Solstice is coming!

This is the week people.  The last week of the year that we are gaining sunlight. After the solstice this weekend we will be officially losing sunlight and it seems like summer is just getting underway. Spring seemed to start early this year, but it did linger longer than usual. That is how it goes up here. Every year seems to be different than the last. Nothing is predictable up here except the sun.  We are over 21 1/2 hours of sun above the horizon now, but it doesn't get "dark". It is more like a few hours of bright twilight.  You never get used to it.

This will be my first solstice since I moved up to Alaska that I am taking easy. Just one gig with some good friends from Austin, Texas that will be rocking up here at Foodstock over at the Howling Dog Saloon. Mr. Derrel Gleason and his trio. Texans and Alaskans are quite similar however everything is not bigger in Texas. This is a lie. :)

Finally got the bulldozing done on my lot. Several terraces, a house pad, parking lot, circular driveway / dirt track, and the beginning of my amphitheater. Now all we need to do is get a big loader in there to finish building the berm for the backdrop. It is fairly high now, probably 15 ft, but I am looking for more like 30ft+. After I let it all dry out a bit and do what touching up I can it will be ready for the loader. There is still a bunch to do until then.

Now time to grab my rake, dirt tamper, and unforutnately my chainsaw. The work never ends. Hopefully there is enough summer so I can get things done.