each day an adventure in alaska: a wee bit of wind out there today...

the fence on my connecting neighbors side went down. i was making checks periodically so it fell in between those checks.

the wind started gusting last night so i shut the door to the dog kennel...that eventually blew over as well but wasn't damaged. loads of fresh sticks for the pups to drag in and chew up. they had a great time with it all.

at one point i saw roofing shingles flying past. our roof looks fine but there are some roofs that took a hit. one roof in a place a few doors down from Speedy got blown totally off. the poor woman was apparently sleeping in a room as the roof and several feet of wall just flew off the place. she is lucky to be alive but it must have been a terrifying way to awaken.

my little free library tilted a great deal. i kept propping it back up. that will need a better footing to keep it up in the future...of course, it could just simply snap the post i guess. there is only so much you can do. nature is more powerful than anything we can create.

so there is my neighbors yard. ground is still not thawed enough to replace fence but we'll have to find a way to prop it up somehow. so far the dogs haven't shown any signs of attempting to jump into their yard, but my neighbor said they would keep the gate up and not let their rabbits into the yard til we get it fixed.

this evening the winds finally subsided and light came through. a big rainbow was seen across the sky.

it calmed enough at one point that i did some stick clear up and trimming.

it could have been worse. a few doors down you can see the gazebo thing i saw the neighbor put up last week while i was painting got shredded...this was actually early in the day when there was still fabric left...gone by later today.

power was out here for about 2 hours i think. many without power. I'm sure there are loads of trees down.

i stayed home. i felt really tired today...now i am feeling body aches so I'm starting to think i was getting a bug rather than just being sleepy.

more hoar frost from February..it did snow a bit in various places. i could see some flakes but here we got some steady rain as the wind calmed and before the rainbow came.

super windy days like this i don't walk in the woods. the moose and other wildlife are spooked and I've had too many crazy moose running in random and rapidly changing directions on windy days. not to mention the added risk of death by falling trees or branches.

I'm sure i could have done more productive stuff through the day but i really was feeling tired, the wind had my attention. i kept doing rounds and checking on the library, Skelly and the back yard.

Skelly survived. the hats kept flying off and the flag was waving so i took that down. may put it back up tomorrow and get the scene back. for now it's tucked behind Skelly.

so totally chill day here. i have a portable DVD player which was charged so when the power was out i put in a netflix movie i had waiting to be watched. "Going in Style" light, easy watch. entertaining. good for stress relief. at some points the house was really shaking. was hoping my roof wouldn't fall off.

Ivy kept watch on the neighborhood and barked often as things went flying past the house.

as you check next door the list of missing items, loose dogs, requests for fence repair recommendations begins.

the rest of these are from a walk out Portage Lake to the glacier.

it was a really beautiful day. should be a mess of break up ice at this point. people go out too late and take unnecessary risks though. some were posting on the Alaska hiking page that they had fallen in and to be careful..be careful really? just stay off the damn lake at this point. people also do not heed the avalanche warnings out at Byron Glacier trail and several about got caught in a rock/snow slide out there recently. spring is no time to mess around on these trails and water ways.

last night i watched a movie as well. it was some movie made in Israel i think. it was okay. i was sleepy last night too though, the wind was keeping me up...as was the dogs barking at the wind.

tried to get some tennis ball time in but it was really blowing. poor pups. hopefully tomorrow we can get a better walk in...unless i have some raging disease by then. hopefully, whatever this is passes.

the walk across the lake is almost 3 miles each way. i have never gotten too close to the glacier...because i try not to be a fool.

the cracks make me anxious enough some days.

these cracks are pretty stable. i guess there were some folks out on the lake when the big quake of '64 hit...that must have been interesting. guess it survived that. they did anyway.

i always try to imagine the news headline when i am contemplating something that could be potentially stupid...that is usually enough to prevent me from doing the potentially stupid thing.

haven't really heard how Bush Sr is doing today. he buried his wife and took ill soon after. when i first heard about it i figured they were together for over 70 years..often those couples like that do pass within days to months of each other.

i read somewhere the courts have ruled against the iitoo on his decision to stop DACA. he makes a huge mess of everything.

he's clearly totally falling for the charming French President. hopefully, he can be convinced to follow his lead on a few items. he should have come closer to the day of the Iran deal needing to be signed...he is so flighty and hears from so many people and seems to react and alter his feelings on any matter at the drop of a hat or a phone call or a faux news broadcast. he's like a ping pong ball bouncing aimlessly but he has the nuclear codes. it's nuts.

more cracks.

I've usually been very good at keeping my distance from the unstable folks in this world. i tend to not get sucked in. i think my friend S that i hiked with is the same. we can be around those people without allowing ourselves to become a part of the drama. I'm anti drama. when i see it i back away, the more i see, the further and faster I'll back away. you have to know how much you can take with some people and set those limits and boundaries.

it's easy to be manipulated by some people, often you have no idea what is going on...but i think i tend to see it, even if i don't really get that I'm seeing it. i just naturally set those boundaries. i have always felt so bad seeing others getting sucked in...there isn't anything you can do either.

I've met a few borderlines. one friend, we all tried to warn her but she didn't heed the warnings..did she end up on a wild ride when that all went nuts. with borderlines you are great until you are terrible. they tend to suck people in with promises, prezzies, compliments. they can be very endearing...again, until they aren't. you are a hero until you try to escape the web you have been weaved into...then you are the devil.

we did not look like this today. it was a dark day. though the skies opened later and it was beautiful. i love the light after a storm. something about it. crazy beautiful.