Tue 10 Nov 2009
Winter’s here.
Posted by Denise under Alaska, Family
[4] Comments
Hey everyone! Boy, I think it has been way too long for an update. Steve and I have been a little under the weather battling colds so most of the energy we could muster up was spent on working and then passing out when we got home. Anthony escaped from it all though, Praise the Lord!
We’ve seen what a blessing it is for Steve to be working at the hospital the last couple of weeks. He was working late on the Tuesday night I had to go to urgent care and get breathing treatments. (I think Anthony got the breathing treatments too because the little exam room was full of foggy medicine
Well, when I got out I swung by the hospital with my prescription list and Steve ran down and picked them up from me, turned them in at the pharmacy and then picked them up before he came home for work. Also, as a Banner Health Employee he gets a discount with prescriptions filled at the hospital and they put it on his account which means it comes out of his check so no up-front charges-which was a great thing because after a little problem with the truck a couple weeks ago, the list of meds I got were kinda pricy.
Yes, the truck is ok now but had to undergo an ignition change as my husband doesn’t know his own strength. Apparently the plug attached to the engine on the truck did not warm up one morning (I don’t know what happened there) and I couldn’t get the initiation to turn over one morning. So. . . Steve went out to start it for me.
Incidentally, it was the same day of my breathing treatments. Thankfully, he had a late shift that day and had the truck fixed before work. Well, he didn’t miss much work.
Lots of adjustments here like changing shoes when we get to work (I keep mine under my desk) and hat, scarf, jacket and mittens/gloves before walking out to warm the car up. BTW-an auto start is all I want for Christmas this year and I’ve already put in a request from Santa. He lives up here you know?
It’s cold and it’s getting darker. Here is a picture of Anthony playing in the snow after school. (It’s only 4:20PM but getting dark)
We’re glad to be here though. Hope you enjoy the update. We love and miss you all,
Denise

Just to let ya know there is an app for your auto start for your car.
now that ya r rockin an iphone.
Denise, it starts to get dark here around 4:30 to 5-ish and it’s completely dark by about 6:15. I’m sure it gets that way by about, what, 5? When I lived up near Seattle, it was dark by 4:30-ish in mid-December. Then again, we did get some sun every day. In Summer, it’d be light out until about 9:30-10 pm…
Hi Jeremy. Sunrise right now is 9:15 AM and sunset is 3:48PM. I think we are losing 6 or so min. of daylight each day right now. I think we keep losing it until there is like 4 hours of daylight and then we start gaining again. It seems like it is changing fast. The snow is Beautiful! We are likely to have snow now for the next week it looks like and the temperatures are getting much lower this weekend. Time to go shopping for a few more winter clothes befor the cold really sets in.
It’s been too long since an update again!