Hey all, Festival Fairbanks cam is back up!

xpipelyner-Thanks, it’s definitely great to be back home where I belong, I'm certain now I couldn't live in the lower 48 permanently again, I can visit, but not live for sure, I have permanent Alaskan fever, lol, take care everybody

boreal..I live in south suburban St. Paul, Eagan is my suburb. We do have that Lyme disease in Mn. & Wis. outstate. When I had my stone removed New Years Eve, they went in with that "claw" & got it. Finally caught up after 8 pages. TT, hope you're back improves; I'm off to my chiropractor with mine right now before one of those exciting safety meetings at work. At least they're feeding us today. Touch of winter here, 11 with a little wind. Take care; DD, nice to have you back! Jon

Hillbilly, talk about having fun it sure looks like I'm going some Tomorrow some time. All kinds of blood in urine, and I've got a very strong feeling that it's a kidney stone that's hung up. This sounds outrageous but I've literally passed several hundred very small ones, and have had to have them blown up four different times. The last time a Radiologist looked at my X-rays he was very clear and concise in his reading saying "Lots of Kidney Stones!" I'd much rather them blow one up instead

don't answer the phone just because we also at times don't want to talk to anyone no matter who it is. We have those times when we just wish to have each others company without even thinking of talking to anyone else. Please don't take it personally if we're not answering the phone as we're like that with everyone no matter who it is as we just want to be alone with it just being the concept of "Us." & that's what we need at times is just "Us." Hope you have a pain free night.

Grany, this was one of those nights when we turned the ringer off on the phone. We have a friend that's a real alky burner, and she called here 8 times Tonight. We knew ahead of time that she'd been drinking again as Pam talked to her This Afternoon. When that sort of thing happens we have got to turn off the ringer just to save our own sanity. When it got this late we knew that she'd probably passed out already. So when we checked calls we saw where you'd called as well. Sometimes we just

Hillbilly, love some of the things that you write, & sometimes I'm not sure if I'm really reading something into some of them or just how it's meant. But that's also the sign of someone who's a good writter with the way that you use words. It's like you know how to comfort as well as inflame in the same message. It's like with Grany however she does know how to communicate, spelling and grammer be damned. Sister "Butch Monica" at Our Lady of Perpetual Guilt Catholic School would tell us that

Fox---I've noticed in my area,that there have been a LOT of Doves and Skunks here lately.I've never seen so many Doves and Skunks! Dove hunting in September is a pretty big thing in my neck of the woods.Usually we see the Skunks begin to come out more and more this time of the year,but not like this.Come to think of,the past 2 years when we had those back to back colder than normal winters,I barely saw them at all,so maybe theyre enjoying the warmer winter as well,this year.