The cost is largely the facilities to house the chickens during the winter, and then getting the eggs to people while protecting them from breakage or freezing. When it may be a half a day by snowmobile to a store, packaging is very important. At least you don’t have to worry about the ice cream melting.

It is all about transportation and freeze protection in Alaska.

The current reality is worth avoiding if you can, but that takes a lot more money than anyone I know has.

The fabric of my reality tonight is that I’m bone tired but cannot seem to sleep. What is up with that? Tomorrow will not be fun. But yeah, I just thought reality avoidance was largely a local phenomenon with our crazy people in Virginia, but after reading these posts apparently it’s worldwide.

[…presumes that you know what a “yellow-dog Democrat” is…]

Is that the one where you’d vote for a yellow dog before you’d vote for a Republican?

It why I like to visit here (and why I missed it). “Like likes like” after all. 😉 LOL

Not only Homes Steve, also every Motel & Hotel room across the USA and most of the World. It’s why it’s the No. 1 Best Seller! Not; as a certain organization (and no, not the Mafia, but close) would have everyone believe; because millions of people have bought it to read. As far as I have seen, some did buy that book to read, but generally only the bit’s that agreed with them, or justified their actions. 👿

They moved the Quest a few years ago when people starting running both races in the same year. That is a relatively recent phenomenon.

If it is fleece, the dogs will wear it. They’re colorblind, so they don’t care, and when fresh eggs are two dollars apiece, you can appreciate what everything costs in Alaska.

Truth be told, Steve, there aren’t many people in Florida or Texas wearing that particular type of fabric. They don’t believe it exists.

Oh, indeed, Juanita. For many years, being “a little nutz” was my stock in trade. In those years I was The Yellow Doggerel Democrat. But saying that presumes that you know what a “yellow-dog Democrat” is…

In any case, I just searched my city public library for The Fabric of Reality, and they don’t have it. So no dogs will be clothed in that fabric!

“Two weeks older and deeper in debt …”
“St Peter don’t you call me, ’cause I can’t go – I owe my soul to JoAnn’s Fabrics and Crafts ….”

If they could just figure out how to protect the dogs from moose and snowmobiles in the winter, and cars in the summer.

“Ya clothe 16 dogs… an’ whaddya get?” …

Thank the good Dog it’s over, with all dogs alive!

The powder snow really slows things down for everyone, and that wind on the coast makes rolling out of the sleeping bag even harder to do.

After 48-hours most of the puppies will want to do it again. Remember, Lance won the Quest and the Iditarod when there was only about a week between them, and using the same team. The ability of these dogs to bounce back is truly amazing.

The Quest is more of a volunteer, community effort. It isn’t as polished, or as media centered as the Iditarod. There aren’t nearly as many checkpoints, but there are individuals who open their cabins to mushers passing by.

It was noted that Dan Seavey cut 7 days off his time when he ran in the second Iditarod nearly 40 years ago.

Alaska is nice from mid-April through May, and late August and September. In between there is no real night, and it can get hot. Sleeping is a problem.

Mushers get carried away, and this is one of the few times they see a lot of people at the same time. As for the blankets, there is a picture of a musher’s dogs covered by fleece blankets that the musher’s mother made for him – they are baby blue with penguins on them. At lot of these choices are made by what wasn’t selling at the fabric store, because it takes a lot of fabric to make coats or blankets for 16 dogs. It is unlikely you will see many mushers in GQ or Vogue, as their styles tend to be a bit eccentric, and everything is very expensive in the North.