The End in Sight, So Warm, and Will We Starve?

Note:  I began this post a week ago and just finished it today. 

We're down to five weeks before we are done with our Alaskan adventure. We've mailed some boxes home already and we've thrown some stuff away. Also, we haven't ordered any more food for several months so the cupboards are starting to get bare. More accurately, we're running out of a diversity of food. We have tons of quinoa and jelly left but we're almost out of, for instance, peanut butter and cereal. We are still getting vegetables delivered every other week but we run out long before the next box arrives. This is all to say, the pickings are slim when dinner rolls around. The situation is as it should be as the alternative to this would be buy a bunch of food that we might not eat and then either spend the money to send it back to Portland or leave it here for someone else. We will probably try to scrounge a little food at the local stores but the shelves are often nearly empty so that can't be counted on. Anyway, no emergency but lean times ahead.  (Update:  I bought soymilk at the local store!  It was $9 but worth it. I also bought two boxes of cereal and some salsa.  Total = $25.00!)

Also, it's 41 degrees out right now. Additionally the sun is up for 15 hours (but seems longer with a drawn out twilight). The snow is starting to melt along the roads where it's thinnest but is still piled several feet in some inconveniently placed drifts.  (Update:  It's down to the 20s and more snow has been falling.  The wind has really picked up to.  When does winter end here?)

I think S and I are going a little stir crazy.  However, my job is all locked up for next year - it's different from the year before and I'll  write about it some time soon.  New jobs are being posted in the Portland area so S is on the job hunt.  Less than 4 weeks to go.