Augustine Volcano

Here is what is going on today. Our volcano is awake again and spewing ash! I am praying that it will not affect my trip to Wichita next week!

Major Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

This is the weather this morning! Ouch! Do you see the temperature at -20 degrees? Pat is working outside all day today. He has a bunch of very warm layers, and they have no problem with going in to get warm when needed! I think I'll plan on staying in today! Oh, yeah, and this is at 9:30 AM! Just imagine what it was like at 4:30 AM! (That's when Pat gets up for work!) Just thought I'd keep you up on what is going on up here!!!

New Year's

Before the camera broke, this is what we did over New Year's!

Quiet Giant

For any of you who may be interested, we have not had a major eruption, yet. They say there is a new dome pushing up. I'm not sure exactly what the implications of this are, however, the status of the volcano is at "orange" and not "red." This means there is less chance of a major eruption at the present moment! Of course this can change instantly! I am fascinated! As the picture shows, the snow is now all gray due to the ash, and on the other picture, the dark spot in the middle of the dome is the possible new dome. Have a happy day!

We're Erupting!

This is the Augustine Volcano west of Homer, AK. Homer is about a 2 hour drive south of us. We are watching the winds to make sure we won't have to worry about ash fall. One could see the ash across the inlet on a clear day, but we can't see Augustine from here. If the winds should change, we will have to brace a little for the ash fall which is not a pleasant occurance, I've heard! It is truly fascinating to watch, but there is also the fear of the unknown! They don't have volcano's in Kansas!

Winter Color!

My husband is the best guy in the whole world! He picked out these perfect little daffodils to brighten my days! Thank goodness for the webcam! It takes pictures, too! Have a lovely day!

New Year!

Okay, we are not having a good start to our new year!! We celebrated the coming year looking at the inside of our eyelids, snoozing away! We then slept in, and got ourselves around to go out to Caribou Hills to ride our snowmachines! We were having a lovely time when about 2:30 or 3:00, Pat's machine began to make a strange noise. After much deliberation and trying to fix the problem, the chain case broke open from the chain (like a timing chain in a car) coming loose from the front axel breaking. Stupendous! Luckily, we were with a group of people and we were able to have the machine towed out to the truck later that evening.
Also, after I took a picture of the broken chain case, I lost my hold of the camera while putting my gloves back on and proceeded to drop the camera into the snow. Apparently, this is enough to break it. I will try to either have it fixed, or we will look at new ones shortly. I apologize to all of you who await the fabulous pictures that I post for the lack of new shots! I hope to begin again soon! Thank you all for your patience!