Cookout at -4 F. (-20 C.)

The menu: pepper crusted grilled garlic pork chops, scalloped potatoes, organic red chard with garlic, all complimented by Abyss barley wine. The food and the barley wine were consumed indoors with the heat on.

Driveway

from ADN.com:

• Anchorage: Sunrise at 10:14 a.m., sunset at 3:42 p.m., for five hours and 28 minutes.

• Fairbanks: Sunrise at 10:59 a.m., sunset at 2:41 p.m., for three hours and 42 minutes of sunlight.

• Ketchikan: Sunrise at 8:12 a.m., sunset at 3:18 p.m. for seven hours and five minutes; that's assuming few enough clouds to actually see any sun.

Hoar frost

Well, it's been cool here (less than 10 F.) and fog moved in a couple of times last week. The result was hoar frost. It is indeed a winter wonderland. Everything is luminous. Snapped this pix after work tonight.