Lions, but No Witch or Wardrobe.

Oh man, had me a hectic day today. Unfortunately, not much interesting happened. Went to Costco, ran some random errands like getting distilled water for the batteries. The great news is that I have had THREE visits from South Africa. Well done Megan! South Africa is now my number one foreign country. And for that reason, I will pretend to be South African:

What? WHAT? I can't hear anything over all these vuvuzelas. I SAID I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING OVER ALL THESE VUVUZELAS! WHY IS EVERYONE STILL BLOWING THOSE THINGS? I THOUGHT THE WORLD CUP ENDED ALREADY. MY EARS, MY POOR EARS. HEY, LOOK, I SEE A DINGO. WAIT, THEY DON'T HAVE DINGOS HERE. MUST BE A GOLDEN LAB. I LOVE GOLDEN LABS. HANG ON A MINUTE, IT LOOKS LIKE A CAT. HOLY CRAP ITS A LION! AHHHHHH ITS EATING MY LEGS. IT'S THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS! WHY DON'T YOU STOP BLOWING THAT STUPID VUVUZELA AND HELP ME? AHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Hmmm, it appears I died. Bummer.

I did the drive back out to the cabin today, so I have reentered true hermitage. The temperature started below freezing in Anchorage, went up to around 40 in Palmer, about an hour north, and then dropped to 20 below zero near Glenallen before rising to 11 at the cabin. Weird, right? That's a big swing for a 300 mile drive.

 This is a picture of what I believe is Mount Sanford, and there are some others in there too that I can't remember. Anyway, this is close to Glenallen, which is about 200ish miles northeast of Anchorage. Notice they are pink! This is an interesting effect that occurs when the sun is low in the sky and shining through an unusual amount of atmosphere. The light turns pink because Alaska's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, but the remainder is equal parts oxygen and pink cotton candy!