Aurora Borealis

These are some pictures of what I saw, but my camera couldn't take the images. SO, I googled images of the Aurora Borealis and joila, there is what I saw but somebody else took the pictures. Does that make sense?
OK.... This is what I saw. My camera only shot black, no light images EXCEPT the village lights of Brevig as shown in my previous post.
These pictures shows what the Aurora Borealis LOOKED like with my eyes.
I hope that explained what I saw and didn't see and found images.

Northern Lights !!!!!

This is a picture of the Aurora Borealis... otherwise known as the Northern Lights. You have to squint. Unfortunately you wont see anything because my camera couldn't take a picture of the beautiful green swath across the night sky. What you are seeing are the lights from Brevig. The Aurora Borealis is there, I promise. Thought I would share this with the world. Another Alaskan dream come true. ahhhhh

August Pix from Ron

Ron emailed these pictures to me when he arrived in August 2010. I got here about Oct 1, 2011. I personally haven't seen any reindeer alive, or the water without ice. Looking at these pictures, no snow or ice, and the water is as still like a mirror. Beautiful.

Since Christmas, the reindeer must be resting somewhere waiting to come out when it warms up again. Or in someone's freezer.

The pictures of the little cabins on the shore are referred to as igloos. In other words, their vacation residence. While the owners aren't there, bears have been known to claw their way into the igloo. Repairs are difficult to make. They have to go back to the villages, purchase the lumber and can take only so much up at a time by boat and it takes a long time to get enough material to do the final repairs.

For Oldies Fans - Who can remember

I'm a travelin' man
I've made a lot of stops all over the world
And inevery port I own the heart
Of at least one lovely girl

I've a pretty Seniorita waiting for me
Down in old Mexico
If you'reever in Alaska stop and see

My cute little Eskimo ME !! THE CUTE ONE !!

Forever Famous, INTRODUCING

ME

go to: www.google.com

choose IMAGES

type in Teller, Alaska

SCROLL DOWN.... AND THERE I AM, ME, FAMOUS, ON THE WEB, NOT A MUG SHOT, A REAL REPRESENTATIVE OF TELLER, ALASKA

TA DA

First of the Month

Ahhhhhhh, I am enlightened. I was at the school this morning and mentioned that the store has soda pop in stock. I hear a voice that said.... "it won't be there long, food stamps come out today." Now I know to shop, the last day of the month, And I think, just a thought mind you, I could be all wrong AND that has happened once or twice, a theory, that possibly the merchandise for the store gets the airplane space instead of the mail. hummmm. It could be a possibility. That will give me something to monitor on a monthly basis for fun.

THE PLANE, THE PLANE !!!!

THE STORE HAS FOOD!!!!!
Many have asked, do you have a store? Why yes we do, it is the Teller Native Store. It is hard to describe. Not like a Quik Trip or 7-11. It is .... a sometimes it has it store and sometimes it doesn't have it.

With the blizzard, there have been planes backed up waiting to delivery to the store. The blizzard is finally over, for now, and the landing strip has been flattened (it is snow that has melted a bit and graded to a nice flat surface) and the Bush pilots can now land the plane. I will have to post a pix of the air strip (not airport) another time. It is too far for me to walk to get a pix.

In the meantime, here are the pictures that many have been waiting for. The store front, complete with a ramp for the handicapped. By the way, that is the ramp that I caught my yak trax in and fell flat. My groceries flew across the ice and I couldn't get up. My yak trax (gives you traction) was caught in the grate that gives you traction. So in essence, I had fallen and I cant get up. I managed to just take off the yak trax and leave it in the grate. Then a man came out of the store, walked right past me, got on his four wheeler....2 feet from me. Before he started it I asked him if he could kindly help me up. Now he is about half my size. I asked him if he knows about leverage. He said yes, but he lied. He got behind me and sort of lifted me up. And no, I wasn't embarrassed, I was happy to be upright.

This store was EMPTY until a couple days ago, I mean EMPTY. I heard a rumor that they had "stuff" delivered" so I took a shot, went to the post office then to the store. OMG Not only was there some food, there was..... drum roll.....DIET COKE! And I didn't have the toboggan. I am heading that way again today, WITH the toboggan and hope there is some left.

You have to understand that soda pop, coke, pepsi, mountain dew, anything along those lines are literally like cigarettes in prison. You drink one, you pay it back, you can trade it, resell it, you have to hide it. NEVER SHOW HOW MUCH YOU HAVE, EVER. It is the most important average man's commodity here in Alaska, in the Bush, on the Tundra, on a spit, in the Village of Teller.






There is even a good junk aisle, like, Sponge Bob toys, Hot Wheels, Crayons, gloves, hats, masking tape, etc. Oh, yeah, and the frozen foods are in big chest freezers. You know, like the ones at home. I was going to take a picture of the one that has musk ox or reindeer meat, that kind of thing, but all that was gone. Either they sold it or they gave it to the dog guy.
Hi Ho Hi Ho, off to school, post office and store I go.