I’ve seen beautiful sunrises and I hear there are nice sunsets, but I’m not awake for those. It’s odd that I’m up to see the sunrise every morning, but I miss the sunset because I’m already asleep. The sun rises at 7:00am and sets at 10:30pm right now, so it’s not that bad. Ben Franklin said “Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”. Well, I’m still poor and dumb, so I’m not taking everything Mr. Franklin says to heart. Remember, he was the one who flew a kite during a thunderstorm. I believe that to be the equivalent of sticking a hairpin in a light socket. Ben also sported one of the first mullets, which Tom Jefferson referred to as “ridiculous”.
I am not experiencing Spring the way I have been accustomed to. I’m used to seeing some green beginning to show. At least bare ground. Here, it has finally moved up to the single digits at night, so I guess that is progress. Yesterday we hit 32 with no clouds in the sky. Monica and I took a short snowmobile ride and crossed the mighty Yukon River. Although we couldn’t tell it was a river. It was just a couple feet of snow over ice. If we could see the river, I think that would have been a bad thing, since I’ve heard that falling through the ice can be a bit dangerous.
Monica has been here for over two weeks now and still plans on coming back up here with me next August. She has spent some time in the classroom reading to students. She has made this place more like a home than a place where I sleep and watch TV. When I was here alone, I ate rice 4-5 times a week. Since Monica arrived, we have not eaten rice once. We’ve had homemade pizza, pasta with sausage, moose meat chili, a roast, paninis, and potato soup. And that was just the first day. This morning, Monica made her biscuits and sausage gravy, which she learned from her mother. To give it a local flair, maybe she could use seal oil instead of bacon grease, and reindeer sausage instead of pork and pour it over pilot bread. Or maybe she could just keep on doing it how she usually does it.
I have one month until I leave for the summer. We are going to stay in Wenatchee until mid July and then move our belongings to Oklahoma. We’ll fly out of Tulsa in mid-August to start school. We needed a place to put our things and a place to stay in the summer, so this will work out just fine. We could stay up here for the summer, but I don’t know what we’d do. Getting a boat would be the only way to travel after the ice breaks up on the river in late May. Having the summer off will give us time to visit family and friends. Plus, being able to order a beer at a restaurant will be nice. So nice I may have more than one.
Monica will leave Friday and I’ll get back to eating rice for most of my meals. Having to hand wash all of my dishes, my decisions on what to make for a meal now are determined by the least amount of dishes I’ll have to wash. If I can make my meal in one dish and eat of the same dish, I’ve just saved myself extra time by having less to wash later. Plus, having a handle on your dinner plate is a good idea. Maybe this is what Ben was referring to as being wise. TJ would agree, shouting, “Hells yeah!” That was how they voted back in the day. When our government would vote on a measure, they would vote “Hells yeah” or “Nope”. "The 'hells yeah' have it. Now, let's go shoot us a turkey. Unless Mullet Head objects." I think President James Buchannan changed how the votes were tallied. Jerk.
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