I mentioned the other day that we’re riding the roller coaster of winter weather in Southeast Alaska. To pursue that analogy, on Saturday we threw our hands in the air and hit that sickeningly steep drop down into the lower loop.
Saturday’s trip to town for Aly’s SAT subject tests took place in a storm of heavy, wet snow, which blew sideways most of the day. While Aly took her tests, Michelle and I went to where our sailboat, Selkie, is stored, to shovel snow off the tarps and pull out some sleds stored there. By the time we’d finished, we were soaked. Luckily, we pulled the sleds out to loan to friends, so we had a place to dry out and wait for the tide to fall far enough to get home. Continue reading