I have two resolutions for 2014: be more daring in my cooking and post here more often (it has been more than a year of daily procrastination on this front). To accomplish the earlier, I started with buying three cookbooks: The Chinese Gourmet, Basics of Asian Cooking, and 41 Curry Recipes. For the latter, I plan to post a picture a day here, in the hopes of both sharing what life in the frigid North is like and to get back into the blogging habit. Maybe as time and pictures go on, I'll even write more.
The update since September 2012:
After China, Luka and I went to the wedding of Matt and Molly (now) Stenovec. What a wonderful way to return--friends and merriment abounded. I made bread in Anchorage for the holidays, then ski bummed in Crested Butte, CO for another winter, working at a ski rental shop and living with Emma Lohr, Danny Spencer, and Nick Matisse. It was a winter of backcountry adventures, powder snowmobile trips with Darrell (Nick's second machine), and puzzles in the most homey place I've lived outside of Anchorage, 713 Maroon. It was a warm and surreal winter. In April the whole gang came to Alaska and had a month-long ski trip that was cut short for me to go to my new job, Wildlife Biology Technician in Delta Junction. I spent 7 months living in Delta Junction (population 974 people) in Interior Alaska. It was an incredible summer spent learning a wide array of biology skills, an equally wide range of natural history in a new part of the state for me, and one packed with fun adventures. My co-worker and house-mate Bob went fishing along the Copper River at midnight, drove up to the Arctic Ocean with my sister and (now) girlfriend Kate, went duck hunting in the fall, and with each other's support survived the atrocious living situation that was the farm we lived on. Now, the Delta job over, I live in Fairbanks for the winter. I am care-taking a helicopter operation and living in their pilot cabin, working for a Biology professor at the University of Alaska on a project studying over-wintering ducks on the Chena River, and spending my time with Kate and my sister Lindsay and her boyfriend, Reed. I have discovered that all the bad things Anchorage people say about Fairbanks is mostly untrue, that -40 degrees Fahrenheit isn't so inhospitable, and that the Aurora makes the long nights worth it. So, check in often if you are curious about the oddities of life in the frigid North, and you will find a few beautiful moments sprinkled in as well.
Today's the 9th, so here's 9 images to catch up for the year:
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| Jan 1: First time the family was together for the holidays in 4 years! |
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| Jan 2: Holiday cookie bonanza with 妹妹 |
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| Jan 3: A hanger of helicopters under my care. Can't fly them yet....... |
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| Jan 4: Brrrrrrrrrr..... |
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| Jan 5: Survival gear for the cold temps, bright color optional. |
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| Jan 6: Cold weather makes for surreal moments, a reward for those willing to go outside in search of them. |
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| Jan 7: The overwintering duck hoard at the Chena River |
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| Jan 8: During the process of measuring ducks after we catch them, they each get a turn in a pitcher to weigh them. I find it endlessly humorous. |
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| Jan 9: Releasing a duck after measuring along the steaming Chena River. |
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