I'm back!

didja miss me? Hope you all went over to the Ladybug's home and wished her a happy birthday today. My baby girl is 30!! Her sis (Lessa) surprised her by hacking into her blog and putting up a special picture and greeting. ;-)

So, I'm home from the Anchorage trip. Had to do the wally-world diaper run for the bay-boy and pick up some other things for the Ladybug household. Oh, and have the car serviced and meet up with my friend for some food and chatter.

Good thing the car went in - nothing major, just regular service - but! They discovered that one of my tail lights was out and the housing was all corroded. That was a warranty fix. In addition several (all?) of the brake lights in the bar across the rear window were out. THAT one cost me. Sigh! Still glad to get it taken care of. Wonder when they went out? (no, I can't see the brake lights if I am pushing the brake - gonna have to do that trick of backing up to a plate glass window and looking for the reflections, huh?)

Got a few pics for you all to enjoy -

a purple house right here in town! Phew! No, I don't live there. Heh

Here are some pics of the ice blocks (and some reflective action) along Turnagain Arm. These chunks of ice are BIGGER than my car - I know it doesn't really look that way from the pics, but trust me, 'kay?

We have enormous tidal action in Turnagain - a bit further down the road towards Girdwood there were thousands of blocks of ice up on the silty sand next to the road - but no pull out where I could safely take a pic. Sorry.

Drove up and into the mountains sure I would be facing snow - there were low clouds and it looked like mist or fog or something. But, the roads were simply wet and the clouds low. Thank goodness for that.

At the Girdwood gas station I parked next to a car that had certain seen better days:

I couldn't get a good shot of the back seat, but I tried. They had a small compressor (maybe to put air in the fake - pretend - tire there on the right rear rim?) and a coke crate FULL of bottles of oil! But it had Alaska tags on it - just an old beater, I guess.

The best part of any trip is coming home. After I stopped by to drop off the diapers and such to the Ladybug - and to give her a birthday kiss - I headed home.

This is the view that met me at the turn onto my street

Sigh!

Night, friends.

Posted by Purplemoose at February 26, 2005 09:39 PM