Flat Anna's Alaska Adventures: Easter and Break-Up

I bet you were wondering what FlatAnna has been up to.. it's been kind of a long time between posts. We (the Johnsons) have been pretty busy trying to fit in the last skiing of the season. The snow is melting fast up here.. and with any luck, it will stay gone! We don't really get a spring in Alaska. What we get is called "Break-Up". You see, unlike a lot of places that get snow, once it snows in Anchorage in the late-Fall, the snow stays. We don't get snow, then it melts, then it snows.. we get snow. And it stays. And more snow comes. And the plows pile up the old snow which makes big piles of icy snow... Well, once the weather warms up (it's in the low 40s now, that is warm!!), the snow and ice start to melt. And it makes a HUGE MESS! Our roads are like rivers.. there is lots of dirt and rocks (what they sprinkle on our roads so they're not too icy) everywhere and there is nothing green. Just brown and gray. Muddy ice. Yuck. Anyway, we can live with Break-Up because we know that summer is coming....

Here is Flat Anna hanging out in our emerging front yard... we haven't seen the river rocks in a long time!