A real Alaskan summer

[glacier_kitty]

This summer is the COMPLETE opposite of last summer..warm (though we did have some warm days last summer like on the solstice and the 4th of July), dry, hardly any storms and rain, huge fires..woww. Even if the Wood River fire advances toward Fairbanks we have the Tanana River as a natural barrier and it could be hard for the fire to get over it cause it's so wide and well..it's wet haha. Maybe this'll mean the winter will be less cold too?

Woww..the record temp for today is 99. That's when you go swim in the river haha



Me with Aunt Cindy at one of the botanic gardens in Texas haha


Today's trivia: The word ampersand is a corruption of "and per say and." "&" used to be recited in the alphabet in school. The children slurred "and per say and" into "ampersand"

Comments

[anna-mathe.livejournal.com]

I never wondered about the origin of the ampersand, but now that you say it, it's actually quite neat. :) But mostly I'm commenting because it still makes me so incredibly happy to see other people listening to Ayreon. Woo!

[glacier-kitty.livejournal.com]

Yes I found that trivia fascinating lol

Yay hehe one of my LJ friends got me into them..they have some pretty sweet songs (like "Merlin's Will" and "The Castle Hall")

[anna-mathe.livejournal.com]

Into the Electric Castle is my favorite of their albums just because of the slight cheesy factor - did you know Fabio from Rhapsody did one song for them?

[glacier-kitty.livejournal.com]

Yeah..he sang on "Into the Wormhole" haha

[foxydanish.livejournal.com]

I had NO idea about the ampersand trivia...that's very intriguing.

OMG 99 anywhere is pretty scorching hot haha. GO SWIM IN THE RIVER! :D