Why do you blog?
I started this journey as a way to keep in touch with our family & friends as we made our new life in Alaska. I felt that writing it down once instead of conveying the same message multiple times made much more sense! Now it’s been over a decade. My posts are infrequent and haphazard! But I persist.
They say time heals all wounds, but I rather think that time just passes by. The gaping hole left in our hearts is still there, but it’s hidden behind the life that we’ve lived~the experiences, the joys, and the sorrows~ that have kept us occupied since that day. It’s a little less prominent in the landscape but still there, nonetheless.
Happy birthday Dad. Miss you still.
A candle flickers
out of sight,
but in your heart
I still burn bright.
Think not of sadness,
that I’m not near,
think of gladness
and joyous cheer.
An expert from “Light a Candle” by J., Family Friends Poems, July 28, 2008
Today is the day for in-person voting for the open primary. Since making ranked choice voting the law a couple years ago, we have these open primaries where you vote for one name out of the list and the top 4 advance to the general (the general election is ranked choice). I asked a lady if she had voted yet and she didn’t know if she could, as she had been previously been convicted of a felony and served her time. Sad to say I didn’t know our State laws concerning that issue so I had to look it up! Alaska is one of the states that automatically reinstates someone’s right to vote after serving prison, (parole and/or probation completed), if unconditionally released. One must simply register to vote again. So we both got educated today!
Do you know your State’s laws about voting and felony convictions? How do you feel about it?
And…
Did you vote today?
Another fair has come and gone! Winter is coming!! We all did really well with our exhibits this year.
The Fair board opted not to give out fair bucks this year, much to the little people’s dismay. So I made a deal with them. For every red ribbon they get a dollar. For every blue ribbon they get $5. And for every purple division ribbon they get their choice of an ice cream cone or Italian soda. That seemed to take the sting of no fair bucks away.
They had to wait three days to find out the results. But boy oh boy, I think I got snookered.
First thing we see when we walk in the door.
He was certainly proud of himself as well as tickled about his ice cream cone prize!
They both did well, Lil Bit had an amazing number of ribbons. She chose a specialty drink at the coffee shop.
[Posting a year late, apparently I saved all my last posts as drafts instead of publishing?]
Alaska on my mind... 