Fun Fact FRIDAY! (Well, Saturday Now....Oops!)

Well, things got busy yesterday and it completely slipped my mind that I forgot to post another "Fun Fact Friday." I apologize to all our readers and faithful "Spicey Subscribers." You see, due to our news about moving, Bob and I are always thinking and shopping for items we will need but don't have access to in the village. Last night, on one of our errand trips into town we stopped at the only clothes store here and guess what? We ordered CARHARTS! Oh My!

Ok, so most of you probably don't know what Carharts are. It's a brand name of heavy duty work clothing. They especially make really warm, arctic quilted lined pants, jackets and overalls. Well, when I moved here, everyone told me I should get some Carharts, but I refused. I thought they were ugly and too rugged for me. There would be no need for me to put on such masculine grubby wear! We went in the sore and bought some more thermal underwear (long johns) - aren't you glad you're getting this info? Is this sharing too much with you? ha ha! And we both decided to try on some Carharts. I have to say.....man, were they comfortable and WARM! Now here's the kicker.....they were work overalls! Oh my! This is so sad, but they are soooo useful overhere for so many things! So, since we are both midget sized people, we had to special order our sizes in overalls. Soon, I'm sure, you will see some hysterical pictures of Bob and me in our Alaska Outerwear for the bush! But, until then, here are two random pics of what Carharts are....yikes!


When we left the store, I almost cried as I said to Bob, "I've gone from Ann Taylor clothing to Carharts in less than one year! How depressing!"

Ok, now to the random facts......

• In Barrow, the sun does not set from May 10th until August 2nd!
• 15 species of toothed and baleen whales are found in Alaskan waters.
• MOST towns and villages in Alaska are accessible ONLY by sea, air or dog sled!
• The coldest recorded temperature was in Prospect Creek in 1971. It was -80 degrees!
• Alaska is 429 Xs bigger than Rhode Island, the smallest state.
• The vegetable growing season is ONLY117 days long (and that's really in the warm sunny vallies near Anchorage).
• There are more bald eagles in the state of Alaska than in all the other US states put together!
• Alaska's oil accounts for 18% of all the oil produced in the United States.
• Alaska is larger in area (land mass) than all but 18 of the world's nations!