First Days of Work

The ground was crunchy and slightly less soggy when I walked across the yard at 6AM this morning. It was cooooold!!

The water supply up here is still frozen up so we have to trek past the cafeteria to the hangar to use the bathroom, shower or get a drink. Usually we're only in our cabin at night anyway, since the stove is also not working and we just use a space heater in our bedroom for warmth.

Today we managed to get up on time and so we were able to get in showers before leaving for work. Yesterday was a different story. Somehow our alarm didn't go off and we woke up at 6:25. We flew to get ready and made it out the door at an amazing 6:33.

We feel so blessed to make our hour-and-a-half commute through scenery like this every day!

Even more, we are so grateful to be making the trip twice a day together. Once we get to the office, we don't usually see each other until lunch, and then not again until it's time to go home. That's a whole lot more than most couples, but still less than we've been used to, so we're extra-glad to see each other at the end of the day. :)

We get into Anchorage at 8AM and Jonathan heads into the shop while I hang out in the office. This is my very first job and pretty much the only thing I remember about my first day is a general feeling of being overwhelmed. Today was much more successful. :) I answered phones, took reservations, accepted payments, weighed and labeled freight, counted passenger lists, and other miscellaneous tasks. There is no way I can explain how complicated organizing and keeping track of everything is because I barely understand it enough to function there now. I'm learning it all very fast though.

On our way home today we ran into some very unexpected weather. Snow! A lot of it too! By the time we got back to the ranch it was coming down in flakes so big they reminded me of cotton candy. I'd never seen anything like it...especially in May! We're beginning to wonder if there is more than one season up here in Alaska. :)