Happy Thanksgiving

A little culinary history here for ya!

At the very first Thanksgiving neither Turkey nor Chicken was available. However there was an excess of eggs. In search of protein for their feast the parties involved turned to Deviled Eggs. This also answers the age old question, or at least in North America. Which came first the chicken or the egg, it was the egg. Both Chicken and Turkey were introduced later.

So to honor this little known nugget of history, Ive decided to connect Alaska to Russia via Deviled Egg Bridge. By my count it will take 72 Deviled Eggs. Below is an artist rendition of what will surely be a wonder of the world.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Winter Blitzkrieg

8 days ago we received our first snow, temperatures hovered around 20, nothing too bad. This weekend I was informed by a friend in the "lower" that a cold front was headed my way. I figured it was a joke and that he was referring to winter. I took the time to scope out the weather and he was right. As of 9 pm it was -1 F outside. The forecast calls for nights reaching -15 this week, aggressive and probably not but still. Winter moves fast up here, fast like tank, the occupation has started.

No big news out of Dutch for my DC friends, although it looks like the CM has wrapped up fishing early and the boys will be home in time for Thanksgiving.

President Obama stopped by to say "hi" last week to the troops on base.

A new gas powered gun will send supplies into space from Adak

The Northern Lights have their own rating system and it seems Thursday night the viewing opportunity will be "Moderate", this will also be the case on Saturday. I'd like to get some video footage for all of you but I'm not sure if I have the proper equipment.

The Sports Leader has 24 hours of basketball starting an hour or so ago, all your Spartan hoops are belong to my DVR!

Akin to watching paint dry or grass grow...

Except when the miniature Polar Bear chases the diminutive albino Moose across the yard.

day 1 of many

Big thaw on the way, sometime in April.

The first of the snow has arrived, 1 to 3 inches tonight. More snow to follow Monday through Wednesday. I've been eager to see the snow, not sure why exactly. I was tempted to attempt a fort or snowman but something tells me I'll have plenty opportunity to do so in the near future. I guess I forgot about how the nighttime sky glows with snow on the ground, its a kinda pinkish orange thing going on. Its only been snowing for a couple hours, small flakes but it is building up pretty quickly, I'm sure that is a sign of how quickly things can get out of hand up here. I think it is early yet but I'm guessing the Northern Lights will be out in the near future.

Not sure how I missed this one, but the King Crab season started Oct 15th...
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