It's a New Year!

Monday January 6, 2014

We made it through the holidays in Alaska and are now back in Georgia.  Christmas was spent in Sterling AK at Greg's family homestead.  Lots of good food, big bon-fire, temps in the teens, and fantastic fire works show.  The water pump was broken so we didn't have any running water but we made do with water jugs and paper plates.  

Our family exchanged gifts on the 26th.  It was good to have all the boys there plus our new daughter-in-law Toni.

We spent four days before New Year's at a public use cabin on Nancy Lake north of Wasilla AK.  The weather was great.  Temperatures were in the teens and 20's and lots of snow for skiing and snow machining.  This year we had 8 people and 2 dogs in our cabin for New Year's eve.  A total of 23 people (and 4 dogs) met for dinner and fire works at another cabin.  Greg fixed his famous dutch oven Mexican lasagna and margaritas.

The weather in Anchorage was getting warm and nasty with sleet/rain instead of snow when we flew out on Sunday morning the 5th.  Our plan was to spend the night at my sister's (Beth) in Atlanta then drive 4 hours to mom's (in Waycross) on Monday.  The weather in Atlanta was predicted to be in the single digits over night on Sunday with some snow flurries.  We decided to go on down to Waycross Sunday night after landing in Atlanta at 4pm.  Beth picked us up at the airport, then drove us down.  We got to mom's around 9:30pm.

Monday 1/6/14.... If there was snow on the ground I'd think I was in Alaska....... the temperature in Waycross is not that cold but the wind goes right thru you!  It was in the 50's this morning with a little sunshine but with the wind chill it felt like 30.  Tonight is supposed to get in the teens (what????).  We have covered mom's outside plants and insulated her faucets.  Hopefully we will not freeze.   I made sure I brought lots of cold weather clothes with me on this trip.  I'm covered....bring it on!