The sun's coming up. It's a little after 9am. I think the temp is probably around 10 degrees. Another nice day in Anchorage.

This past weekend was good. Fairly productive. We got our Christmas card photo taken. Can't post it here... At least not yet. You lucky folks on the Christmas card list will just have to wait to get yours in the mail! The photo shoot when smoother than expected however. Not so easy to wrangle this group into cooperating all at the same time!

In addition to the photo shoot, we also erected the "truckport". We reinforced the connecting poles with Stephen's favorite tool -- duct tape. He discovered that it's difficult to use duct tape while wearing gloves. But on the other hand, ungloved hands freeze quickly in our area, especially when working with metal poles and duct tape. So he became a rapid duct tape applicator.

It went a little like this:
Wrap joint with duct tape. Tuck tape under arm, shove hands in pockets of wool pants for 30-60 seconds. Repeat.