Living in Alaska is great.

Carmen and I have been having  a great time up here so far despite the following:

• 40 below-zero temperatures
• forgetting to plug the car in on a 10 degree day and then wake up and it’s 30 below (cars don’t like starting when it’s that cold)
• feet of snow falling in one day, plowing, then getting more snow
• having a roof that needs to be shoveled – fortunately I pay someone to do this (he he)
• paying $200 a month for power (JUST power, not gas)
• paying $675 for 210 gallons of heating fuel each month until probably May

What’s that? $675 for heating fuel! Yep, that’s right, even though we make gas up here it is still very expensive and our house is not at all heat efficient. I am seriously thinking about getting us some of these or selling a kidney to pay for heating our house. I mean, I have another one right?

All in all though, life is good and we’ve been doing a lot of green things since we moved here, we just haven’t been posting about them but we will soon I promise. These green things include:

• joined a group to promote sustainability
• joined a group to start a recycling program where we live (currently there isn’t one)
• made reusable gift bags for christmas
• saving cans to take to the metal recycling company
• convincing my mom to save cans too

See! We’re still trying! We’re still just trying to get settled up here.