Welcome
Welcome to our little spot on the web. We appreciate you stopping by this is mainly for our family to keep track of our oh so busy lives. This site will grow and adapt to better fit our needs as time permits. As you probably guessed we are an Alaskan family, me, my wife, and our children, with a lot of family members living in various states across the nation
About me I am Paul Grimsley husband, father, son also the creator of this site I am currently in the Alaska National Guard and work full time as a DOD civilian, which keeps me very busy. some of the things I enjoy doing are working with computers, my coworkers call me a geek as I have a server rack with a virtual environment a 24 tape backup solution and about 8 terabyte’s of drive space. I also enjoy the outdoors, fishing, hunting, hiking, and most of all riding my bike it is a Harley 1200 low.
About Pearl…….the wife will put something here
About Christina……………the daughter will put something here
About Saul…………………..the son will put something here
About Karl.........the son will put something here
Alaskan Myths:
“Alaskans live in snow year round” Um, no! Actually, it gets quite warm. Our summers average 70 degrees with it getting much hotter in the Interior by Fairbanks. It’s been known to be 90 degrees here. And with almost 24 hour sunshine in the summer by May, that snow melts off rather quickly!
“Alaskans live in Igloos” No, we don’t. See the above statement. We have modern houses just like the rest of the US. An igloo wouldn’t be practical here. It gets too warm in the summer and the snow does melt. Besides, we like the comfort and convience of modernization. Like plumbing, electricity and the internet. None of that is practical living in an igloo!
“Alaskan mode of travel is dog-team” While that is true in some parts of the bush where driving your average sedan is not only unreasonable, but impossible, most of us get around via car, truck, snowmachine and for those in Anchorage, we have the city bus as well. We don’t just “mush” everywhere or have to wear snowshoes when we go for a stroll. Refer to the above myth as well.
There are many others but these are some of the more common ones I have heard.