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Holiday Misgivings

Posted on December 22, 2015 by perlgurl

Be careful about trying to help out your fellow human: I thought I was helping a guy out who said he really needed an item I had for sale. He contacted me asking if he could trade for anything and … Continue reading →

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Bug the sleepy cat

Posted on December 11, 2015 by perlgurl

This is Bug the cat. Tonight he’s acting a little stoned. You see, he hates having his feet touched so after two years of failing to trim his nails using every manner I’ve ever tried before with my other cats, … Continue reading →

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Bug, the backwards-but-over-head-walking cat.

Posted on December 4, 2015 by perlgurl

This is Bug the Cat. I’m telecommuting these days and there are times when he just wants my attention regardless of what I’m doing on the computer. Sometimes he comes in and just vocalizes in his tiny little voice or … Continue reading →

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Nov 30: finally aurora and “Battery Exhausted” at -13F

Posted on December 1, 2015 by perlgurl

Monday night around 8pm I headed to pick up a friend in North Pole, which was under a stinky cloudy of wood burning stoves’ smoke haze that made me cough and curse about air quality, and then we went to … Continue reading →

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Snowshoeing, Chena Lakes    

Posted on November 29, 2015 by perlgurl

My friend Caroline and I headed out to Chena Lakes for a short snowshoeing adventure on Saturday after Thanksgiving.  Considering we had plans to clean the snow and cover the top of my RV with a tarp prior to this … Continue reading →

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Fisheye and faint aurora

Posted on November 29, 2015 by perlgurl

Over the holiday weekend a friend of mine was house-sitting out by Moose Mountain, off Murphy Dome Road, and invited me to come out and enjoy the dark sky and a hot tub with her any night she was there. … Continue reading →

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Wacky dreams!

Posted on November 25, 2015 by perlgurl

Yesterday a friend got a great photo of a boreal owl which must have planted of “seed of need” for me to get out and take some pictures into my dreams since I just woke from a wacky dream where … Continue reading →

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Showshoes, drinks and hot water at Chena Hot Springs

Posted on November 22, 2015 by perlgurl

Yesterday I spent a wonderful day outside after 10 days of having a nasty cold and being mostly housebound. My friend Caroline and I went to Chena Hot Springs and snowshoed the Monument Trail, rumored to be “under three miles” … Continue reading →

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Sundogs and freezing perlgurl

Posted on November 18, 2015 by perlgurl

Gorgeous day of -15F and this sundog was visible for several hours from several different locations in my travels, but I made the mistake of not taking my camera today as I was out running errands all day so I … Continue reading →

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Bug the cat, water-lover.

Posted on November 16, 2015 by perlgurl

This is Bug the cat. He is quite obsessed with water faucets. He paws at them, trying to encourage water to come out so he can drink it. Once the water is turns on, he turns his face sideways and … Continue reading →

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