Stump Celebrates, Influenza Strikes, and I Turn Australian

I got an Australian yesterday!!! I will now pretend to be Australian: Throw another dingo on the barbie! Maybe we should just throw the barbie at the dingo. Its eating all our shrimp. Then maybe we should do something about all the horrible poisonous things with fangs that are gnawing on everything I love and hold dear. And why does every animal on this continent without horrible poisonous fangs carry its offspring around in a fanny pack? Vegemite? I'm not touching that shit. On second thought, I quit being Australian. I'll stick with good old fashioned wolves. 

This does mean that I have now hit 4 continents! Japan, Australia, Germany, US, and Canada! Whoo! I am declaring an official campaign to have Temporary Hermit be viewed on every continent. Megan, I'm looking at you for Africa. South America anybody? Who knows somebody in Antarctica? I feel like Antarcticans and I could bond over how we have none of the same animals despite the fact it's really cold.

Today Stump and I made the long journey into Anchorage. When we woke up it was 5 below and we left before the sun came up. We saw a bunch of mushers in Glenallen. Must be another village on the brink of total annihilation due to influenza again. Some people never learn. This is what the drive looked like when we weren't driving, but letting Sancho take a short walk.

Today is very notable in that Stump was born on this very date no less than 26 years ago! Congratulations Stump! To celebrate we went to town square, which they have turned into an ice rink and has a snowsculpture contest going on. Here is a Woolly Mammoth. Not the best sculpture in the contest, but certainly the one that most closely resembles a Woolly Mammoth.

 

I continue to fail at uploading a song. Why must these tubes be so difficult to navigate?