Posts tagged #Cabin

Wilder

 

Flashback Friday

There are more women than men in Alaska, and the saying goes:

"The odds are good, but the goods are odd"

Wilder

    About five years ago I moved into a dry cabin for the very first time in my life. Across the driveway lived this guy from Montana, a bearded man with a love for ecology and kombucha. Our very first interaction was when he came over to my cabin and offered me some homemade kombucha, and maybe you could say that the rest is history. So, I guess both the odds and the goods were good for me!

 
 

Match Made in Heaven?

    Both me and W are interested in fire ecology, mountains, adventure and everything else in between. We enjoy the outdoors, hate crowded places and need our precious adventurous cocktails and homemade 4 course dinners from time to time. W is a foodie, and I am too, so we try to find awesome restaurants as soon as we travel somewhere. We strive to make as much as we can from scratch, and I think we do a good job!

 
 

Traveling kind?

    We like to travel to our destinations off season, because we can't handle crowded places. When we drove from Alaska to Wisconsin, and stopped in Banff, we drove into the huge parking lot by Lake Louise. We stopped the car and looked at each other and said, no way, let's leave. We made a quick sandwich with our food and were on the road again within 5 minutes. People might call us crazy but that was just too much for us, we went to another parking lot, and hiked a short distance and had the whole world to ourselves. That is how most of the National Parks work, both in Canada and the US. Fewer people actually venture off the main road. I get that, people are busy, and really don't have time to go somewhere off  the main road, but we do!

 
 

How do you feel about crowded and touristy places?

Signs of Spring, Green-Up in Alaska

Spring

Green-up

Yesterday green-up happened in Fairbanks. Green-up day is defined as the day that bud-burst happens and leaf-out slowly begin. This date varies from year to year of course, but this year it set the record. Last year for instance this did not happen until May 3rd so this clearly is a lot earlier compared to then. Of course, I have already been killing mosquitos...

Igår så  var det den officiella dagen för vår här i Fairbanks. Den dagen definieras av att knopparna brister och löven börjar komma ut. Datumet för detta är förstås väldigt olika från år till år, men detta år var rekord tidigt, ungefär en vecka innan det brukar hända. Förra året till exempel så hände inte detta förrän 3e Maj. Med den officiella våren kommer även myggorna...

 

Green-up is always so cool, you can literally see the change in color from the morning to the evening. In 2013 this didn't happen until May 26th for instance. 

Here is a video from a few years back I found on youtube to show you how fast this happens. 

Våren här är alltid spektakulär, eftersom den kommer över så kort tid, träden kan verkligen ändra färg från morgonen till kvällen. 2013 så hände inte detta förrän den 26e Maj. 

Nedan är en video från det året som jag hittade på youtube, den visar verkligen hur fort det går.

 

 

Lazy afternoons at the Cabin

I have been really really busy lately, and I can only blame myself. I feel bad when I have to leave Tycho by himself on the weekends. On Saturday though I did stay at home. I had to work on some data sheet so it worked out pretty well. I spent the morning in my chair on the front porch drinking coffee and hanging out with Tycho. 

På sistone har jag varit riktigt upptagen, och det är förstås bara mitt fel. Jag känner mig så taskig mot Tycho när jag lämnar honom på helgerna. I Lördags stannade jag hemma för en gång skull, och spenderade morgonen ute på altanen med kaffe tillsammans med Tycho.