burning up the beach

3Josh • 16th May 2005 • blog entries, nome., station life

I just got back from a spur of the minute fourwheeler ride with Neil. Its pretty beautiful outside and it was a nice break from the tech stuff that I was working on tonight at home. We took the machines up to the west beach, it was the first time I had been up there since the snow started melting a few weeks ago. I was amazed at how many miners were out on the beach. You’ve got all these guys going out and living on the beach in houses made out of palates. I’ve got to get some pictures of this stuff sometime in the next few days, its pretty crazy. I also learned that miners who live in palate houses don’t like it when you do donuts outside their “house”.

Matt & Nicole were here over the weekend and we had a blast playing games, walking around town and burning up the beach. There is so much driftwood down on all the beaches that you can just go out and start a huge fire! I plan to do this often during the summer. Thanks again for coming up guys, we had a great time!

Lydia said that the sunrise was gorgeous this morning, although I don’t know what she was doing up at 5:30am…but that reminds me, its time for:

Josh’s Daylight-o-meter OR How much light will it take to drive the Rogers insane??

Today, May 16, 2005: Sunrise at 5:33am and a Sunset of 12:23am for 18 hours and 50 minutes of daylight.

The guitar recital went pretty well last week, I was the oldest person there, but I still had fun and was able to show off my mad skillz. The cold is also gone, although I did suffer from “tissue face” for about a week.

I think I’ll apply for survivor.

Also, I’m trying to figure out if I’ll abandon the blog when we move from Alaska someday… I don’t really have anything else to write about, but if you can think of any interesting topics I’d love to hear them. I’m not really into the “everyday” blogs, and the only reason this feels like one is because I’m chronicling our adventures here in the great white north-land. I’d be all over keeping this up if it was able to find another purpose. Shoot me off an email.