Icewind's Ramblings

Winter is coming in Anchorage. Another strange sight around town for tourists and first year residents of Anchorage Alaska was spotted this past weekend. The mountains around town are white with snow of the upcoming winter so the moose have started moving into lower elevations and easier walking terrain. It is an annual occurrence as the thousand plus moose population come back and occupies the city with the humans and other animals. One large Bull Moose was spotted on Saturday downtown in Town Square Park and surprised several visitors later outside the Captain Cook Hotel. He was having a great time eating on the trees downtown and easily walking the streets since we are lacking our normal snowfall this time of year. I drove downtown several times over the last few days and spotted him either walking or eating within a several block area. He was happy to be there and spent time lazily hanging out watching those that were watching him. This moose has become...

It’s funny when you think about all of the millions of people in the world and some of the funny and stupid things we all do . . . From politics . . . to real life . . . we see many things that may go unexplained. I haven’t had time to write much lately as these are busy times trying to get everything done before the hard winter sets in upon us here in Alaska . We had snow for several weeks but then had a small break with above normal temperatures and ‘break up melting’. Do you realize how much junk you can collect when you let your guard down? I have been going through things trying to weed out the items I have hauled all over the country and then not used lately. Get rid of it if there is real reason to hang on to such nonsense, especially if you have just packed it away somewhere only to find it again after looking for something else. Ice