It is here

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This is a little more like it; the more the more we like it.

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Lovely! Alas, we have reverted to wet, here in the metropolis, so navigation is no fun.

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Inspiring

I have them, yes, somewhere in the bottom of the closet, where they'll do the most good!

I'm not familiar with crowberries, but apparently they grow in this region, since they are used by the Dena'ina people. Save a glassful for me.

We are now experiencing what I have dubbed "crapitation."

Crowberries look like this:

About the size of green peas or a bit smaller.

We use a gadget like this for picking them “berjatína” (berry picker):

You run the tines through a patch of berries and the berries roll into the cloth bag.

Then the berries are cleaned, boiled and sieved and the juice is mixed with strong alcohol and some sugar.

The result is a pleasantly sweet but deceptively strong liqueur-cum-schnapps.

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At long last, more than two months late, after the long thaw followed by bare frost for two weeks with rime for just a few hours: the very first show this winter.

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Better late and little than never and none.

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Inspiring

Ours has gone away again for the moment but a tree got blown down in a gale the other day.

So we got a fine Christmas tree and plenty of logs to burn.

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Still no show here, for another fortnight it seems. It should have been here six weeks ago. A very long autumn.

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She must have quite some views, Peter (unless the drifts cover the windows after the storm).

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Indeed, Peter.

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At my daughter's yesterday, before the storm:

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Ah, I forgot your (present) lack of logs.

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Yule forgive us if we're stumped.

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Thank you, Steve and Peter.

Has either of you lit the Yule log?

1800 feet up is quite far away here.

Half an hour till midnight, no more joining in the shop today.

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Inspiring

Has either of you lit the Yule log?

Nope. Ours is geothermal and therefore doesn't burn very well :-)

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Still no show.

Maybe two nights with dry frost a week from now, then thaw again, with more Scottish mist. No use for the studs yet.

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Inspiring

It's still here since last time. Studs and frozen windscreens in the mornings. Blowing a gale right now.

Must've been some strong westerlies recently for Scottish mists to drift all the way over to Denmark.

Glad Yule everybody.

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