Break Out the Shorts

Ok, don't freak out...two posts in two days! What is the world coming to?!?! :-)

It's been a hockey playoff weekend for the Fairbanks Ice Dogs. They are in first place and are playing the last place team in round one. Friday night the game didn't start until the 3rd period. They pulled it out 4-1. Last night was a much different story. They played pretty much the whole game and won 7-1. Kenai tried hard but they didn't have a chance. Game three is Friday down in Soldotna. It's the best of 5 games so that should be it.

Anyway, at the game last night, they had two guys from Ice Road Truckers on the History Channel do the ceremonial puck drop. After the first period I ran into them (not such a tough thing in a small place) and had my picture taken with them. Really nice guys. I talked to Alex (the tall one who has like 100 kids) and he's a really mellow nice guy. They are in Fairbanks to be driving the Dalton Highway, up to Prudhoe Bay, the same road I drove all last summer. We are still in winter here, especially up north so they will have plenty of winter driving to do. My hat is off to the guys who drive that road in the winter. It was fine in the summer but that's enough to me. Anyway, it was cool to run into these guys. I was shamelessly addicted to Ice Road Truckers.

I'm hauling another load of water today and I should have my holding tank pretty much topped off. The holding tank is 1500 gallons. I've been tracking it seems like I'm going through about 150 gallons a week. So if I haul every two weeks I should be fine. I had to buy a submersible pump to pump the water from the tank. It is supposed to pump 2200 gallons an hour but I have to pump it 80 feet up a slight incline so it's not that efficient for me. It takes just over an hour to empty the 350 gallons. Right now it's ok. When it's super cold, no idea. The good thing is I can hold out on a sub 40 below stretch of weather and haul after it warms a bit. Then I would just haul several loads to catch up. My folks are coming to visit this summer and I'll have my Pop see if he can help me figure out a better set up. But for now this works.

As of today we are over 14 hours of daylight. Right now it's beautiful out, clear as a bell, perfect day. We actually have a few days with highs expected to be in the 40s this week! Break out the shorts!! Woo Hoo!