Icewind’s Ramblings takes a look at the oddities in life through humor, stories, and observations on the human condition. It can cover almost anything and is seen through the eyes of a Southerner who lived in Alaska for twenty years experiencing life with a “Northern Exposure”. Laughter and a smile is the best medicine for the long dark winter nights in this wonderful world.
Southern by Birth, Alaskan by the Grace of God.
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Life Observation # 100
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The five most important words a parent can say:
"I'm so proud of you."
I was sitting in the hospital room this afternoon with my daughter (who’s not had a fun weekend) and we were talking and looking outside the two large windows that look west from the hospital towards midtown and downtown.
We both were reminded how small Anchorage still is as her window is above the tree level outside giving us a nice vantage point.We can see on the horizon ‘Sleeping Lady’ mountain range in the setting sunlight.The clear skies all day are giving way to clouds rolling in from the southwest.We count the buildings rising above the treetops in our line of sight and can only count 12 high-rise buildings in the distance.There is the Sheraton Hotel sitting slightly east of several other building making up the downtown area which consists of the Captain Cook Hotel, Westmark Hotel, Conoco Phillips building, our new Dena’ina Convention Center, ARCO building, and City Hall.
Several miles away in Midtown are several more buildings including BP’s, ASRC, several banks, and a new office tower at Northern Lights and C Street.There is not much here compared to other places I have lived as I remember Atlanta’s skyline that is still etched into my memory with the two major areas of development being downtown and Buckhead.
We took a walk down her hallway and proceeded on the elevator to a sitting nook close to the emergency room where I used to drink coffee everyday when I was building UAA’s Library across the street from the hospital. It is a nice quiet area with a fireplace several couches and a television.We sat and talked about these last two years and the many changes that everyone has gone through and what possible futures may come depending on what her final diagnosis may be.
We talked about her sister in Florida who is marrying soon and is awaiting her final orders to ship out to Iraq.Again more changes for our family and of simpler times when she and I drove together during the middle of winter from Utah to Alaska with our two dogs, Levi and Casey.It was a wonderful trip for us even at minus 35 below zero for over 2/3’s of the trip along the Alaskan Highway through Canada.
Simpler time’s maybe . . . before this unknown illness started taking its toll on her body.
Where is “House” when you need television to become our reality?
Morrison Springs Ponce de Leon, Florida County road 181 Morrison Springs was one of our favorite dive spots on many of our Florida trips but it also had the most danger to it. One of Northwest Florida’s best-kept secrets was known to more Georgia and Alabama folks than Floridians. And they weren’t talking. It had to do with the jewel of a Panhandle spring, a turquoise pool surrounded by stately cypress trees whose aerial roots stand taller than a man. Below the surface, clear, 68-degree water wells up from a spring cave source over 90 feet deep. Morrison Springs is just far enough off the beaten path in this sunny pine and cypress country to be special for any diver lucky enough to find and dive the site. The shallow pool reflects the overhead blue sky and if the water is clear and the bottom clean of silt, it resembles a giant sapphire. Unlike some springs with a deep, black hole source, this one takes visitors gradually into its shallows from a golden-sand beach. Div
Let me first say that personally, I have no problem with it at all. This has been kind of a weird week here in the north land with the first of many winter snowfalls’s to come and the landscape once again beautifully covered in the white stuff. It looks like the kids will have to put their Halloween costume on over a snowsuit again this year as the cold snowy stuff is here again. That is not what I wanted to write about tonight but was necessary to set up what I did want to write about. “Frosty nipples” are quite common here during most of the year and when things cool down on the cusp of winter probably more so. Work attire with tight shirts or low cut blouses that ‘make a statement’ during colder weather could be taken several ways by co-workers or visitors to your place of business. While you may not always be taken seriously by others in the office and some may have trouble looking you in the face, I say it's a freedom of rights issue. If you want to show o
Some of the best things about life I learned from Lonesome Dove. Great movie, excellent characters, and tells a story about how to live life. Augustus McCrae “It ain’t dying I’m talking about, it’s living. I doubt it matters where you die, but it matters where you live.” I'm just tryin' to keep everything in balance, Woodrow. You do more work than you got to, so it's my obligation to do less. “Yesterday’s gone and we can’t get it back.” “I'm sure partial to the evening,' Augustus said. 'The evening and the morning. If we just didn't have to have the rest of the dern day I'd be a lot happier.” Hat Creek Cattle Company Well we don't rent pigs and I figure it's better to say it right out front because a man that does like to rent pigs is . . . he's hard to stop. Biscuits “I never knew you to get excited about anything except biscuits maybe . . . and whores!” Captain Woodrow Call to Augustus McCrae in Lonesome Dove. Whores L
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