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An Alaska winter scene.
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Your wonderful art work has been featured in my [link] journal, "This Year with Andy, December 31, 2010"
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Thanks so very much Andy! By the way....I just LOVE your journals! I always look forward to the next one. I haven't had a chance to peruse your recent one well, yet but I will. It just looks SO interesting! How have you fared with all the rain? Hope you've had no problems at your place! All the best for the New Year! May you and yours be truly blessed! 
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I love the rain Anita. Although I live on a hill, mudslides don't seem to be a problem on this one. However, my wife's friend lives on a hill and mud flows cascade down her street with every rain because all the foliage burned up in last year's fire.
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Oh good....glad you're ok! Sorry for your friend though....I've been watching the news and it looks terrible! Rain is very different in Alaska, so I don't know if you'd like it as much. It rarely rains hard, but is a fine rain and when it's raining in the summer/fall it's cold. Well....it would be cold to you! It can get down as low as the lower/upper 50's and sometimes can go on for what seems like days.....and even us long-timers complain! It's not the kind of rain I grew up with where it would rain really hard, and was mostly warm and then it would completely clear up between rains and be really sunny. Then too it depends on the summers. In southcentral here we rarey have thunder and everyone always runs out to look since it's such a scarce event!
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Barbara complains when it gets down to the 50's! However, when it is in the 50's, she is able to hike with me without complaining. During the summer, she can only hike in the very early hours, otherwise, she gets overheated. So, it is a plus.
However, I am still bound and determined to get my stock portfolio to the million mark and not have to move to Alaska. I make more money identifying peaks and shorting the market. I'm good at peaks. On the other hand, Barbara is really good at identifying bottoms!! Together, we make a great team.
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I hope it works out for you so that you have a choice! It's always better to have a choice! Sounds like the two of you are a good team! Hey if you do so well at the stocks, you could have a second small home/cabin up here and just come when you wanted to spend a month or two waiting for the Aurora, or do some wilderness trekking in the summer or take in a snowy Christmas! 
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It is part of our dreams for future traveling to root ourselves in a particular country for a month and just live there. Probably, we'd rent a hut or cabin or apartment each time. It seems like a good way to really see and experience a place up close.
Currently, I've been buying inverse stocks into this stock rally. (Inverse ETF's make money when the market falls.) I'm expecting the Dollar to strengthen and the Euro crisis to resume. Both would knock the air out of our rally. I don't buy all at once, but buy each time there is a sharp rise up. Of course, if the rally sustains and never falls to my beginning point, I'd lose. So, it requires patience and a lot of nerve. Wish me luck.
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That sounds like a good way to do it. Oh good grief Andy - I could not do what you do! I'd be a nervous wreck! Not to mention the inability to grasp anything that has to do with math/sequential things! I DO wish you much luck!!
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It makes me a nervous wreck. It makes a wife absolutely nuts. As I go into an investment, it can go negative 10 to 30 thousand Dollars. You have to really believe in it and hold. When it finally yields the crop, you smile. I've asked her to just not look. Last year she badgered me and I sold at a loss and two weeks later, the event I was waiting for, happened. And I let her know it.
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Except for the moose and bears in the woods! I saw bear scat just a few feet away from the bridge, when I was out taking photos this fal!! I ALWAYS carry bear spray! Thanks for commenting!
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any way i can get this is 1920x1200? would be a great winter wallpaper
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Let me check to make sure the resolution is good enough at that size! Ill try!
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Purity of Essence.....
(You remember where this phrase originated?)
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Ahhhh....thank you so much for that comment Andy...truly appreciated!
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When you moved out of Alaska, you really missed it I see!
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How did you guess?
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This tells me Alaska must be a paradise. What about mosquitos?
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We have our share and when one is out in the wilds they can be plentiful! However....I've haven't noticed them bad here in town for a number of years. I've actually gotten bitten more when I visit my mom in N.C. then here in the city! 
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Your enthusiasm definitely shines through with the passion in your writing about living in Alaska. I have another question. How accepting are people? I mean, for example, we are not church-going people. Does that cause one to be ostracized? We are also not White/White, but rather Hispanic/Jewish combo. Any insights?
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Alaska is probably THE most accepting place you could live. Of course there are pockets of intolerance because you have some unenlightened/uninformed bigots everywhere and there are the far-right-wingers everywhere too but people here for the most part just ignore them. One of the many reasons I stayed here was because I wanted to raise my children where there was tolerance to ALL people regardless of skin color or cultural beliefs and I will assure you my children do not even comprehend how someone can be intolerant. The city here is VERY multicultural and in fact has a very active Hispanic and Jewish community. We have had a lot of people come up from California, Mexico and Central America. I had to learn a "get-by" bit of Spanish so I could communicate with some people I regularly dealt with. (of course I've forgotten it all now) Just recently I heard in the news that there are over 100 languages spoken here. We are after all, the "Air Crossroads" of the world at the top of the globe!
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This is very good to know. I have to admit, my stereotype was that Alaska had hoards of tough oil workers and lumberjacks who would beat up anyone who didn't look like them. So, this allays that vision!! I certainly wasn't expecting a multi-cultural society.
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