Amazing... we've been in Anchorage and Kenai for the last week, enjoying our spring break. When we left, it was 20 below plus the wind-chill, with plenty of fluffy white snow all around. Now we're back, and it feels like spring is (almost) in the air. The sun is setting later and much further in the west. There are new birds flying around, not just the winter flock of ravens... and there's lots of green showing through on the tundra out back. Still plenty of snow-machines out back, but fewer dog teams. Just a matter of time now before break-up and mud season... yee-haw. I was able to catch the start of the Iditarod in Anchorage... what a spectacle! 96 teams starting out on a cold and windy Saturday morning, on the snow trucked in overnight for the opening ceremony. I was able to chat with a couple of the mushers and caught up with Bethel's own Jessica Klejka, winner of the Jr. Iditarod. She and her father got to start things off first out of the gate. For more info, check out these web-sites:
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