Article on the birds of Creamer's Field
Cute little buggers, aren't they?
The weather has been lovely the past few days. Sunny, but cool. The Alaska Range looks amazing--crisp and white and angular against the clear blue sky.
Although we have long days (the sun swoops below the horizon for four hours or so, but it never gets dark), the sun still never climbs very high, because of our high latitude. It rises at a shallow angle in the Northeast, then circles around the entire sky, and then dips below the horizon in the Northwest. A consequence of this is that the sun is frequently in your eyes.
I'll confess I get irritable after a while, especially when it is hot. *&%$ing sun in my eyes! *&$%ing heat! *&$%ing mosquitoes! *&%$ @$%* *&%^!!!!
But then I go indoors and I'm good. :)
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So with the sun up most of the day, does the temperature stay pretty constant? That must be something- you probably don't have to run your heater too much, huh?
And what's your heat source anyways up there - oil? pellets? wood?
No, we unplugged the oil stove for the summer. But the temperatures do still go down a bit at night and stay cool through morning. The delta is maybe 20 degrees F. In Winter, however, the delta between day and night can be 0!
We have both an oil and wood stove. The oil stove is on a programmable thermostat, and the wood is of course manual. Just throw a few good logs in every few hours to offset the cost of oil! Some people have pellet stoves, but then you have to buy pellets. Firewood is expensive, too, but our landlord does so much building he always has scrap.
There is something good about that landlord :-)
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