It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood

A fantastic day up here. Only -2F and barely a breeze so it feels like summer almost. Took a long walk and easily worked up a sweat so doffed the mittens and opened the jacket. Linda has today off and has gone off snowmobiling. We did to a quick run to the package store yesterday - another $120 down the hatch! Drinking problem? Nah. Some of it was for others. Some of it.

Last post talked about things to come and they are! We've had three consecutive nights of lights with each night better than the last. The second night there was a burst of moving lights above our heads which only lasted for about 45 seconds but was great for those of us outside to see it or up in the inside dome. Unfortunately, the camera was set on a 20 second exposure which was way too slow for what was happening and fumbling with gloved hands (it was darn cold outside) prevented me from getting any shots. But it is something to remember - and a reason for some of you to take the journey up north some day. Then, last night, I went out a few times, got some nice shots including some "curtains" but then went to bed about 1030 as I had morning KP. There was some commotion in the hall, however, shortly after that which usually means either a bear is in the building (LOL) or the lights are getting good again. So Linda went out with the camera but once again gloved hands fouled our shooting as she messed up the focus and didn't get what turned out to be very nice energetic lights - I saw some other folks' pictures.

Pressure ridge and faint blue line above it showing a lead of open water which can generate fog

Oh, well. There is always tonight and so far the sky is looking good. Although I have morning KP again tomorrow, I'm going to try to get in a nap and set up an intravenous line for coffee in the morning.

not a great pic but shows a little curtain dropping down

 Tomorrow, Monday, the Tundra School high school students are going to shoot off their model rockets which is appropriate as this is an old missile range where they did, among other things, aurora research. More on that tomorrow with all the pics I took today of the old range buildings as I walked out to replace a geocache I had borrowed (was waiting for a nice day to replace it).

Hope to have better pics for tomorrow - you really need to experience it for yourself! And hope to have some missile shots, too.