Downtime

There is not really that much to do in St. Michael.  For example the big event was the trip everyone took today to the post office before coming back to the school and getting back to work.  We have to find ways to amuse ourselves.  I am attempting to cook once and a while, see amusing.  I have managed to make food items that people will actually eat.  Never fear, I now have hot sauce so any future culinary disasters will be cleansed of with fire.

I have made tasty biscuits.

Tasty chicken casserole

Very tasty baked oatmeal 

 We teachers are all trapped together in our dorm.  We end up hanging out and figuring out which one of us is the best card player.  We end up playing for hours until we are too tired to continue.  We can't get sick of each other yet because it too early in the year.  Never know who you will need as a friend when your water pipes have frozen.

Rummy.  I am losing.

Really I think it is the person with the killer instincts who is best.  That person is named Ariél and she is sitting to my right.  Don't let that smile fool you, she will mercilessly take you apart at any card game you decide to play with her.  Luckily for comic relief there is a dorm dog named Boo-boo.  He is a giant dope.  I had to take 10 pictures of him and this is the best one I could manage.

Alaskan Coastal Breed i.e. mutt

Boo-boo Blooper

He gets a bath a day because he enjoys rolling in carcass and other very stinky items around the village.  Someday he will find a use, but so far he is a stinky, barky, shedding machine.  I leave you with a picture of an oncoming front and the rising sun, taking pictures of the sky is something I like to do in my spare time.  Red sky in the morning...

Shade is an option

Excellent walk to work