Just a Few More Days...

It's almost that time of year when the daylight stops getting shorter. This graphic is from the site gaisma.com where you pick your location and they show you infographics such as this. Right now, we are the very light grey line on the right side just above the Roman numeral XII or twelve for December. The orangish color is dawn and the purplish area is dusk. The yellow is sun above the horizon. In about a week our slide to the shortest day is over and we start to pick up daylight again. Today, we have 3:48 of “daylight” and the shortest day wi be 3:42.

Many folks up here have commented that it barely feels like winter as the temperatures have been pretty mild. It looks like next week that trend may change as the forecast is full of negative numbers. But all were happy that the days will be starting to get longer soon with Spring right around the corner. I mentioned in my last post that I don't seem to be enjoying the Fairbanks winters too much. Maybe I need to start doing some outdoor activities again.

No riding on Friday due to the temperature. A few days ago it was a couple of degrees below 0°F but today it was getting into double digits. I'll pass.

Another "impulse" trip to Costco. I went in for butter for baking and left with a few more things including a new printer. The last PhotoSmart Printer was dumping ink all over the place. It's another HP inkjet printer but only has 2 cartridges instead of 5 so I'm hoping that the cost per page is lower. Plus, it was $90 off so the new printer plus another spare set of ink cartridges was less than one set of 5 cartridges for the old printer.