Snow on April Fool's Day 2009

Just a short note to show off the pictures of our April 1st snow. We woke up to about 5 inches of fresh beautiful snow. I must say the snow is always welcome. I think it is so pretty.. I don't like driving in it. Ketchikan uses plain pickup trucks with snow plows on front to keep the streets clean. We live up on a mountain/steep hill and we have to wait longer for the man who clears our streets. He is hired by the subdivision to keep the streets clean. I have already had one bad experience trying to go up the hill before it was cleared. One morning I took Carey to work(he didn't want to ride his Harley in the snow)and he assured me I would be okay driving back up the hill. Well I did just what he said, I started up the hill with my foot steady on the accelerator and had only gone a few feet when Annie and I got stuck. When I finally took my foot off the accelerator we started sliding back down the steep hill. Well after saying a prayer and telling Miss Annie we were going to be okay, and oh yes cussing at Carey, we made it backwards down the steep hill and waited for the man to show up with the salt and plow.

We are headed back to Round Rock April 24. We are also attending two weddings while we are home. My dear friend Bronwyns oldest son(Dan) is getting married May 9 in Pensacola, FL. Carey and I will be driving to Pensacola to help them celebrate his marriage to Kelly. Then, our neighbors Marsha and David Surles son(Jeff) is getting married May 16 in Austin. We will also be visiting in Sugar Land with Lindsey and family. So needless to say we are going to be on the road a lot.

Spring is trying really hard to spring in Ketchikan. The crocus are blooming all over town and they are just beautiful. I will send pictures next of the flowers

Carey and I will be staying in Ketchikan for the summer. After we return May 17 we won't be flying back to RR until fall. We are going to have my Sis and Don coming June 27, Heather and family are coming the middle of July(I think), my friend Brownwyn and husband Gary are coming the first of August and Carey's brother Donald and wife Peggy are coming the end of August. We still have opening for more friends and family so make your plans.

Better close and get busy.
love vicki

We are back in Ketchikan 3-14-09

Just a short update on our Alaska residence. We arrived back from the Christmas and New Years holidays on January 10 and six weeks later like clock work we left again for our three weeks in Round Rock. We just arrived back in Ketchikan, Saturday night March 14 around 8:30pm in the snow/sleet and high winds, needless to say it was a very interesting and scary landing. We are already scheduled to leave again in six weeks for Texas. This visit we will be attending two weddings, one in Austin and the other in Pensacola, FL. Now that Lindsey and family have moved to Sugar Land, Texas(southwest of Houston) our trips home are a little harder. We now share time between Round Rock and Sugar Land.

It has been a really hard lonely winter for me, but as always I have made it and now am looking forward to spring and summer in Ketchikan. We will leave April 24 and return to Ketchikan on May 17 and will be here for the summer and not leave again until fall. This will be hard on me since I have been home to see the girls and families every six weeks since we arrived last September. We have family coming this summer, Sis and Don will be coming for two weeks in July, Donald and Peggy will be here the last of August first of September and Heather,Jeff,Blair and Grant Walker might be here July 13 for I hope two weeks. We don't have a date for Lindsey,Rob and Miss Audrey Grace. I would love for any of our friends and family to come for a visit while we are here. Please check with us and get on our calendar for your once in a life time visit to Alaska. We would love to have you. Use Ketchikan as a stopping off place to go on up to Anchorage and see the glaciers and the other beautiful scenery in Alaska.

It is snowing here today and it's just beautiful. When we arrived back in January to 10 plus inches of snow, we were told it had not snowed this much in Ketchikan in 30 years. I'm so glad it waited until we arrived.

I will post some pictures and close for now.