Alaska flashback….these are a few of my favorite things

In 1965 Julie Andrews sang a song entitled ‘these are a few of my favorite things’ in the show Sound of Music now 53 years later I am using those words to garner hits on my blog so you can hopefully enjoy a smile of a few of my Alaskan favorite things.

Of course we start with the obvious for Alaska
for some reason I always like the winter better than summer

well maybe not quite as cold as that.

 

Then we have the fact that whenever I drove in winter

the roads had very little traffic on them

In Texas I have come to enjoy indoor plumbing

but miss those winter walks in Alaska

 

Then there are those times
when I walked to the outhouse

and I lost my way

 

Though cold in winter
we still found time to go outside and have some fun

the outhouse races… fun or just cabin fever

 

..but the number one thing I miss about Alaska in the winter

is how the angels paint the sky at night