June 27, 2007
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COLD
Okay, you say, I am in Alaska and cold weather should come as no surprise. Maybe surprise is an overstatement, but dammit I noticed the chill this morning when I went to the outhouse. I noticed it enough to look at the thermometer. It was in the thirties (F) and the sun had been up for a couple of hours by then, after having been down for only about four hours. End of June, beginning of July is the warmest part of the year here. This morning felt like August: foggy and chill. The fog has burned off by now, but the breeze coming in the window is still too cool for such a sunny day. It’s weird.
My friend lupa mentioned a sense of not-rightness about the characterization of my announcing my protected posts as, “tacky, actually – sorta like lifting my skirt just a little to flash my underwear.” She is correct. I seldom wear a skirt. The last time was about four years ago. When I did psychic readings in a booth at festivals and fairs, I’d dress in long skirts, but everyday wear for me is, and has been for my entire life, jeans or sweats. I just thought the image of flashing from under a skirt was preferable to the mental picture of me dropping my pants.
This reminds me of one of the first times I ever saw Jewel on stage – Jewel? Know who I mean? The formerly Alaskan singer-songwriter? Yes, that one. She lifted her skirt repeatedly, proudly showing the new pretty panties underneath. She was about three years old at the time, performing at the Alaska State Fair with her parents, the folk-gospel duo, Atz and Nedra Kilcher. Did you know that Jewel’s last name is Kilcher, and that she has been onstage literally her whole life?
But I digress. I displaced Doug here with the promise that I’d be brief. After he finishes his current project and goes to bed, I’ll probably write the next installment of memoirs. I seem to be on a roll there.
Comments (4)
I believe she is the cousin of (I’m totally going to butcher this name) Q’orianka Kilcher, from The New World.
What is it about talent coming from the North?
Hey, never thought about the concept of flat not being level. Hard to eye a surface to determine if it is level if you don’t have a bench mark to look at sides of a plot. Good idea about the tadpoles, I hardly every see toads down here anymore, and turtles and nearly extinct. When I was a little boy, you could not walk barefooted at night because you might squish a frog. Cool down here at night too, but it gets warm in the afternoon. Too early to determine yet if it will get hotter this summer. Catching some Chinook, had salmon last night, and the run is not to bad. Bigger salmon come up during the fall run later around the end of August. Garden seems to be pulling out of it dreadfully dried up looking stage and may produce soon. No fires here other than a few arson brush fires. Real problem with arson here, $10,000 reward to turn arsonists in. Well on to work. Later.
Bahaha re: dropping drawers… I love Jewel.