Author: annemarieathey
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Day Eighty
It was so coooold out there yesterday. It’s always cold, but sometimes it’s extra and noteworthy. At about 6PM it was -36F, but with the wind chill it was -76F. That’s cold. The people who have wintered over before have made it known to us newbies that the worst weather of the season is on…
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Day Seventy-Nine
After the excitement of finding my missing sock on Friday morning, I bundled back up and headed back over to the Berg Field Center (BFC) at the proper meetup time. I’m not going to lie, I ventured across town with much more enthusiasm the second time around, the found lost sock was seriously a BFD.…
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Day Seventy-Eight
It’s my second day off (we get one two-day weekend a month) and I did not hurkle durkle today. I was going to-that was the plan as of yesterday, but I checked my email before I went to sleep and there was news in my inbox. There was a break in the weather which allowed…
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Day Seventy-Seven
When I started toying with the idea of wintering, I was having lots of little conversations about it with people who had wintered and summered before. They all said winter was their favorite and I would agree. It’s a much better life down here during the winter. The conversation that sticks out is the most…
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Day Seventy-Six
This is a little late. I am in a rut for the words. The rinse and repeat cycle is in full swing. It’s my day off and I am lounging as usual. I went down to the galley five minutes before lunch ended to grab a plate of food. I wore a ball cap since…
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Day Seventy-Five
The Castle Rock trip was postponed, again. It was -70F out on the ice shelf…so while I can’t wait to see the sky from out there, I was not sad to miss that level of cold. It’s -33F here in town and with the wind chill -54F. Cold, dark and windy. In other not so…
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Day Seventy-Four
Ain’t got no words today. I slept in til the last possible moment of being able to get any work done that needed to be completed before the store opened. I grabbed a very quick lunch. The topic of discussion at the lunch table was the weekend premier of the Barbie & Oppenheimer films, neither…
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Day Seventy-Three
The extra cold, cold streak continues. We dipped in and out of a condition two today. It was -31F and with the wind chill -59F. My face was pretty much instantly wind burned when I stepped outside. Brrrr. When it is this cold out it’s typically pretty chilly inside too. I had a space heater…
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Day Seventy-Two
What a difference a day makes. Today was such a better day than yesterday. I actually smiled today, haha. Often. No longer feeling lowkey homicidal, I was also super productive in the stockroom of the store. I mentioned yesterday’s grumpiness to someone and they shrugged and said, ‘angry August is upon us’. It’ll be interesting…
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Day Seventy-One
You know how we all have that voice that lives in our head? Like the one you are hearing right now, as you read these words. I don’t know about ya’ll, but that voice can be so exhausting. Sometimes I hear it and I am like damn, that is good stuff, you need to write…
The Whole Wide World 