Iditarod and ANWR

Yesterday two big events happened; there was a winner in the Iditarod sled dog race, and the US Senate voted to allow oil drilling in ANWR. You will want to see a lot of great photos of the
Alaska Iditarod sled dog race.

It is about time that they finally agreed to drill for more oil. You will see many deceptive photos that are not truly ANWR in the popular press. The mountains are far away from where the actual drilling will take place and any photos that show mountains in the background are using very high powered telephoto lenses to deceive the public. In fact the best way to describe what ANWR really is like for over half of the year, I would have to take you into a dark walk-in freezer and hold up a blank sheet of typing paper, which would be the true picture of ANWR.

JUICE - The Creative Fuel That Drives World-Class Inventors. This is an interesting book about inventors and inventions. I think it was on public TV also. Here is a link to the website.
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Here is the temperature graph since January 1st. These are "springs" 5,6, and 7. Each red bar is one day with the high and the low. It is for Anchorage which is about 60 miles north of us by air and 170 miles by road. You can see below that last summer was warmer than average. COME ON GLOBAL WARMING!!!!
Link to Anchorage weather>  

I have put numbers on all the different springs we have had this "winter". 

Coach Felix is talking to the Nikiski Bantam hockey team. We won the Presidents Day Tournament! There were 8 teams in our group. 

Have you heard of Black Sands Beach in Hawaii? We have a similar tourist attraction in Alaska called the Black Iceberg Beach. Anchorage is behind that mountain in the sun. Nobody was lying on their towels on the beach on friday afternoon 

This is what a year old moose will do to your truck. This happened last thursday morning when going to an ER (emergency response) class for work. I tried to go right to get around her, but she went the same direction :( 

Look at all the snow coming down! 

Here are a couple of photos taken at night during the snowstorm a few days ago. One is taken with flash and the other is taken without flash. 

Here is a photo from the last weekend in January when the Nikiski bantam team came in 2nd place in a tournament in Soldotna. Hockey is fun. 

end time signs?

international signs

• just watch the news
• nation vs nation
• wars and rumors of wars

natural signs

• famines
• pestilence
• earthquakes

moral signs

• violence
• as in the days of Noah and Lot (perversion rampant)
• excesses in all areas of sin (lawlessness)

spiritual signs

• false christs (sun moon)
• false prophets
• man of sin revealed (spirit of antichrist)
• occult and satanism (bookstores)
• iniquity will abound
• false doctrines
• harvest
• falling away (love of many will wax cold)

These signs were discussed in the last couple of Wednesday Bible studies. It was a good overview and list. We have had these signs for centuries, but do they seem to be increasing in frequency and intensity?

Here is a list of verses from the Bible: Acts 1.11 John 14.1-3 Gal 4.4 Acts 2.1 Matt 24.1-3 Matt 24.36 Ps 102.16 Is 66.8 Jer 32.36-41 Dan 12.4 Matt 24.4-44 Luke 21.25-36 Acts 2.16-21 1Thess 5.1-6 2Thess 2.1-4 1Tim 4.1-3 2Tim 3.1-5 2Pet 3.1-14 Conclusion: 2Pet 3.10-14 1Thess 4.15-18 (be ready)

spring number 5

Last weekend Lois Ann and i went to Anchorage. Guess what? It was pouring down rain in the mountains. We have about 2 feet of snow in Nikiski on the ground. Near Cooper Landing and in the mountains there was almost no snow on the ground and snow started about half-way up the mountains. Turnagain Pass had about the same amount of snow as us. This has been a very strange and warm winter. It is not like it was in 1888, shown in the photo below. You can click on the photo for a bigger view.

This is a picture of New York during the great blizzard of 1888. My son is an apprentice electrician. I imagine they had a lot of work for electricians in New York.  

kenai peninsula map 

seems like spring again

We just finished about a week of sometimes below 0 weather. Today it is warm once again with temperatures around 30 degrees F ABOVE. We live in God's country here in Nikiski because our temps were 20-30 degrees warmer than Kenai and Soldotna which were near the 10 BELOW mark much of this last week. Maybe Nikiski gets some warm currents from Cook Inlet.

pauls letters

A while back i read that the apostle Paul's letters were placed in the New testament according to the size of each letter because that is the way the Romans arranged authors works in a collection back in those days. The next few months i am reading them according to the order in which they were written:
Galations---------49AD------Acts 13:12
1Thessalonians---51AD------Acts 18:1
2Thessalonians---52AD------Acts 18:1
1Corinthians-----57AD------Acts 19:22,23
2Corinthians-----57AD------Acts 20:1
Romans-----------58AD------Acts 20:2
(After Acts)
Colossians-------61-62AD
Ephesians--------61-62AD
Philemon---------61-62AD
Philippiand------63AD
1Timothy---------63AD
Titus--------------63AD
2Timothy---------67AD

Here is a picture of the Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge that i spotted on yahoo today. I grew up in Duluth and this is the main landmark of the city. Duluth is built on a hill and most everyone can see this from their house or by driving to skyline parkway.  

This is a picture from Christmas for Holly. We miss you!! 

10 below

Winter really arrived today. This is the first below zero weather this winter. It has been so warm this winter that we did not expect we would get this kind of weather this year - ha ha.

brain website

This is an interesting website about the brain. You can even take a test to find out what is unusual about your own brain. Lots of interesting pictures of the brain.
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