Tangled Thoughts

This morning I checked my email to see that Amanda had sent me a short list of things she found online called “You know your from Alaska when…”

• You measure distance in hours. 
• You’ve had cabin fever. 
• You know several people who have hit a moose. 
• Your school classes aren’t cancelled because of cold. 
• Your relatives/friends think you live too far away for them to come visit you, but keep asking you to come see them more often. 
• October is the month of your highest income.
• When you answer the phone and it’s a wrong number, but you know the number of the person they were trying to call off the top of your head. 
• Your idea of taking a load off is emptying the firewood out of the back of the truck.
  
• You take off your shirt and your arms are as pale as your legs all the way to your wrists. 
• Travel luggage consists of ice coolers (or fish boxes) wrapped with duct tape. 
• You like your neighbors. 
• You think it’s normal for a town to put all the businesses on one side of the road.
• Your monthly veterinarian bill is more than your own medical bill. 
• Instead of plugging in your freezer, you’ve just move it to the front porch! 
• You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Alaska.
  

Today, I am thankful for Alaska.  For being able to call this beautiful place home.  I love to travel, and I love to see new places – but there is always something about this place that will hold a special place in my heart.