Tundra life

Well,
We had our Saturday school yesterday, it turned out to be a pretty good. Out high school girls basketball team had games here this weekend. Two visiting teams flew in on Friday afternoon and they played three games friday afternoon/evening and three games yesterday.

The weather is still chilly but MUCH warmer. Today is pretty nice with the temperature being about -18 and a windchill of about -25. Last Sunday was crazy, all the pipes in the school froze so our site administrator and maintanance man spent all day working on the frozen pipes. There were three houses in teacher housing that had no water. Kat and I were very blessed that we had water and had plenty to share with some of the other staff.
On thursday our house was a little chilly the furnace wasn't working properly, I guess there was some leak, the site administrator came and checked things out, and they got the heat working. When Mark (our maintanance man) came to look at the furnace he discovered a leak with our hot water heater and turned off the hot water--no big deal, we can live with out hot water for awhile. On Friday night our principal, called and said our sewer system was frozen....so we cannot use our water. It is great that we live so close to the school so we can just dart over there to use the bathroom and shower.

Last night, we came home exhausted...it was a long week (six days of teaching is too much :) ) We had a messy house, and we started playing baseball with balls of tin foil, and paper. Kat decided to start flinging things, using a spoon as a slingshot, she picked up a little ziplock bag of flour and was going to fling but decided not to. I dared her to fling it, and to make a long story short, we had a flour fight that entertained us through a power outage and for about an hour. :)

This week will be our first week back in the regular routine since before Christmas, and as Kat says "it won't be as long, we only have to work 5 days". Days are getting noticably longer, this morning, I saw a sunrise around 10, and it is still bright daylight right now at 4:00.

I will update again later this week, and add some more pictures. Have a great week. :)