't even think about it when I let Drift out this morning. Then he was nowhere to be found in the backyard when I wanted to leave for work and I realized the wind must have really been bad overnight to blow that gate open. He ended up being down the culdesac in a neighbor's side yard. Yeah, it's always fun to run around the neighborhood in nice work clothes and heels, yelling for your dog.

Had a wedding dress fitting at the house on Saturday and I think it went well. My mom's dress originally had a high neck and long sleeves, so the alterationist removed those and then pinned up around me to work on the fit. She said we have at least 2 more fittings to do.

I had the printer send my wedding invites down to my sister in California because it was 5 times more expensive to ship them up here to Alaska! Totally ridiculous. I'm excited to see them - the quality is better and overall the price was cheaper than what I was quoted from local print houses. Risha had to pick up the packages directly from UPS since they apparently cannot find her house. I'm a little concerned with California UPS because the CSR told me someone had talked to my sister about the package (did not happen), left a slip on her door (negative), and reported that she has moved (um, no). Meanwhile, Alaska UPS rocks -- I had a UPS woman deliver a package to me at home (off the clock) because she felt bad that I had made a useless trip down to the pick-up center.