Month: April 2023

This tree was along a road that seemed to lead to a snow-covered Sunnahae Mountain (hint: it doesn’t).

[daily log: walking, 3km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree experienced puffy clouds in a bluing sky.

Chad was sick so I did a half-day at work today – not a normal Thursday occurrence. Then I went home, got Arthur, and drove back to town to do our normal Thursday shopping thing. This twice-to-town day reminded me that in fact the most tiring thing about my job is the commute – for whatever reason, I find the 8-mile, 30 minute drive fairly exhausting. Something about dodging some potholes and hitting others.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 4hr]

This tree was recorded under fresh snow and sun yesterday morning.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree saw the re-snowing of Craig, Alaska.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree had been suffering under the illusion that winter was over.

[daily log: walking, 1km;]

This tree was wet, down at the beach on lot 73.

I felt like my cold came back, after having gone into slight remission. So I didn’t get much done today. The sun came out for about 30 minutes and I went and planted some radishes in my greenhouse. But total rain for the day was nearly 2 inches. We’re getting a lot of rain.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]

This tree was flanking a small stream.

We’ve been getting a lot of rain. Not that that’s so strange – this is the Alaskan Rainforest. Over an inch just today (so far – there are still some hours left in the day).

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km]

This tree was hanging around on a cliff along the road at the six-mile hill.

[daily log: walking, 4km;]

This tree was uncertain as to which season to celebrate.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree is a guest-tree from my past. This tree is in front of my childhood home, looking toward the front porch. I wasn’t sure when I took this picture. I figured it wasn’t on my last visit there, last Fall. I thought it might have been in either 2018 or 2009 – one of my two previous visits there. But then I checked the picture’s metadata, and lo, it was taken in August of 2007, which was definitely a time I visited there (I suspect I took this photo at the same time as the one in this blog post). I wonder how I managed to run across it now in one of my rather random “let’s organize my computer a little bit” moments?

Work at the gift store was more tedious than usual today – probably because I’m still not feeling well.

[daily log: walking, 4km; retailing, 8hr]

This tree (small, foreground) was a tree I planted two years ago, I think. Unlike most of the trees I’ve planted on my lot, it seems to be doing fine through our long, vague winter – it probably helps that it’s not an exotic but a local species, just not on my lot: some kind of pine that is mostly found in the muskeg areas.

[daily log: walking, 1km;]

This tree was lightly frosted.

[daily log: walking, 1km;]

This tree stayed behind a barrier of rocks.

I’ve been feeling quite “under the weather” the last few days: sore throat, congestion, more sneezing than usual, feverish. I was sufficiently worried that I did a home Covid test – it says I don’t have it. I didn’t think so, but it’s prudent to check, I guess. Probably just some kind of flu or cold. But I’ve been feeling lousy and not terribly productive, though I continue to make progress on trying to lessen the footprint of my various servers (blogs and map servers).

[daily log: walking, 1.5km;]