The Best Part of Waking Up

or rather, the best part of staying home with guests is the liberating feeling of making that second pot of coffee.

Good conversation will flow, eventually, but folks need to shake the cobwebs of sleep/travel/jet lag/time zone changes.

This. This is the good stuff

Alaskans and ex-pats will know what I'm talking about. Freshly ground, bold, rich and aromatic ... oh my, yes.

Making Miss D & Jenny S. Nostalgic

Just a few local sights to trigger warm thoughts in those who've left Alaska behind ...

The Moose's Tooth - local pizza & pub par excellence

Ditto

the coffee Alaskans drink - WAY better than Starbucks!

Small boat harbor at Seward, on a winter's morning

I Know It's Not Much

by the standards of the winter weather which has wreaked so much havoc in the Lower 48, but we're settling in tonight for a nice weekend of Alaskan snow.

Accu-Hunch guesses we'll get 7" to 10" of fluffy white stuff over the next 36 hours. With temps in the teens and 20s, we can look forward to the type of snow that's dry & blows off of the cars while driving, rather than the ice & slush we had 10 days ago ... which then moved onto the rest of the country a bit later.

All our Christmas shopping was done by last weekend, so there's not a lot to do now but sit back & watch it come down.

Oh - and brew lots of good coffee.

Trust me, folks: this is the good stuff.