Birch Hill looks mighty spooky this October..

Preparing for the Golden Days Parade tomorrow! If you’re in Fairbanks, come on downtown to see the floats and familiar faces, such as yours truly!

So one of my eggplants has a bud, which is really cool. It’s my first year growing eggplants in my garden, and boy was I surprised to learn that not only do they grow thorns, their flowers look like they’re from a nightmare realm. Just look at it!

Who’s my little chimichangita?!

In addition to teaching PE, I do some reading tutoring at my school. My 3rd grade boys and I had fun reading this - kind of a Malcolm in the Middle type chapter book.
I like that the boys reading it were engaged, asking questions, trying to predict what happens next. Good times!

It took a long time of lying in wait to catch this snapshot of Oaken in his true state - being a weirdo. Do not peer into his eyes, or else you will start hearing didgeridoos, see new colors, & you’ll wake up tomorrow with your clothes on backwards and a lot of dog treat charges on your credit card.

Nice! My in-town “hopper” here in Fairbanks is a single-speed Kona Unit fitted with 45NRTH Wrathchilds. I’d like to fit my gravel bike with Gravdals too, and might do that this Spring.

Sunday afternoon suburban cozycore vibes at our house today. House is clean, Zoya the dog is dozing, and the wife and I are enjoying the Great Indoors.

I’ll brag about something I did last week: I baked my own birthday pie. For the past 5 years, my mom has baked me a custard pie (following strictly an Irish-Catholic-American recipe my granddad loved). She’s been so busy this year I baked my own. If she asks, it was alright, but hers is better!

Not pictured: Zoya towing me for a 10km skijor.
Pictured: Zoya having the tired zoomies as soon as I tried to take a photo of her.

My winter’s projects are:
1. Study at least 2 hours a week on my Borough’s functions and issues around them so I can run again next year.
2. Enter Zoya the dog in at least 1 skijor race with me.
3. Scrounge for CDs to load music into my Walkman. The Library has been a great musical resource.

So, I love bikes. I love fat bikes. I finally saw a Surly Moonlander 2.0 in town, which has, purportedly, the broadest production bike tires on the market. 6” / 142mm wide, my hand for scale.

I'm here, fellow former Alaska Twitter peeps! I made the jump and like it here so far. For anyone new: my name's Garrett. I'm a teacher in Fairbanks, Alaska, into all sorts of sports and games.