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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 19 2007 : 10:17:39 PM
Well, it's starting, we're gearing up for the Iditarod. We're hosting volunteers this year, so I'll bring you up to date!! The Iditarod is sort of the winter carnival here, our mushers like sports stars. Shoot, they are sports stars!!
So I posted this for the volunteers, so they can choose their housing........
http://homepage.mac.com/thomja/PhotoAlbum18.html
Is this okay girls??? jo
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 29 2007 : 7:47:02 PM
Kate, you'll have to "stop by"! It is unbelievable how vast it is. 600,000 people in the entire state, and it is huge, the tip of the aleutian chain could touch San Francisco and the other end reach to the edge of Florida. when you fly in a bush plane there is NO ONE for miles and miles. I would never live anywhere else! Paul's cooking supper, gotta go! take care little Kate jo
"life is drab without a lab"
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| Tracey |
Posted - Jan 29 2007 : 5:49:29 PM
One person per mile...sigh...of course, you'd have to put up with snow and ice and what would seem, to me anyway, eternal darkness in the winter. But I sure could go for the population!
DD's school used to make a huge deal of the iditarod; each class had a team that was 'theirs' and they'd follow it through the race. It's always sounded like fun to me. Think my Shih'Skimo could do it? (Shih Tsu/Eskimo cross...it's our designer name for him!)
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| katiedid |
Posted - Jan 29 2007 : 4:36:53 PM
Jo..On the travel channel today, (at the Dentist's office) they had a show on Alaska, the show said that the population is so low, and the land mass is so HUGE that it averages one person per mile!
I can just imagine that it takes a whole lifetime to see all of the beauty and magesty that is Alaska..
I was talking to my friend Jackie, from Fairbanks, who got an Alaska Airlines credit card and is using it to pay for everything, so we can plan a trip as soon as she has enough air miles...I can't wait.
I love learning more about Alaska...I just read a great book about the last woman (or man) for that matter, who applied for the Homesteading Act in Alaska..I think it was in the early 1980s it was a fascinating book.
I WILL get there some day...and I can't wait.
Love and light to you, Jo
Kate
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 22 2007 : 11:01:17 PM
Here's the link to the Iditarod, bookmark it! jo
http://www.iditarod.com/
"life is drab without a lab"
http://homepage.mac.com/thomja/Anchorage/PhotoAlbum15.html |
| catscharm74 |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 9:45:52 PM
Your pictures are beautiful!!! It looks so peaceful and so do you and your family- all critters included!!! Thank you for sharing. |
| brightmeadow |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 7:58:12 PM
Well, we finally got our first real snow this weekend - we have an accumulation of about 2 inches....I went out to dig carrots today and was irritated because the top two inches of the ground is finally frozen. I have to laugh seeing your pictures! YOU know what real snow is! It must be wonderful.
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 4:23:43 PM
The air is sweeter Kate, sometimes we sleep downstairs in the summer with the window open and smell the air coming off the icefields, it is amazing, our dogs don't need bathing, they get "Snow scrubbed" I swear they smell wonderful!! We skiied out to a place one day and just stood there and cried.......... it was a view of all of the mountains, nothing but wilderness and I was just overwhelmed, I know that no matter what, that beauty will be here and no one can build and destroy or would want to. It is absolute wilderness and it grounds you, makes you heal all up and feel good. I wish I could share that with all of you. Thanks for your sentiment too Kate........... jo
"life is drab without a lab"
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| Luzy |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 4:22:39 PM
Holy Cow Jo!! You have a beautiful home, dogs, family and area! Thanks for the great pictures! We have a neighbor that is moving to Willow, Alaska. I'd REALLY love to visit your wonderful state sometime. I've always been in love with Alaska and all the wildlife, especially the moose and eagles! Thanks again for the pictures, Big Hugs,Lu
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| katiedid |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 4:12:25 PM
Wow! I just looked thru your album...I love your home! YOur dogs! Wow!
I have a fascination with Alaska...I read about it all the time...I am going to visit at least twice...Once in the summer so I can see Denali Nat'l Park, and once in the winter so I can see the Northern lights....
One of my best friends grew up in Fairbanks, and tells me about the beauty and magesty of Alaksa all the time...she says the air is sweeter and she just feels "grounded" there...I love your pictures...
Thanks for sharing your sentimenality with us, I love it!
Love and light to you
Kate
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| ddmashayekhi |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 08:16:27 AM
Thanks for the Northern Exposure pictures! I loved going through them all. You have a beautiful home, view, and family!
Dawn in IL |
| TillieB |
Posted - Jan 21 2007 : 06:23:45 AM
Jo,
I just set my homepage with the Iditarod homepage, I'm a fan. Please keep us posted with insider stories. It's such a cool thing and lost on many.
Marjorie |
| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 11:52:16 PM
p.s. just so you're aware, it's my "previous name" I use on herr, not my married Peyton Name...........
check out "Sophie's Eye"s, I LOVE THIS!!!! jo
"life is drab without a lab"
http://homepage.mac.com/thomja/Anchorage/PhotoAlbum15.html |
| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 11:42:37 PM
I changed the link! Needed to make it more wintery!!
Thanks girls!
http://homepage.mac.com/thomja/PhotoAlbum19.html
"life is drab without a lab"
http://homepage.mac.com/thomja/Anchorage/PhotoAlbum15.html |
| lilpunkin |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 10:46:44 PM
LOL! I am still laughing because when i first read the title of this post i thought It said Idiotrod! Oh I think I should really go to bed!
Jo the link didnt work for me, maybe I am the only one. Or maybe yet again its late! And i should go to bed! I would love to see picture updates. It sounds like a wonderful time.
Lilpunkin
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| daffodil dreamer |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 10:39:29 PM
Jo,
That will be great fun! I'll come to stay, although I'm no sports star! I just love the photos you have posted of your place.
Best wishes,
Jayne |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 7:53:03 PM
I just love to follow the ididarod....I think it is such an exciting sport!! How fun to get to house volunteers and be involved like that!! I would love to see Alaska some day..how cool is that????
Jenny in Utah
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 7:51:05 PM
I would love to ...........not very realistic but it would be fun especially since my class consists of exactly 4 students! ;)
We were hoping we might get stationed there and actually have friends at Fort Rich right now - although I think they actually live in Willow or Wasilla.
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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| jo Thompson |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 10:22:22 AM
Holly, Barstow! I've actually been there many times!!! Sure bring your class!! I really love the race, all the dogs, it's really a big deal. They have three times as many volunteers as they have spaces for them. I think we're hosting someone from Australia who's coming all this way to volunteer!! jo
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| ArmyWifey |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 07:54:41 AM
Can we come visit? We follow online and this is our Unit Study for March most years! Have never got to actually be there but what fun!
As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!
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| willowtreecreek |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 05:32:17 AM
Oh cool! My hubby loves the Iditarod and I try to get him a Patch and the Coin every year! We visited Anchorage one year and got to see part of the race. He has been hooked EVER SINCE! We often look for teaching positions up there but have yet to "take the plunge" and actually do it! :)
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| Beemoosie |
Posted - Jan 20 2007 : 04:05:24 AM
Oh, how fun! I volunteer to stay at your house! HEHE! You have the happiest looking dogs in the world! And of course, I love the moose picture, Jo!
XO
Bonnie
My soul magnifies the Lord, And my spirit rejoices in God my Savior. Luke 1:46,47
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