Updates (with Camera)

Well, Sarah may not have a camera to post updates with, but I do. Last weekend, I stopped by Altus, OK to pay Tom and Michelle a visit. Actually I stopped by to see lil' Benjamin but don't tell anyone. I was able to spend a couple of days with them before I arrived at Fort Lost in the Woods, Misery, I mean Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. We had a great time as you will see in the pictures below. 

Michael and his "little" sister, Michelle.

Michelle and Benjamin. He is 14 months old.

Michelle and her sweetheart, Tom.

The entire Conroy Clan

Tom & Benjamin

Benjamin and the Sunday Morning...nap?

Chow time!

Benjamin looks so tired...

Updates

Michael took the little camera with him when he went down to Missouri for TDY, so I can't post any pictures on here, but since I was sitting around doing nothing anyway, I figured I would let everyone know what's been happening up here.

For the past week, the temperature has been hovering around zero or below. Mostly below. I just looked outside now at noon and it was only 3 above. When your working night shift, those belows can be pretty cold, especially if your outside a lot.

What am I doing on night shift all of a sudden? My shop had a big shipment come in--9 trucks and thirty 20 foot containers of all the ammo Eielson will need for the next six months or so. While it was coming in, we had to work around the clock and I was one of the lucky ones to pull the night shift. It wasn't that bad, though. At least it wasn't the normal routine we'd get back in the shop. Once all the trucks came in we got to scrape all the hazard labels off the containers; 4 per container. When it's past midnight, the temperature is around -15 and you have a razor blade that's so dull it wouldn't cut paper, it makes for an interesting night. Happily, we got some new blades though. We got all the labels scraped off and went home around 3am instead of 6 like we were originally planning. That's all over, though, so it's back to normal come Wednesday. (We have Monday and Tuesday off for Veteran's Day.)

I was told about a week ago that I'm in the deployment bucket that begins leaving in December, but as of right now, there are no taskings for Senior Airman. If I had gotten that Staff stripe, though, I'd probably be going. Michael and I are praying that a Senior Airman tasking doesn't come down. I did enjoy going to Baghdad three years ago (wow was it that long?) but I'd rather stay home this time and work on being a wife. :)

Not much else is happing up here in the frozen north. I think I saw some moose tracks out the bathroom window this morning. They were spaced about as far apart as human tracks, but the shape of the print is all wrong. If it is a moose, ol' moosey was within two feet of the window.

Well, Michael should be back on the fifteenth. Until then...

Tag!

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Laura tagged me today. I usually don't keep these things going, but I thought it might be fun. So, lets see, what are seven random facts about me?

1. At last count, (back in April) I had 120 something frogs in my house. The count has grown quite a bit since. (probably about 90% are mine)
2. I tell myself stories and often act them out.
3. I write down some of my stories and hope to one day have a full novel.
4. I get very goofy when I'm tired.
5. I can't stand doing the dishes. Touching dirty dish water grosses me out.
6. I can read a 300 page (or longer) book in a day. I get so involved, I tune out all the rest of the world and sometimes don't even stop to eat or sleep. Michael keeps me from getting that involved, though.
7. My mind works a hundred times faster than my mouth so sometimes I stutter when I speak and I don't like speaking to people I don't know.

I don't think I'll tag seven people, mostly because I don't like chain emails (or in this case a chain blog). Maybe just my sisters, Becky, Rachel, and Elizabeth and Michael's sister Justine. I'm not sure how to put the links to their blogs here, but their blogs are in the list on the edge my blog.

Miscellaneous stuff

Ahh, snow. What Alaskans have for seven months out of the year. We had snow on the ground when we came back from our trip to Colorado, and except for one day when it warmed up to 50 degrees and everything melted, we've had snow ever since. I doubt we'll see the ground again until late April. That hasn't slowed the cat down any, though. She still begs to go outside every day.

I can't decide if she's trying to help me write my story or if she's just making up for the fact that she can't find any mice outside since the snow fell.

"I've been working on this problem for the past hour and I still can't figure it out!!!" Michael has been taking an Algebra class. It's the last class he needs before he can get his Associates degree through the Community College of the AF.

Just a random self portrait of me since I put on a picture of Michael. I had to look at him to get myself to smile for the camera. :)

Colorado Beauty

We just got back from a week in Colorado; where the Autumn colors were at the peak and the temperatures were about 80 degrees the whole time. It was a way to avoid the bare trees and dropping Alaska temperatures a littlelonger. Michael even ended up with a bit of sunburn.
Fall colors reflected in a pond near Scotland Trail on the Grand Mesa. Another view of the beautiful scenery on the Mesa.

Sarah's Grandparents stopped in for a visit as well.
This young buck was about 30 yards from the house one day with a half dozen does to keep him company. There was also a good-sized buck that hung around, but we never saw him except at large distances or after dark.

Don't we make a great couple? We think so too!
Sarah's folks posing in the shade of some vibrantly colored aspens.