Iditarod and other news Of course we all know what is dominating the news cycle lately. Not going to perpetuate that issue. I’ve been continuing with my run training. I still kind of have a hard time getting out and running at -30F but I’ll get there. Lynn and I had to cancel our trip… Continue reading Iditarod Comes to Galena
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Springtime in Galena
The weather has started warming up here. We had a fairly normal winter this year with -50℉ or so as the lowest temperature. Just cold enough to prevent us from using our propane for a while. Assuming we don’t have any sudden long cold spells for the rest of this year we still have firewood… Continue reading Springtime in Galena
The year without winter
I haven’t posted since Christmas since I was waiting for some significant winter weather but so far it hasn’t happened. Iron Dog came and went and although most years the weather has been close to -40F during the race I don’t think it got below 20F during the whole thing. We also haven’t had much… Continue reading The year without winter
Warm Up
Cold Spell Well, the cold spell lasted a little longer than we thought. The temperature got down to around -50 a couple of times. I’m sure our electric bill will be a little higher due to having to keep the truck plugged in all night for several nights. I changed the oil before it got… Continue reading Warm Up
2014 Iditarod
The 2014 Iditarod finally made it in to Galena. I missed the first few teams as they came in pretty early. The weather is nice, not too cold and very little wind. We were told the first teams probably wouldn’t make it in until late Friday but I think the first one came in early… Continue reading 2014 Iditarod
Finally got some firewood in!
With help from a couple of co-workers my chainsaw is now running after being completely submerged in water from the flood. I have a cord of dry wood in the yard and finally got to build a fire tonight. The timing couldn’t be better as the weather is returning to temperatures that are a bit… Continue reading Finally got some firewood in!