another sunny day in the great north. tk is out of town for a final fishing hoorah before the rivers ice over. secretly this is just an excuse for him to drink whiskey, smoke cigars and play poker with steve, rob and andrew. not sure why they think they have to drive to the kenai for this, but whatever.
so it's a quiet weekend at home for truman and me. this morning we slept in, then went to the dog park, then to dog class, and then to my office. fun times were had by all. when i got up i thought it had snowed last night, but i think it was just really heavy frost all over the ground and trees. truman was a little alarmed by the change, but he adjusted after a few minutes.
i don't know what we're going to do when the dog park gets all snowy and icy. i'm actually seriously considering buying a pair of snow shoes so i can walk around with him. how cool would that be? pretty cool, admit it. but that's a little ways off still.
tonight i'm going with my friend catherine to see ladysmith black mombazzo in concert! yeehaw. i've never seen them perform. in fact, i don't know if i've ever really heard them outside the paul simon concert. but it should be pretty great.
it's a funny thing about living up here -- whenever there's a national act that comes through town, you pretty much have to go. in san francisco or minneapolis, there's so much live music and other stuff going on that we rarely ever took advantage of it. we probably go to more stuff like that here than we did there. curious.
anchorage has two pretty good organizations that bring live music up here -- whistling swan, for folk, and the anchorage concert association for bigger acts. last weekend we saw man of la mancha, which was a lot of fun. we also had tickets for, but had to miss b/c of a wedding, soul singer bettye lavette. my friend jeannette tells me our seats were great and betty rocked the house. ugh.
coming up we'll see bill staines, lucy kaplansky, adrienne young, the duhks, and some other shows. it's good to have things lined up through the winter. our other winter plans include:
* an overnight in girdwood (home of AK's olympic-class ski resort) for my firm's holiday party. we've never stayed at this place (Alyeska), but it's supposed to be very posh. and as an added bonus, they offer middle-of-the-night wake up calls if the northern lights come out. how cool is that?
* a week in phoenix for christmas. nothing says holiday spirit like the desert, but all my siblings will be there and i couldn't say no to a week out of the subzero temps.
anyway, that's the news from up north. i'm working on a trial right now, so doing a lot more work than much of anything else. not sure when that'll let up, but overall my hours are still more reasonable than those of my friends who lawyer it up in the lower 48. or maybe i'm just trying to make myself feel better....
Posted by cmandala at October 14, 2006 02:53 PM