The weather outside is frightful! Up here in Alaska, our winter started off with a bang; we got almost 40 inches of snow in November. It was a fun and wintery Thanksgiving, then the rain started. During the weeks before Christmas, we were listening to Christmas music trying to imagine a white Christmas while everything around us was drippy and cold. I can't remember how many times I heard complaining about the rain and wishing for it to get just a little colder...
Then it started to snow.
Starting on Christmas, we woke up to more and more snow. Every morning Jonah shoveled at least 4 inches off our car. Wonderful! A white Christmas!
Then the snow didn't stop.
By the end of the week, we had a record making 82 inches of snow accumulation and it didn't stop as we started 2012. Nearing the end of the first week of January, Cordova has not only declared one, but two snow days. I have to say I found a great way to celebrate and/or recover from the frightful weather, opening the bottle of Cohoho Imperial IPA by Midnight Sun Brewing that my coworker Kate gifted to me for Christmas. This beer takes Sockeye Red IPA and amps it up full of holiday spirit, or maybe just more maltiness and hops. Cohoho is packed full of flavors, rounded out to make a snowy day a little more cheery, or maybe that's the higher alcohol content. Anywho, extend the holiday season by grabbing one of these if there's any left!
Check out our little town covered in snow. Amazing enough, the sun also made it over the mountains before it started to set again. We haven't seen that happen in some weeks.
Check out our little town covered in snow. Amazing enough, the sun also made it over the mountains before it started to set again. We haven't seen that happen in some weeks.
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| Photo by Rochelle Van den Broek |
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| Photo by Rochelle Van den Broek |
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| Photo by Rochelle Van den Broek |
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